Project Manager

Our story

Strada is a technology-enabled, people powered company committed to delivering world-class payroll, human capital management, and financial management solutions to organizations globally.

With a team of more than 8,000 experts and over 30 years of expertise, Strada blends leading-edge technology with human ingenuity to help businesses across the globe design and deliver at scale. Supporting over 1,400 customers in 33 countries, Strada partners with customers at every stage of their journey, to help drive their vision forward.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s experience in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Strada is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

To learn more about us, visit stradaglobal.com

About the job

The Project Manager is accountable for all aspects of the project life cycle (initiate, plan, execute, communicate, control, close). Must be familiar with system scope and project objectives to effectively assemble the project team, assign individual responsibilities, and develop a schedule to ensure timely completion of project.

The Project Manager measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project. The Project Manager identifies and quantifies variances (in time, cost, scope or quality), performs required corrective actions, communicates status and risks to all stakeholders, and ensures adherence to quality standards for the project deliverables.

Responsibilities

· 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.

· 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