LatAm - Senior Project Manager

We currently have a career opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team located in Guadalajara - Mexico.

The Project Manager role is intended to manage and adapt continuously to project goals. This highly collaborative role will need to work closely with all departments, including account, creative and technology teams, in order to deliver quality solutions to our customers.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Represent the team in front of client executives and major stakeholders
• Escalate, communicate, negotiate, persuade, etc. on the needed aspects of the client, team and company areas of scope
• Be actively 'in charge' of the team in a hybrid work environment (waterfall-agile)
• Own and maintain the mapping of product features vs sprints vs assignees and provide visibility to the client
• Reporting and visibility of relevant aspects of the program, product and project to client and company stakeholders
• Team's timecards approvals
• Month-end client invoicing processes
• Project Budget management - preventing any budget issues, follow up on people performance and hours consumed, manage over-time needs/exceptions, etc.
• Manage the project assignments and support shift coverage according to the client and team needs
• Manage a Global team of 30-40 people based in US, India and Latam
• Manage quarterly budgeting cycles with the client

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager, Project Leader, Program Manager, Project Portfolio Leader, or equivalent.
• Experience managing systems for project and people management such as timecards approval, budgeting, project invoicing, people monitoring, etc.
• Background of IT (is a plus)
• Experience with IT industry projects and exposure to Technology within the projects from a high-level perspective.
• 5+ years of experience supporting client process optimization and change management. (is a plus)
• Experience managing program and product roadmap, features, planning dates and milestones, assignees, sprint pre-plannings (is a plus).
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management.
• Proven experience in all domains of project management including working in an Agile project environment.
• Negotiation and problem-solving skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills.
• Advanced English level.

Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.