IT Project Manager

Job Summary:

• The PM will lead dynamic project assignments from initial assessment through to completion, by leveraging and coordinating the expertise of diverse disciplines.
• Craft comprehensive project plans, schedules, and budgets; engage in negotiations with functional managers to secure the right resources and build a team dedicated to achieving project success.
• Prioritize tasks to ensure productivity, quality, and customer service goals are consistently met.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify requirements, ensuring alignment and understanding as needed.
• Monitor and track project progress, providing key stakeholders with regular updates to the team to keep them informed of milestones and achievements.
• Innovatively address and remove obstacles to enhance team productivity and ensure smooth project execution.
• Additionally, the IT Project Manager will collaborate within the PMO to support process improvements, foster collaboration, and report on portfolio and organizational metrics for IT.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and conflict resolution.
• Strong leadership & stakeholder management skills with the ability to assemble, manage and motivate diverse project teams to accomplish project objectives.
• Identify project stakeholders, project requirements, and overall timelines.
• Manage and coordinate with project team to define Product, schedule, budget and risks.
• Document the communication plan, change management plan and escalation plan.
• Define team member roles and responsibilities, monitor team performance and ensure project resources receive the training required to perform their duties.
• Review and manage all changes requests according to the defined change management processes.
• Lead project meetings, status calls, coordinate project activities and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Provide regular project status updates including project progress toward achieving the objectives defined in the business case.
• Ensure the project management software tools are being updated in a timely manner.
• Provide sign-off for phase and project completion; document project outcome and lessons learned.
• Direct the activities of multiple global resources dependent upon on the Product of the project.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record of managing complex projects, typically with 10 years of IT project management experience in relevant industries.
• Advanced Project Management Skills: Proficiency in project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Waterfall) and tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, JIRA, PPM Pro).
• At Least 10+ years of experience in a Project Management role with global technology projects, must have had hands-on experience Technical IT project management (E.g. Application. Infrastructure), Must have a technical background and the able to interface with business and vendors, PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification highly preferred, for global coverage, this candidate would need to be flexible to regularly attend meetings to accommodate Asia, US East Coast and European time zones.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Must be able to lead technical projects with limited direction, Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities, Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently, Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments, Ability to bring project to successful completion through organizational dynamics, Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and operational skill sets, Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies, Strong Customer service skills and focus required, Tenacious, driven, energetic and a high degree of professional integrity, Strong track record of on-time, on-budget and to-specification delivery of projects, Ability to organize, delegate and leverage resources to accomplish objectives, Ability to manage relationships with internal team members, outside contractors and the customer stakeholders and end users.