Principal Project Manager

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Anthology Inc

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Educational Technology Solutions • Blackboard® (LMS • Anthology® Student (SIS/ERP) • Anthology® Reach (CRM)

1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Venture Round on 2023-01

Description

• The Principal Project Manager is responsible for providing project management leadership for Anthology’s higher education, business, and government accounts. • The Principal Project Manager is a critical role that must be able to lead complex projects that require working across both customers and Anthology’s organizations, in both functional and technical capacities. • Principal Project Managers must employ highly developed relationship management, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills to build rapport across levels of the organization, developing a deep understanding of customer needs and acting strategically to build the partnership and recommend approaches and solutions to achieve customer goals. • They drive customer value by blending traditional project management principles and practices with an Agile approach in the right proportions to fit projects of varying size and complexity with the appropriate level of planning to provide the right balance of agility and predictability. • The Principal Project Manager takes full accountability for the proper and consistent execution of all projects that are part of their project portfolio. • Primary responsibilities will include leading cross-functional teams in the delivery of projects using agile methods with a high level of complexity, directly affecting Anthology’s strategy to meet technology and business requirements on time and within budget and with a high level of quality and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree • 8 or more years of professional services or equivalent project management experience • Strong oral and written communication skills as well as strong organization skills • Proficient in MS Office products including Word, Excel, Outlook, Outlook, and Visio • Advanced skills in successfully managing complex enterprise level projects to completion within a defined scope, schedule, and budget • Proficient with project management methodologies and processes including Schedule Management, Issue Management, Risk Management, Decision Management, Scope Management, Project Budget Management, Communications Management, Project Change Management • Demonstrated ability to manage complex enterprise level multiple projects simultaneously • Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a team to meet goals and objectives • Demonstrated ability to lead client project meetings • Highly developed written and oral communication skills to communicate effectively with all levels within the post-secondary higher education administrative structure • Highly developed client-facing skills, including proven listening skills and the ability to network with client staff • Ability to establish strong relationships within the organization to achieve results • Ability to learn new technologies quickly to explain Anthology products and services to clients and to assist with simple implementation tasks as necessary • Fluency in written and spoken English at CEF B2 level or above