IT Project Manager

Roles/Responsibilities:

The leased Project Manager will:

1. Manage 2-5 concurrent SMUD enterprise projects across phases including Initiation, Planning, and Execution, ensuring compliance with SMUD Enterprise Project Management Process.
2. Establish and Develop trust and relationships with Project Sponsors, Execution Sponsors and key stakeholders to provide successful project governance and oversight.
3. With Project Sponsor and Execution Sponsor define success criteria for the project, and quantifiable benefits that will be measured after the project closes.
4. Lead all project management processes including discovery, initiation, detailed planning, resource coordination, risk management, communications, execution monitoring, and project closing activities per SMUD's phase gates and controls.
5. Develop and maintain key project artifacts required by SMUD such as Business Cases, Stakeholder Lists, Communication Plans, Project Charters, Risk Registers, Project Schedules with defined milestones, Benefit Realization Plans, and Status Reports.
6. Facilitate formal phase gate reviews and authorizations (Initiation Planning Execution Closing), ensuring all project deliverables meet SMUD's specified inputs, outputs, and approval requirements per each phase in the Enterprise Project Process.
7. Work closely with Business Unit Planning Coordinators (BUPC), Business Planning Analysts (BPA), Project Sponsors, Execution Sponsors, and other key stakeholders to confirm funding, resource availability, and alignment with enterprise priorities.
8. Monitor and control project scope, schedule, cost, and risks, initiating Change Requests as necessary in accordance with SMUD approval thresholds.
9. Provide regular and ad hoc status updates using SMUD's systems of record (ServiceNow PPM, SAP BPC, and PowerBI dashboards) to ensure enterprise-wide visibility and facilitate governance.
10. Build and Track project tasks in Atlassian Align, Microsoft project and ServiceNow PPM or successor PPM tools.
11. Lead project closeout activities including lessons learned documentation and benefits realization follow-up in coordination with SMUD's Closing and Benefits Realization processes.
12. Ensure adherence to SMUD ethical standards, delegated approval authorities, and reporting requirements throughout project lifecycles.

Deliverables:

1. Approved Business Cases and Project Charters per project
2. Comprehensive Project Management Plan artifacts aligned with PMP principles and SMUD requirements
3. Detailed Project Schedules with enterprise milestone templates integrated
4. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Plans
5. Monthly (or more frequently as needed) Status Reports and Project Dashboards
6. Risk and Issue Logs with mitigation and escalation paths documented
7. Approved Change Requests when threshold criteria are met
8. Project Closeout reports including Lessons Learned and Benefits Realization documentation

Mandatory Skills:

Must be PMP certification required, please list the certification, status (active or inactive) and date received.

Minimum five (5) years of experience with IT Project Management

Must have experience demonstrating successful management of multiple concurrent enterprise-level projects, preferably within regulated or utility environments

Must have strong skills in multi-stakeholder communication, schedule and cost control, risk management, and governance adherence

Must have experience with demonstrating professional maturity and be able to read a situation and adapt communication style to ensure productive collaboration up, down and across the organization.

Minimum of (1) year experience with projects implementing web content management, and marketing automation projects

Must be proficient in project management tools such as ServiceNow, SAP BPC, Microsoft Project, and Atlassian Align. Power BI analytical experience is a plus

Desirable Skills:

Experience with Agile frameworks and/or Agile certification.