Outsourcing Solutions - Project Manager

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Outsourced Solutions and Managed Services, Project Manager

RSM is a leading provider of audit, tax, and consulting services to middle-market businesses and entrepreneurs across a broad range of industries. RSM’s Outsourced Solutions and Managed Services team provides a strategic bridge between business development, practice leadership, customers, and internal operations.. We are currently seeking an experienced Project Manager for our Managed Services Practice.

The Project Manager role will be responsible for helping support success of RSM’s Managed Services Practice. The PM is responsible for planning, coordination, and execution of all aspects of assigned projects and will be responsible for providing operational support to the internal clients within the span of the project delivery life cycle, utilizing established PMI and RSM project management best practices and standards. The PM is responsible for assembling project teams, coordinating assignment of individual responsibilities, developing the project plan, schedule, budget, tasks, and deliverables to ensure timely and results focused project completion. During project execution, the PM will be an active participant in all aspects of the project and is also accountable for managing issues and risks, facilitating change requests, maintaining project financials, and providing status reports. The PM will apply broad, advanced project management principles and concepts to projects, contribute to innovation of new concepts and ideas, and continuous process improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Partner strategically with assigned internal clients (i.e. stakeholder, sponsor) to support multiple short- and long-term projects, simultaneously.  
• Identify and execute appropriate communication methods to provide the appropriate stakeholders with the status of projects.
• Schedule and coordinate project meetings, prepare meeting agendas, take and distribute minutes, and distribute follow-up materials.
• Consistently and accurately review and maintain documentation (i.e. project plans and RAID logs) to identify, evaluate, scope, plan, monitor, and follow up on active projects.  
• Continually identify, assess, monitor, and communicate the issues and risks of a project/activity to the appropriate stakeholders.  
• Operate in a self-directed manner identifying and addressing risk mitigation, process improvement, and support needs affecting the successful delivery of project.  
• Generate and execute project plans. Revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. Recognize the risk and determine the appropriate corrective action to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget and scope. Monitor issues and risk response plan.   
• Create and maintain project documentation. Complete assigned projects effectively and efficiently; and maintain a high level of proficiency by delivering high quality work on time; review own work and the work of others prior to completion. 
• Provide ongoing project support, oversight, and process adherence for assigned projects.  

 
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business related area or equivalent experience

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills 

• Demonstrated experience with project management software, specifically those applications supported by the firm   

• Ability to adapt to technology changes 

• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills 

• Ability to manage multiple project priorities 

• Strong organization, prioritization, time management skills, and attention to detail  

• Minimum of 3 years working in project/operations area with the ability to effectively manage multiple projects with moderate to high risk  

• Minimum of 3 years experience working with management level individuals, preferably within a mid to large size firm(s) or other professional services experience. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills; works well with a variety of work styles, able to handle difficult conversations with members of team and create “win-win” solutions for those involved  
• Shows motivation and initiative to learn and grow beyond project work and shares knowledge with team and applies past experiences and lessons learned to new situations.  
• Continually enhances and builds upon knowledge base of the project in order to update and inform leadership as necessary  
• PMP Certification  

The firm offers competitive benefits package, base compensation, and an employee bonus program for eligible roles based on individual and firm performance per program guidelines. Base compensation range is inclusive of all employees in this role and is dependent on geography and experience and actual offer will vary based upon these criteria

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