Project Manager

Project Manager Opportunity - Elantis

Are you looking to grow with a company that puts people first? Where you collaborate daily with colleagues to create real solutions? 

Skyrocket your career with Elantis! Certified as a Great Place to Work®, Best Workplace™ for Today’s Youth, and Best Workplace™ for Inclusion, we're looking for a passionate and driven PMO Lead /Project Manager to work with our team.

Here are some of the great things you can expect from Elantis:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive extended health benefits, fully paid by Elantis.
• Mentorship, training, and ongoing opportunities for development to fuel your career growth and build your expertise.
• Relaxed environment with a casual dress code, community involvement opportunities, and lots of fun social events.
• Any excuse to celebrate our successes with lunches and treats- which is pretty often!
• Free access to an on-site fitness facility.

The Ideal Candidate

At Elantis, employees’ cultural fit and alignment with our values are the most important factors in selecting a successful candidate. We are guided by our Core Values of Own the Experience, Focus on People, and Do the Right Thing. You’re a great fit for our team if you: 

• Want to work closely with a talented team to create innovative solutions for customers and contribute to a vibrant work culture.
• Proactively offer solutions, think outside the box, and are confident in bringing your ideas forward to overcome obstacles and make a positive impact.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and willing to seek direction if you need it.
• Are a lifelong learner. You’re curious, learn quickly, and enjoy mentoring to help others grow their career while you grow yours.
• Can move easily from project to project and juggle competing priorities with ease.
• Want to create an exceptional experience for customers, colleagues, and yourself.
• Enjoy collaborating with colleagues in-person to share ideas, solve problems, and celebrate together.
• Proactively providing support and mentorship for your team with regular check ins, additional learning, and offer guidance for best practices.

The Role

As a PMO Lead / Project Manager at Elantis, you’ll be responsible for:

Project Management Office:

• Manage and maintain the company-wide schedule for all resources and all projects.
• Forecast resource requirements to inform Solution Architects and Director of Service Delivery on future hiring and training needs.
• Schedule the project delivery team to meet utilization targets of 70%.
• Apply industry best practices, tools, and techniques to improve Elantis’ project management capabilities.

Team Management:

• Conduct regular check ins with the Project Managers reporting to you.
• Support your team members to successfully deliver projects.
• Assign your team to projects.
• Interview, hire, and support retention of your team.
• Ensure your team members are at least 70% billable.
• Support your team in growing their careers through formal and informal training.

Project Management:

• Manage concurrent multidisciplinary projects using both Waterfall and Agile practices.
• Accurately manage and report on all aspects of project financials, schedule, scope, and risk.
• Assign resources to projects in consultation with the Practice Leads / Solution Architects.
• Monitor and control development and implementation activities for delivery.
• Balance agile practices with adherence to contracts and ensuring clients receive expected value.
• Facilitate presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
• Negotiate and document project changes as needed.
• Support Practice Leads / Solution Architects in guiding customers to project decisions.

Actively support Elantis culture:

• Do the right thing:
  • Actively ensure clients and staff have an excellent experience.
• Proactively identify potential improvements and alternatives to client solutions and internal processes.
• Ensure clients get value for their money.
• Leverage and improve “the Elantis Way” (including sharing solutions, templates, etc.)
• Focus on People:
  • Work collaboratively with others.
• Coach and support others.
• Make coming to work fun!
• Own the Experience
  • Be a lifelong learner.
• Assist PMs and Solution Architects to ensure successful project delivery.
• Reliably complete assigned tasks.

On the technical side, here are some of the skills we’re looking for:

Consulting Skills

• Articulate, excellent communication skills.
• Able to confidently advise clients on project deliverables and milestones.
• Proactive and driven.
• Work within estimates and highlight risks to meeting estimates before exceeding them.
• Able to context switch and manage multiple client commitments.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking ability.
• Support the Practice Leads / Solution Architects in leading the project delivery.
• Able to manage billable time and work efficiently.
• Able to handle customer escalations and ensure appropriate account manager involvement.

Job Qualification and Skills:

• Five or more years’ experience in managing complex technology projects.
• Experience in consulting roles.
• Ability to manage multiple customers and projects typically ranging from $50-$500K, with a combined multimillion-dollar budget.
• Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, enabling you to present to C-level customers and the Elantis leadership team. 
• Experience creating detailed WBS from sales proposals and working collaboratively to ensure all delivery team members understand their assigned tasks.
• Ability to control project scope and deliverables by assessing risks, ensuring strict change control, and leveraging exceptional stakeholder management.
• Meticulous entry and review of timesheets and generation of recurring status reports.
• Familiarity with Project Online, SharePoint, and Microsoft DevOps.
• Current project management certification (PMP or CSM preferred). Other complementary certification paths are a plus (e.g., Prince2, Prosci, Lean, ITIL, etc.)

Personality Traits:

• Energetic, enthusiastic, curious, and articulate.
• Lifelong learner who is growth-oriented. Capable of and have a desire to learn quickly.
• Self-motivated and a self-starter.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and seek direction if they need it.
• Adaptable to change and “go with the flow.”
• Business minded (business acumen).
• Entrepreneurial mindset: driven to get things done.
• Customer focused with a genuine desire to help people and make a difference.
• A team player who has a genuine desire to help the team.
• Creative, think outside the box, and confident in bringing new ideas to the team.
• Take pride in their work and have high quality standards.

Elantis gives you the opportunity to make a real impact in your work with clients and our internal team.

We welcome you to apply today! This job posting will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. Elantis will be screening applications as they are received.