Project Manager - AAOS

You are a dynamic leader with a passion for driving cross-functional projects to success. Enthusiastic about leading diverse teams, you excel at managing resources, schedules, and budgets to ensure timely and within-scope project delivery. You thrive on independently overseeing day-to-day project implementations, guaranteeing quality deliverables while achieving business outcomes. Leveraging methodologies like agile epics, business requirements, use cases, and wireframes, you skillfully plan and lead project activities. You are eager to make a significant impact and drive successful project outcomes.

If this sounds like you, please read on!

The Project Manager serves a critical role within the Project Management Office (PMO).   This role is responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span cross-functional business teams, managing resources, schedules and budgets while ensuring adherence to the PMO’s standards and guidelines for project management and systems development delivery.  This includes the management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.  The Project Manager, PMO is also accountable for contributing to process improvement initiatives as it relates to project delivery.   

The role works independently and is accountable for project implementations on a day-to-day basis.  This includes ensuring that assigned projects produce the required deliverables of quality within the specified constraints of time, cost and/or resources while still achieving the stated business outcomes.    

Reporting to the Manager, PMO, the incumbent will possess a comprehensive understanding of cross-enterprise system implementations including the ability to plan and lead initiating and planning activities including requirements and specification elicitation leveraging the best fit methodology for the project including, but not limited to, agile epics and stories, business requirements, use cases, wireframes, etc.   

• Manages assigned projects that span one or more cross-functional teams; accountable for full project life cycle ownership; successful project delivery will include full system implementation from initiation to deployment.  

• Contributes to establishing practices, templates, policies, tools related to project delivery standards.

• Demonstrates a functional acumen to support how solutions will address stakeholder needs while aligning to best practices; demonstrates expertise in scope planning and management and requirements elicitation and management   

• Prepares estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of a project; manages the day-to-day project activities and resources  

• Participates in and/or manages the execution of feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders  

• Monitors, tracks and controls outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables  

• Develops and delivers scope overviews, status reports, project proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences including project teams, sponsors, senior leadership and key stakeholders  

• Provides detailed analysis of business needs to identify and document key requirements for technology systems and their success. 

Exemplifies the following essential values of the Academy: 

• Teamwork: Effective collaboration and team-focus to solve complex problems and drive innovation. 
• Empowerment: The authority, information, and skills to make decisions and drive results. 
• Accountability: Ownership of process and results that drive decisions and ensure implementation. 
• Mindset of Growth/Continuous Learning: Focused on and invested in self and staff development to become more adaptable, making the Academy more agile, innovative, and sustainable. 

Travel: 

• Up to 15 days per year

Qualifications: 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology management, business, project management, or similar. 
• 3-5 years of experience managing technology related projects involving custom development or systems integration projects.  
• 3-5 years of experience in a diverse business environment with demonstrated skills in supporting technology initiatives, project or program management, and systems design. 
• 2-3 years’ experience managing cross-functional, large platform implementation programs or projects  
• Experience working in a structured PMO a plus. 
• Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) required.  
•  Experience in a rapidly changing environment and ability to adapt to change while still maintaining a structured approach to program and project implementation.  
• Strong familiarity with project management lifecycle methodology based upon Project Management Institute (PMI) standards. 
• Familiarity with Quality Assurance processes and procedures.   
• Experience working across multiple System Development Methodologies including waterfall, hybrid, agile, SCRUM, etc.  
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and understanding of web technologies, object-oriented programming methodologies, and technology architecture paradigms.   
•  Understanding of relational databases, technology architecture, content architecture, and enterprise platforms. 
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to present complex ideas and concepts.  
• Excellent documentation and writing skills. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Visio and MS Project.  
• Experience creating business process, business requirements and specification level detail documentation. 
• Experience using web-based collaboration tools. 

Desired:  

• Experience with customer relationship management systems or association management systems.  
• Previous work experience with medical associations or not-for-profit organizations. 
• Experience with development management tools such as VSTS or JIRA. 

Salary Range: $100,000- $110,000

Join us in shaping AAOS’ success! If this resonates with you, apply today by sharing the following:

-Clearly communicate why you are the ideal candidate for this role, providing specific examples and experiences as proof points.

-Resumes must be accompanied by a cover letter with salary expectations to be considered. 

Please note: 

This hybrid position is based in Rosemont, Illinois and is open to applicants who are able to commute weekly to this office.

Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of work visas.