Senior IT Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager

Salary: Open + Bonus

Location: Chicago, IL

Hybrid: Minimum 3 days onsite/week

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience
• Experience coming out of large enterprise wide corporate or consulting firm environments
• 7+ years of IT project management experience, with 5 years of experience managing increasingly complex enterprise projects, which may include enterprise software implementations, infrastructure, stand-alone applications, mobile or web development.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously across projects focused on business functions, application lifecycles, networking, hosting, disaster recovery, cybersecurity and other IT related areas.
• Experience managing enterprise rollouts, including stakeholder coordination, training, and adoption
• Experience with transactional systems, particularly in the accounting, finance or human resources functional areas as well as core IT functions
• Strong infrastructure experience (hosting, data centers, cloud, network, security initiatives)
• Demonstrated experience contributing to process and methodology improvements
• Demonstrated knowledge and execution of project management practices, tools and methodologies, including an appropriate project management tool (Smartsheet, Asana, etc.)

Preferred

• PMP certified
• Law Firm/Legal services industry experience
• Project management tools: Smartsheet, Asana, and the Microsoft Suite

Responsibilities

• Manage various IT projects in the areas of IT Portfolios supporting Core IT, Accounting, Marketing, HR, Infrastructure, IT Security, and more.
• The Senior Project Manager will ensure delivery of high-quality projects within time and budget according to a pre-defined, consistent process.
• Work with other Project Managers, Solutions Delivery Team, other IT and business stakeholders, and vendors to ensure successful project delivery from project inception through closure.
• Create various project documents, including project charters, project plans, status reports, project risk assessments, project gating, and leadership presentations. Work with project team to ensure relevant project documentation is created.
• Provide project gating presentations to the IT Directors during the various stage gates of their assigned projects.
• Report on the project pipeline, budget run, risks, issues and mitigation plans for assigned projects.
• Resolve resource, timing or other conflicts between projects.