Project Manager at Alight Solutions LLC | The Muse (2024)

• Manages projects from conception to production, ensuring delivery is in accordance with budget, timeline and is of the required quality standards to meet client expectations.
• Develops and manages detailed project plan. Align stakeholders and team members on the plan and manage execution of tasks to achieve project goals.
• Makes project decisions and recommendations to management about schedules, prioritization, and resource allocation with input from others as needed.
• Works closely with Resource Managers/Team Leads to ensure adequate allocation of resources.
• Measures project performance and progress using appropriate tools and techniques, identifies and quantifies variances, performs required corrective actions, and communicates to all stakeholders.
• Documents high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints. Develop and track risk mitigation and issue resolution plans, recommend and implement approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate or minimize project and commercial risk.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule and costs and ensure project plan is reflective of authorized changes as defined in the change management plan.
• Interfaces independently with all functional and business areas/ groups affected by the project, including senior and/or executive management
• Communicates and reports status to executives and all other stakeholders e.g., Status Reports, Executive Briefings
• Manages the project budget, working closely with the finance team to oversee and report project financials - including estimates created during the funding/change request process, the on-going allocation of financial resources, and the regular reporting of the state of the project financials.
• Employs project management best practice methodologies working within a framework that includes process definition, templates, tools and Alight standards
• Works with third party providers to deliver contractual commitments
• Drives process improvement initiatives within the project management domain. Captures lessons learned throughout and during the closing of a project.

Accountabilities

• Ensure compliance to Alight standards is adhered to across the projects being delivered
• Ensure issues are escalated through the appropriate channels for support in resolution and to raise senior management awareness
• Share best practice and key learnings to support continuous improvement
• Deliver project reporting and maintain systems of information in accordance with Alight's standards

Competencies

• Commerciality - Be commercially aware
• Technical - Understand the technical solutions required for delivery
• Project Management - Demonstrate and educate Project Management methodology

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent work experience required
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (or working toward certification within 12 months) or PRINCE2 certification or equivalent preferred

Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and customer service skill.
• Experience communicating effectively with high levels of management and direct client contact.
• Experience managing complex projects with tight timelines and multiple key business priorities to conclusion while maintaining high client satisfaction.
• Experience with global customers/team members.
• Resourceful, confident under pressure, and proven problem-solving skills.
• HR Consulting, payroll and outsourcing industry experience.
• Vendor management experience.
• 3 - 5 years of PM experience; 7+ years of professional experience
• Demonstrate and Educate as a Proficient Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Project Management process and tools.
• Experience communicating effectively with different levels of management and direct client contact.
• Experience with software methodology development processes.
• Ability to create presentations and write business cases under some direction.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines managing multiple priorities.
• Project budgeting/costing knowledge.
• Ability to solve more complex problems and deal with a variety of work situations.
• Proficiency with MS Office.
• Fluent in English (written, oral).

Desired Skills

• Experience with professional Project Management tools: MS Project, SmartSheet or equivalent

Physical Work Conditions

• Virtual, or office work environment
• Willingness and ability to travel, dependent on project assignment/client location (10-25% on average).

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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