Title: IT Project Manager
Location: St. Louis, MO – Hybrid (1-2 days a month)
Duration: 12+ Months with potential conversion
Headcount: 2
Health Benefits: United Healthcare Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
Project overview
· Project 1 (regulatory): Software-related work updating the main billing system. Likely has tight deliverable deadlines. Project size is still being determined.
· Project 2: Also regulatory in nature, with similar PM responsibilities.
Day-to-day: Standard full-lifecycle project management (initiation, planning, execution, closure). They will work directly with technical and business leads and handle status reporting. A financial analyst does the financials, but the PM partners with them on forecasting and must track spend.
Must-have skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- Schedule management and holding people accountable
- Budget tracking (spotting under- or overspending), without deep financial expertise
- Organization, given the volume of work
Nice-to-have
- PMP (not required)
- Scrum Master experience (for the regulatory role)
- Utility industry experience (not required)
Work arrangement: Hybrid with no set in-office days. They need to be local enough to attend monthly stakeholder and leadership updates in person, so roughly 1 to 2 days a month at minimum.
Interview process: In person, ideally one round. An additional round may be added only if there are several strong candidates and more input is needed.
Extend or Convert: Likely to extend. Possible to convert depending on need in 2027
Position Overview
· Client is seeking an experienced IT/Digital Project Manager to lead technology projects and initiatives across a variety of areas. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded Project Manager who can manage multiple concurrent projects, work effectively with business and technical teams, and adapt their approach across predictive/waterfall, Agile, and hybrid delivery models.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead IT/Digital projects from planning through closure.
· Manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and changes.
· Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, forecasts, RAID items, and status reporting.
· Coordinate activities and dependencies across business, technical, and vendor teams.
· Manage concurrent projects that may span applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, vendor solutions, and other technology initiatives.
· Facilitate project meetings, decisions, governance, and change control.
· Manage project financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances.
· Communicate project status, risks, issues, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
· Drive accountability for project commitments and escalate issues when appropriate.
· Ensure projects follow applicable project governance and control processes.
Qualifications
· 5+ years of Project Management experience in medium to large organizations.
· Demonstrated experience managing technology projects using predictive/waterfall, Agile, and hybrid approaches.
· Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and cross-team dependencies.
· Strong project planning, scheduling, financial management, risk, issue, and change management skills.
· Experience working with business stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party vendors.
· Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
· Working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Jira.
· Ability to understand technical concepts without needing to be the technical subject matter expert.
· PMP preferred but not required.
· Degree preferred but not required.
Work Environment
· Hybrid work environment.
