Senior Project Manager

We motivate. We empower. We lead. We follow. We laugh. We succeed. ACS offers innovative and effective outsourcing solutions for clients around the world. We deliver higher quality, increased productivity, and lower costs. Can we do that for you? Sure we can. For business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO), ACS is not a product, we're services. We're people making technology work. We'd be glad to demonstrate the ACS advantage. Let us tell you about our world-class people, our company, and the "can-do" attitude that motivates us to deliver nothing less than the very best. Senior Project Manager Job Description:We're here to help.In 1988, ACS founder and Chairman of the Board Darwin Deason recruited a group of extraordinary information technology professionals and instilled a passion and energy we call hustle. We believe the impossible is possible, and that giving up is not an option.We're Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS), a premier provider of diversified business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO) solutions to commercial and government clients worldwide. Based in Dallas, ACS is a FORTUNE 500 company of 62,000 people supporting client operations reaching more than 100 countries.It would be hard for you to go through a day without encountering the products or services of our many clients in communications, education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, travel, and transportation.Senior Project ManagerMay perform one or more of the following:Responsible for all the project management activities, resources and tools.Responsible for project initiation activities including the initial resourcing, setup and project kick-off.Responsible for ensuring the correct mix and level of resources are available to support the project execution.Responsible for managing the project work plan estimating process in adherence to standards.Responsible for developing and managing the overall project plans and ensures compliance to standards.Manages the overall weekly reporting process including the weekly analysis of the updated project plans. Facilitates and prepare weekly slippage work-off plans.Tracks project performance against planned schedules (and milestones), hours and costs.Prepares formal Executive Dashboard or Client status reports and chairs the weekly status meetings. Responsible to allocating and following through on action items.Provides weekly status to senior management. Manages the overall change management process to ensure scope control is tightly adhered to versus agreed Statement of Work and other contractual agreements.Responsible for managing project processes for planning, issue management, risk management and reporting.Responsible for defining team members detailed Roles, Responsibilities, and Deliverables charts and aligning them with the work plans.Manages third party suppliers to agreed contracts and SOWs.Ensures adherence to defined project Quality Assurance processes and the rectification of quality issues identified through this process. Coordinates with technical teams to ensure required infrastructure is available to support project execution.Responsible for ensuring all contractual deliverables are completed against defined standards and quality reviews and formal acceptance and signoffs are collected (including final acceptance of project).Manages the project closure activities including knowledge transfer, lessons learned, client satisfaction and release of all resources / infrastructure.All other duties as assigned.ACS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not Discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, religion/creed, national origin, gender, or sex, marital status, age, disability, use of a guide dog or service animal, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by Federal or State law or local ordinance. People with disabilities who need a reasonable accommodation to apply or compete for employment with ACS may request such accommodations by calling or by sending an e-mail to accommodations@acs-.Job Experience:7 years project management experienceCertification in PMP, CCM, Six Sigma would be typicalExpected Travel Time: None