Job opening - Project Manager, Sr. Consultant at Kiersted Systems (New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Huston, ID) (telecommute)

During the past 25+ years, Kiersted Systems has been providing Legal Services to top corporations in the nation. Our consultants help companies and their attorneys on a broad range of issues. Indeed, in the highly critical and complex legal industry, maintaining long term relationships with clients is almost impossible without a solid quality of work. All that simply could not be done without a top team of dedicated professionals. Kiersted offers an environment where your talent and perspective matter and you can make a real impact.

As part of our Matter Management group you will work with our team of consultants, business analysis and technology experts to manage customized software solutions to help our clients understand and address their challenges in managing their legal information in an effective workflow process across their organization.

Responsibilities

As Project Manager you will be responsible for system imp! lementation projects including the detailed work of project planning, regular reporting, meetings and communication, following-up on tasks, identifying risks and keeping resources and efforts focused on the priorities and on-track.

Working in a matrix organization, you will be responsible for communicating project status and information to functional managers and executives so they can manage their readiness activities accordingly.

• Ensures the success of the implementation project.


• Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.


• Measures, tracks, and evaluates progress against the project plan, deliverables, milestones and required tasks.


• Defines technical scope and objectives of project.


• Develops project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources in conjunctio! n with the Functional Managers.


• Directs and coor! dinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget.


• Works with functional managers to define internal resources’ roles, responsibilities, and expectations on a project.


• Ensures project adherence to the Kiersted and Client Project Methodology.


• Oversees the agreement terms, deliverables, and all project documentation.


• Manages the Project Budget and Margin to within pre-authorized limits.


• Reviews status reports prepared by project team and modifies schedules and plans as required.


• Prepares invoices for delivery per company policy.


• Maintain proper billability of project hours.


• Ensures timely resolution of client and internal issues, and communicates resolved issues to clients and internal personnel.


• Ensures timely submission of project resources and revenue forecasts.


• Identifies, resolve! s, and documents client-side issues describing their significance to the project.


• Prepares project status reports and keeps management, clients, and others informed of project status and related issues.


• Manage the project scope and identify and responds to requests for changes from original scope.


• Monitors project results against technical specifications.

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