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Pay Rate: $80.00/Hour on W2.

Job Description - IT Project Manager

Position Overview:
The IT Project Manager will play a crucial role as the leader of project teams responsible for delivering key business initiatives. This role ensures that project goals and scopes are aligned, deliverables and tasks are on time and meet established project standards. They will be a part of the IT PMO and will work closely with project sponsors and owners to assemble and manage technical project teams to execute essential business initiatives, ensure quality control, standardized deliverables, and proper communication and delegation of tasks throughout the project lifecycle. The IT Project Manager will plan, evaluate, and execute projects according to predefined objectives, scope, timelines, and requirements, identify project roadblocks and risks, escalating them to the appropriate levels within the project and organization.

The IT Project Manager will lead dynamic project assignments from initial assessment through to completion, by leveraging and coordinating the expertise of diverse disciplines. They will 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. Responsibilities also include prioritizing tasks to ensure productivity, quality, and customer service goals are consistently met. The IT Project Manager will collaborate with business stakeholders to clarify requirements, ensuring alignment and understanding as needed.

This position will monitor and track project progress, providing key stakeholders with regular updates to the team to keep them informed of milestones and achievements. They will 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.

Essential Job Duties

• 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 scope, 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 change 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 scope of the project.
• Identify, assess, and surface project risks proactively and work with the business/IT to countermeasure them.

• 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 in Technical IT project management (e.g., Application, Infrastructure).
• Must have a technical background and be 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.