IT Project Manager

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Oversee the execution of the portfolio of programs across NCR business divisions while ensuring the realization of benefits within the time, cost, and quality constraints. The incumbent will be responsible for fulfilling the role of project manager made up of globally distributed technical and business teams having internal and vendor resources to deliver solutions and services to clients. Interact closely with the business analysts, developers, internal constituents, and external vendor or customer partners to define the project scope and detailed project deliverables required by NCR project processes. Partner with subject matter experts to translate project objectives and requirements into schedules and tasks using knowledge of the technical components, architecture, business solution knowledge and Project management expertise. Assure proper conduct, documentation, and communications of assigned project engagements.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Facilitate the overall project across multiple teams
• Develops all project artifacts that a PM is expected to as per NCR PMO guidelines
• Creates and tracks program and project plans, milestones, deliverables, and status
• Prepares project status reports as needed by different stakeholders and leads project status meetings
• Coordinates with IT management, business managers, resource managers and the PMO manager for resource assignments, creation of project deliverables, issue resolution and escalation
• Complies with NCR project management methodologies as appropriate for the given project (SAFE, Scrum, KanBan, Waterfall,) and supports requirements from internal and external audits teams
• Maintains project budgets including monthly accruals and forecasts
• Overall responsibility to deliver projects within scope, schedule, and budget

Required Skills

• Advise peers and management the management of project scope, issues, schedules, requirements, resource assignments/allocations, deliverables, budgets, risks and communications.
• Provide leadership and guidance to multiple, concurrent programs and projects, while working in a global matrix-managed team environment.
• Identify and effectively resolve issues and conflicts within and among project teams. Conduct regularly scheduled program/project status and issue reviews.
• Ensure appropriate business and IT resources are engaged and committed during the program/project life cycle.
• Agile Scrum Master experience
• Have a good understanding of the PMI PMBOK methodology (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk Management, Procurement)
• Possesses critical soft skills and especially strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Detailed oriented and strong organizational skills
• Able to manage projects independently and lead multiple projects simultaneously
• Leadership skills in a matrix organization structure Required (we will build on this over the year)
• Strong understanding of MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize work, multi-task across many assignment
• Ability to assess the impact of new requirements on an existing set of projects
• Strong technical writing skills producing clear and unambiguous deliverables

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related degree program
• 3 years of experience in project management
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams in the execution of large, complex and concurrent IT programs/projects
• Agile Scrum master preferred
• SAFe certification preferred
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred
• Six Sigma Methodology Experience (Green or Black Belt level) preferred
• Strong project management, customer service and organizational skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative atmosphere
• Proficient with PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and translate high level objectives into detailed tasks
• Ability to prioritize work with multiple, simultaneous work assignments
• Ability to weigh business risks and enforce appropriate information security measures