Job Title: IT Project Manager (Enterprise Programs & Governance)
Role Overview
An organization is seeking a strategic, highly organized, and assertive IT Project Manager to drive complex, enterprise-level technology initiatives. In this role, you will serve as the central orchestrator between business resources, technical delivery teams, executive sponsors, steering committees, and governance councils.
This is a governance-focused project management role requiring deep expertise in integrated schedule management, effort-based estimation, and critical chain/critical path analysis. You will craft project charters, manage cross-functional dependencies, facilitate formal project reviews (such as Quality Review Boards and peer assessments), and ensure seamless execution of Organizational Change Management (OCM) plans. If you excel at aligning technical delivery with strategic business objectives and driving accountability across all organizational levels, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
Governance & Stakeholder Management
Executive Communication: Manage communication channels across business resources, project sponsors, steering committees, and governance councils.
Project Chartering: Craft, maintain, and socialize project charters, defining scope, objectives, roles, and responsibilities.
Portfolio Alignment: Communicate project scope changes, budget variances, and timeline impacts upstream to portfolio managers.
Scheduling & Effort Estimation
Integrated Timelines: Build and maintain comprehensive, resource-driven project schedules incorporating cross-team dependencies, effort allocations, and critical path analysis.
Effort-Based Estimation: Solicit and evaluate work estimates based strictly on net effort rather than duration, ensuring accurate capacity planning and buffer management.
Prioritization: Leverage critical chain insights to guide project teams and leaders on backlog prioritization and resource adjustments.
Lifecycle Quality & OCM Execution
Review Facilitation: Accountable for facilitating formal project governance processes, including Quality Review Boards (QRBs), peer reviews, timeline risk analyses, and lessons-learned sessions.
Change Management: Integrate and execute Organizational Change Management (OCM) frameworks as a core component of the overarching project plan.
Regulatory Awareness: Maintain a strong understanding of regulatory, legal, and quality compliance requirements impacting the business area, ensuring all project tasks align accordingly.
Qualifications & Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
Experience Baseline: Minimum of 5 to 7 years of professional experience managing complex IT software, infrastructure, or enterprise system implementation projects.
Methodology Mastery:
oProven expertise in building resource-loaded schedules, managing effort-driven timelines, and applying critical path/critical chain methodologies.
oStrong experience facilitating formal project governance gates, quality reviews, and risk assessments.
oDemonstrated success executing Organizational Change Management (OCM) strategies within technical programs.
Core Competencies: Exceptional executive presence; superior stakeholder influence, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills; excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
Preferred Attributes
Professional project management certifications (e.g., PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent).
Experience operating within regulated industries or quality-sensitive corporate environments.
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Additional Skills
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AllSTEM Representative Contact Info
Account Executive:
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