Project Manager (Hybrid)

A recognized entertainment organization in Florida is currently seeking an experienced Project Manager to join their growing team in Orlando. In this role, the Project Manager will be responsible for planning, leading, organizing and motivating the Agile and/or Waterfall Project teams to achieve a high level of performance.
***This is a Hybrid opportunity requiring the qualified professional to work onsite at least 2 days a week.***
Responsibilities:
The Project Manager will:

• Build a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, innovation and transparency
• Manage customer expectations for project deliverables, stakeholder communications, and ensure an effective execution of project governance
• Manage resource planning, project plan, budget, issues, risk and overall communication
• Manage scope to budget and work with product owners to prioritize enhancements
• Build project Work Breakdown Structures and determine level of effort for each task
• Provide a project schedule accurately estimating time and resources required to complete the project
• Manage the project budget - meet financial objectives by forecasting; preparing a budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; and initiating corrective actions
• Avoid risk by analyzing data, anticipating, identifying and mitigating risk factors; act quickly to determine problems and make decisions to solve them
• Assist development/Business Analysts to refine product functionality and product back log user stories
• Help to negotiate 3rd party SOW and manage external vendor deliverables
• Organize and communicate information to key stakeholders; provide weekly status reports, and communicate milestone progress
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field; or equivalent 6+ years of progressive responsibility in Technology roles focused on contributions to project deliverables
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models
• Strong knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
• Prior experience with managing, tracking and monitoring several projects at a time
• Career focus on Application implementations over Infrastructure
• Familiar with Project Management and software (IE: MS Project, Jira, MS Office, MS Visio, SharePoint)
• Solid problem solving and time management skills
• Great interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly organized

Desired Skills:

• PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent
• Working knowledge of general mobile technologies, architecture and trends
• Previous experience in the Theme Park or Hospitality industry
• Previous experience in Ecommerce and/or Marketing Projects