Project Manager

POSITION OVERVIEW

The IT Project Manager is responsible for defining, planning, executing, and implementing high priority projects that deliver intended outcomes. This role requires a strong collaborative communicator with technical knowledge, project management expertise, and an ability to lead cross-functional teams. As a member of the IT Delivery Team, the IT Project Manager will collaborate with senior leadership, technical and subject matter experts, and project stakeholders to design, implement, and support the systems and service that enable our employees success. The IT Project Manager job duties will include project planning, project execution management, risk management, navigating organizational complexity, managing project budgets, and project resource management.

RESPONSIBILITES:

• Responsible for the overall planning, budget planning, coordination, execution, control, and completion of assigned projects.
• Develop detailed work plans, including project milestones, risk assessment and management plans, and project timelines.
• Identify, schedule, and assign project activities, tasks and milestones.
• Provide direction and support to team members.
• Manage communication with project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Implement and facilitate change management within assigned projects.
• Drive decision-making as it relates to project activities.
• Identify, document, escalate and address project risks and issues.
• Provides project status updates to all stakeholders including Executive leadership.
• Effectively and independently communicates routinely to a range of stakeholders including executive level leadership, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders, actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
• Assists in business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs/RFIs, estimates, and schedules.
• Remove barriers for the project team and stakeholders.
• Create a collaborative project teamwork environment acting as a bridge-builder between departments and teams.
• Program management as required.
• Utilizing a combination of agile, lean and waterfall principles to successfully complete projects.
• Other tasks and activities as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors degree
• 8+ years of IT experience
• 5+ years with project management experience
• Sound knowledge of project management methodologies
• Customer-centric in spirit and in execution.
• Proven and robust experience driving cross-functional, high impact, high visibility projects.
• Able to navigate complex organizations and ambiguous projects.
• Comfortable influencing others, facilitating teams, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly.
• Critical thinker, and thought leader, able to know when and how to work autonomously and collaboratively.
• Skilled active listener, excel at summarizing information, and identifying key take-aways and areas of focus.
• Passionate about fostering healthy communication, inspired leadership, effective management, and outstanding teamwork.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to lead, motivate and direct project teams.