IT Project Manager

Role: IT Project Manager

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ Months

Job description:

The candidate will manage and provide oversight of dependencies across a number of very complex efforts that span multiple functions across Company. The ideal candidate should have experience working in customer-facing roles and understand the commercial and supply chain operations of a large corporation. The project manager will need to coordinate with other project and program managers to understand dependencies and ensure they are tightly managed.

Major Responsibilities:

Provide project management for assigned projects

Will oversee cross-dependencies of very complex projects that may span multiple functions.

Facilitate initiation, scoping, planning and execution

Build and/or maintain project execution plan/charter, including approach, scope, tasks, duration, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile, team structuring, staffing, resource allocation, and deliverable definitions

Maintain and abide by project governance

Facilitate meetings, capture key action items and context of meetings. Maintain paper trail of decision that impact projects.

Anticipate and resolve issues and risks

Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate program and steering committee leadership

Adhere to the project s communication plan and ensure compliance with all reporting requirements including communication of project status to all project stakeholders including steering committees and executives

Measure project progress against agreed upon objectives and success criteria

Perform financial oversight and analysis

Ensure adherence to established project management standards and tools

Coach, mentor and manage project team members as needed

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelors degree
• 3 or more years of IT or business experience
• Experience in Agile development
• 2 or more years of experience managing a variety of full lifecycle application development/integration projects including ERP, Software as a Service, Web, and Information Security projects
• Proven leadership and influence skills including the ability to influence when there is no direct reporting relationship
• Experience leading large applications development/integration projects or programs across multiple countries/functions
• Experience in managing medium to large sized projects across multiple disciplines and/or teams
• Knowledge or understanding of software development lifecycle principles and methodologies
• Ability to build networks and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Superior negotiation skills
• Strong team orientation, collaboration skills, and interpersonal skills
• Strong results orientation
• Expertise in defining and improving processes
• Ability to make difficult decisions and to involve others sufficiently in the decision-making process