Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for the success of assigned projects in the portfolio, including documenting project progress, managing resources, and identifying critical path items. The project manager plans, executes, and delivers projects on time, within budget and scope in accordance with business priorities. This role involves end-to-end project management across multiple concurrent projects within the portfolio, ensuring all deliverables align with strategic goals, timelines, and quality standards. Throughout the lifecycle of each project, the project manager tracks project status and manages project teams to mitigate issues and risks. This role utilizes expertise and leadership skills to direct project resources and to ensure that project goals and requirements are met. Responsibilities/Duties

• Direct large-scale, complex projects that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Define, create, estimate, and execute project plans for project, portfolio and product prioritization and implementation; coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives.
• Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value.
• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria.
• Build, lead, and mentor multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles
• Monitor and enforce on-site schedules, milestones, and vendor accountability; facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout projects lifecycle.
• Create risk mitigation strategies to anticipate, assess and resolve project risks as they are encountered.
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the Firm.
• Prepare project status reports and present project performance updates to relevant business stakeholders.
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
• Identify technologies which can streamline and simplify the PMO process.
• Highlight project challenges and escalates appropriately.
• Manage projects, using aforementioned project management standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned
  
  Minimum of 6 years' experience managing IT projects ideally with experience in a law firm environment
• Experience managing new office build outs, office relocation and refurbishments, including overseeing multiple contractors would be beneficial.
• Excellent project management and team leadership skills
• In depth understanding of project management concepts
• Strong working knowledge of MS Project and other program management tools
• Understanding of software development lifecycles (i.e., Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, Iterative) including project initiation, mobilizing resources in a matrix environment, business stakeholder engagement, and transition to service delivery.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at a time.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Ability to anticipate problems, gather information, analyze, and make recommendations.
• Ability to work effectively across work groups.
• Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions in the moment.
• Focused and versatile collaborator who is comfortable under pressure, ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability.
• Strong knowledge of business objectives
• Proficiency in MS Office and related tools
• Ability to organize, prioritize, plan and multi-task work activities in a high-pressure environment
Physical Demands
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• ?Sitting: Remaining in the seated position, particularly for sustained periods of time
Preferred Skills PMP, Prince2, or CAPM preferred Required Education Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience required.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is one of the world's leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and has more than 1,000 lawyers. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe., Simpson Thacher is committed to ensuring that everyone can reach their full potential, irrespective of background, identity, or circumstance. We know that we are at our best when we bring together diverse experiences and perspectives. This is why we are focused on fostering a collegial environment which maximises collaboration, empowering every individual to thrive and succeed.