Associate Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in the planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of client projects for AspireHR.

• Oversee smaller or single-module client projects with appropriate supervision.

• Manage specific project activities or workstreams within larger, more complex engagements.

• Create, maintain, and oversee project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.

• Track project scope, schedule, budget, resources, and progress; identify variances and escalate issues as necessary.

• Handle project risks, issues, actions, and decisions effectively.

• Coordinate project resources and activities across various workstreams.

• Facilitate routine project meetings and governance activities, including kickoffs, status updates, agendas, reporting, decisions, action items, and follow-ups.

• Relay project status, priorities, risks, issues, decisions, and upcoming activities to clients, project teams, and internal stakeholders.

• Maintain financial project information, including hours, budgets, and forecasts.

• Support scope and change management by documenting changes, evaluating impacts, and coordinating review and approval processes.

• Preserve project documentation and management artifacts throughout the project lifecycle.

• Identify dependencies, constraints, and potential delivery impacts while coordinating follow-up and escalation.

• Establish effective relationships with clients, project teams, and internal stakeholders.

• Assist in project transition, lessons learned, and closeout activities.

• Continuously enhance project management skills through coaching, feedback, and increasingly complex assignments.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in business, project management, technology, or a related field is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience.

• Around 2–4 years of experience in project coordination, project management, consulting, professional services, technology implementation, or a related field is preferred.

• Foundational understanding of project management principles, project lifecycle activities, and project governance.

• Experience in supporting or managing project schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, deliverables, and status reporting.

• Capability to manage defined project responsibilities and priorities with suitable guidance and oversight.

• Competence in organizing and coordinating multiple activities, deadlines, resources, and stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

• Keen attention to detail and precision in project documentation.

• Ability to identify and escalate project risks, issues, delays, resource constraints, and conflicting priorities.

• Understanding of project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, and change management concepts.

• Excellent organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and time-management skills.

• Ability to make sound judgments and know when escalation is necessary.

• Capacity to work independently while effectively collaborating with a larger project team.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• Experience with project management, resource management, collaboration, or reporting tools is preferred.

• Background in supporting technology implementations, SaaS projects, HR technology, SAP, or SAP SuccessFactors projects is preferred.

• Ability to thrive in a remote, client-facing, deadline-driven consulting environment.

• Demonstrated interest in advancing toward greater project management responsibilities.

• Optional certifications include PMI, Agile, or SAP PM.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time W2 employment.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Coaching, feedback, and professional development through progressively more complex project assignments.

• Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

• Employees-first culture.

• Collaboration with experienced Project Managers, Senior Project Managers, and PMO leadership.