IT Senior Project Manager

Job Responsibilities:

• Direct complex IT projects that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related project management artifacts.
• Manage financial forecasts and provide on-going budget variance and scope change requests, and participate in the budget-resolution process.
• Foster partnerships with program / project stakeholders and sponsors to define success criteria and metrics.
• Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of project.
• Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered.
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company.
• Continually update relevant stakeholders of project status and publish accurate and professional project status reports.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to regularly brief key stakeholders on various aspects of assigned initiatives.
• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums.
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Ensure realistic and reliable resource plans across the project, focusing on the availability and commitment of appropriately skilled resources.
• Identify, clarify, track and manage requirements, risks/opportunities, decisions and issues, remove barriers, resolve project issues and escalate as appropriate.
• Partner with program management for contributions to overall reporting and status.

Skills:

• Project Management Expertise (10+ years)
• PMP & Agile Certification
• Stakeholder Management & Communication
• Financial & Resource Management
• Risk Management & Problem Solving
• Tools & Technical Proficiency
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Leadership in Matrixed Environment
• CPQ Implementation Experience
• Business & Technical Acumen (Finance / Source-to-Pay)

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree- in any field
• PMP certification (Project Management Institute) and Agile certification
• CPQ implementation experience
• Agile certification
• 10+ years of project management experience establishing and delivering IT projects, especially large company, global deployments