Senior Project Manager - Hyrbid Infrastructure

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Job Summary  

The CDW Senior Project Manager is a trusted consultant, providing project management expertise across multiple technology stacks and services. Projects are typically of medium to high complexity and incorporate mainstream, legacy and emerging technologies. The Senior Project Manager may independently manage projects where they mentor junior team members, or they may work within a large program under the guidance of Program Managers. The successful candidate balances scope, schedules, budget and understands how to leverage PMO tools and templates to drive successful business outcomes for the customer. This position works with mixed teams consisting of CDW engineers, CDW sales, other members of CDW cross functional business areas, customer staff and third party consultants. The CDW Senior Project Manager is a project advocate and relationship builder. They drive successful engagements through concise communication, negotiation, crucial conversations and leadership presence.  

• Use experience, skillset and methodologies to understand the client’s end goals and provide a consultative approach to ensure that the solution provided is appropriate for the client’s desired overall outcome and strategy. The Senior Project Manager uses those skills at a deeper level to align business outcomes with overall solutions with clear direction and guidance. 

• Plan, execute and deliver projects and programs that span one or multiple technical practices according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes clearly defining the work within workstreams and facilitating estimations project plans and work breakdown structures for all phases of projects.   

• Creates and maintains presence with all project stakeholders, including C-Level executives, acting as a CDW steward for quality. Dedicated to meeting or exceeding stakeholder expectations. Identifies success criteria and ensures that it is met by involving the stakeholders in key decisions and linking project outcomes to strategic business initiatives. 

• Negotiates project changes around cost, scope and effort to agreeable results with a sense of urgency. Understands the broader context of client relationships when negotiating. Seeks input/collaborates with Sales and Service Managers when necessary. Identifies outside influences that will impact projects and negotiates with those parties.  

• Independently manages medium to large sized projects requiring complex cross functional collaboration and management, adhering to CDW’s project management processes and methodologies. Has the ability to manage one to two Associate Project Managers or Project Managers during the course of medium to large complexity projects.  

• Accountable for project profitability. Track project budgets and resources and manage actuals vs. Planned hours against the resource allocation and budget. Timely reporting of project financials and budgets to stakeholders. Ties project outcomes to clients’ business strategies helping to generate additional new business.   

• Be a trusted consultant to your project team in all matters related to project delivery, CDW processes, and project management best practices and delivery, and work with team members to gather information and determine possible/probable impacts to the project, documents mitigation steps taken in troubleshooting and communicates these to the team and client. Establishing and managing all communication documentation for projects and ensuring the quality and delivery of documentation to clients.