PROJECT MANAGER

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Company: Ultimate Software
Location: Remote

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Description

Here at Ultimate Software, we truly put our people first. We strongly believe in teamwork, and we encourage and trust our people to reach higher, learn more, and live up to their potential. Ultimate is ranked #1 on Fortune’s Best Places to Work in Technology for 2019 and #8 on the 100 Best Companies to Work For list in 2019. Ultimate is also ranked #2 on Fortune’s 75 Best Workplaces for Women and #5 on its Best Workplaces for Diversity list. Learn more about US here: http://www.ultimatesoftware.com/careers

As a Talent/Benefits Project Manager for Ultimate Software, you will be responsible for planning, managing, and successfully implementing new and cycle-based projects for all of our customers. You will manage a high volume with low to medium complexity projects simultaneously, effectively communicating and negotiating resource, cost, and timeline information to our internal and external customers. You will exercise leadership and organizational management skills to ensure all assigned projects meet time and cost estimates. The Project Manager works with assigned team members to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget while meeting the customer’s stated and implied business needs.

Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify and communicate project work plans, scope requirements, timeline, and project resourcing requirements to appropriate stakeholders
  • Revise and communicate project timeline, as needed, to meet changing situations
  • Manage projects using Ultimate’s methodology standards
  • Ensure that both customers and team members are meeting their project commitments in order to assure a successful customer implementation
  • Communicate, using a variety of mediums, project status, risks, and options to both internal and external stakeholders
  • Will be the point of contact before the project timeline is set up and will be the one talking to the client prior to scheduling the kickoff calls about training, access to the customer portal or any other question the client might have.
  • Will be in contact with the core DM/PM about any issues during the core project that might cause a delay on the Talent/Benefit project, to ensure customer readiness
  • Coordinate data conversion activities that impact the Talent products

Required Qualifications:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong, effective decision-making and multi-tasking skills within stringent deadlines
  • Knowledgeable of the human resources/recruiting/benefits discipline
  • Flexibility and adaptability to meet changing scope and resource situations
  • Strong organizational and time management skills

Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training:

  • 1-2 years Project Coordinator/Manager with an HCM background
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • PMP Certification preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to manage high volume of projects simultaneously
  • Proven consulting experience partnering with customers and executives
  • Experience in a product-based software development environment a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Organized, detail oriented, accurate and responsive
  • Self-motivated, quick learner
  • Established Team Player

Physical Requirements:

  • Able to work on a computer for long periods of time.
  • Able to talk on the phone

Travel Requirements:

  • 15-20% travel, as required

This job description has been written to provide an accurate reflection of the current job and to include the general nature of work performed. It is not designed to contain a comprehensive detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employees assigned to the job. Management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.

Ultimate Software will reasonably accommodate employees with disabilities as defined by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other appropriate statutes. If you are an applicant and need a reasonable accommodation when applying for job opportunities within the Company or request a reasonable accommodation to utilize the Company’s online employment application, please contact accessibility@ultimatesoftware.com.