Responsibilities:
- Coordinate A&O projects and engagements, including scheduling, timelines, milestones, project status, and resource needs.
- Partner closely with A&O delivery leaders, project managers, consultants, and other stakeholders to ensure projects are appropriately planned and supported.
- Develop a strong understanding of A&O projects, terminology, technology, and delivery requirements. Ask the right questions to understand project scope, requirements, dependencies, and potential risks.
- Manage A&O scheduling using half-day and whole-day blocks, ensuring consultant availability and project needs are accurately reflected.
- Lead or facilitate regular project and resource coordination meetings to review upcoming work, assignments, scheduling conflicts, and changing priorities.
- Monitor the service opportunity pipeline to anticipate upcoming projects, scheduling needs, and potential resource requirements.
- Support initial project creation and validation of service, project, and resource needs.
- Coordinate resource assignments for A&O project roles in collaboration with Professional Services leads and project managers.
- Maintain visibility into resource capacity and upcoming demand, identifying potential conflicts and helping facilitate solutions that support business priorities.
- Communicate with customers as needed to coordinate project needs, manage expectations, and address scheduling or scope concerns.
- Identify when customer requests may be outside of scope and confidently ask questions or escalate concerns to the appropriate team.
- Develop working knowledge of the Microsoft security stack, including Microsoft Security, Purview, Intune, and Entra, and understand the terminology well enough to communicate effectively with technical teams and customers.
- Maintain accurate resource records and skillsets for Avertium consultants and contractors to support effective project staffing and scheduling.
- Support resource management activities for the A&O team, including monitoring assignments, timesheet data, capacity, and forecast accuracy.
- Support focused resource management for RED as needed.
- Help identify resource constraints, underutilization, or scheduling concerns and work with delivery leaders to recommend appropriate solutions.
- Support ongoing improvements to Professional Services project coordination, scheduling, and resource management processes.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of project coordination, project management, or related experience, ideally within a technology company, Professional Services organization, or relevant consultancy.
- Experience coordinating multiple projects, schedules, timelines, resources, and competing priorities.
- Experience working with a Professional Services Automation tool is a plus; Certinia preferred.
- Effective, clear, and concise communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Outstanding interpersonal and influence skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong conflict resolution and problem-solving skills, with the ability to confidently navigate competing priorities.
- Comfortable communicating with customers and managing project expectations and scope.
- Ability and willingness to learn technical concepts and terminology and develop a working knowledge of the Microsoft security stack, including Microsoft Security, Purview, Intune, and Entra.
- Ability to learn and support resource management processes, including scheduling, resource assignments, capacity planning, and forecast accuracy.