Implementation Project Manager-20001650

Description

 

 

You will serve as customer liaison on projects to assure success throughout the entire customer life cycle. You will also interact with clients/customers, staff, management, and applicable departments at SAS, leveraging domain and industry expertise, knowledge of the sales cycle, and the concept of business solution selling.

 

Your duties will include acting as a customer liaison, fully managing customer expectations; supporting large-scale projects and managing smaller scale projects using win/win negotiation principles. Also included in your duties will be conducting assessments, presales, and implementation activities that require matching skills with specific agendas, services, requirements, and tasks; identifying and reviewing assignments of team members for these activities, including adding domain, administration, and contracts expertise; working with account management teams as needed to assist with development of proposals for software and services deals; completing risk assessments and participating in deal review sessions; assuming fiscal responsibility for projects and ensuring that quality assurance and test plans are included; developing, communicating, and tracking all aspects of project plans with the project team; resolving conflicts between the project and other organizational units; and overseeing activities with respect to customer satisfaction, change and knowledge management, as well as the overall summary for each engagement.

 

Qualifications

 

 

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in a business, marketing, or computer science-related field
• 2 or more years of experience in a customer-facing project management role
• Experience as project manager in a software development environment
• Travel as business requirements dictate at management discretion (Approximately 50-75%).

Equivalent Essential

• Associate's degree in the same fields plus 2 additional years of experience in the areas stated above ~OR~
• High school diploma (GED) plus 4 additional years of experience in the areas stated above

Additional

• MS Project expertise
• Knowledge of Project Management Practice procedures and tools
• Excellent facilitation skills, including meeting content/agenda and proactive/creative management of issues
• Thorough domain and industry expertise, as well as an understanding of internal processes and organization
• Good problem-solving, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to select appropriate methods to gain win/win resolutions and lead negotiations
• Ability to work independently and with a team

Preferences

• Experience with full-cycle project management of software development projects in a hosted environment
• Experience working with remote resources
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification

Additional Information

SAS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V

The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience.

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.

Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.

SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information
from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

  

Job

 Consulting

Primary Location

US-NC-Cary

Other Locations

United States

Organization

 SAS Institute Inc.

Job Posting

 Nov 25, 2013, 11:14:01 PM

Unposting Date

 Ongoing

* Classification Full-time