The Public Sector Project Director is responsible for all phases of planning and execution of public sector enterprise software and services procurement, as well as implementation oversight. This role requires executive briefing skills, strong technical writing and organizational skills, group facilitation and conflict management skills, as well as strong working knowledge of the public sector procurement process.
Requirements
- Ten plus years of recent experience leading the solicitation and vendor evaluation of large, complex public sector IT projects, preferably ERP-related
- Significant delivery management experience, including managing teams at all project phases, exemplary track record in successful client relationship management and multi-project oversight on multi-year engagements
- Ability to independently manage client relationships, including executive sponsors and senior project management to ensure client satisfaction throughout the engagement
- Demonstrated experience in successfully leading all phases of a public sector vendor evaluation and selection, as well as implementation
- Experience developing and creating public sector procurement documents (e.g., RFPs) and related acquisition documents for software and services
- Ability to provide high level expertise across a broad range of business and IT-related subject matter areas
- Experience with public sector procurement policies and procedures
- Experience performing cost benefit analysis regarding new IT purchases
- Experience managing large IT budgets
- Experience negotiating and managing software and services contracts
- Public sector experience (minimum of five to seven years at multiple client engagements)
- Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to understand business terms, to all levels of management including Executive Leaders
- Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities with high attention to detail
- Possesses strong analytical skills and good listening skills with ability to effectively coach and mentor others; must be able to lead by influence
- Exhibits effective team/teambuilding skills
- Ability to make decisions and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis