Project Manager, Information Technology

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties and responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

• Manage large-scale, highly complex projects with scope spanning more than one functional area or discipline.
• Consult with management and review project proposals to determine goals, timeframe, funding limitations, and procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of resources.
• Develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources.
• Define and communicate project requirements.
• Formulate and define technical scope and objectives of project.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Coordinate recruitment or assignment of project personnel including assignment of duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget.
• Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
• Prepare project status reports and keep management, clients, and others informed of project status and related issues.
• Assess variances from plan and develop and implement corrective actions to ensure project meets time, cost and quality objectives.
• Provide project leadership and direction to project teams and monitor daily activities.
• Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Coordinate and respond to requests for changes from original specifications.
• Develop business processes that ensure developed application meets all project requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical and project documentation.
• Ensure development of quality assurance test plans and direct quality assurance testing.
• Coordinate project activities with marketing, sales, engineering, operations, customer support, and client staff to ensure goals and requirements are met.

Provide reports in dashboard form and project level detail to management areas of the business (Directors and Managers).

Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university; or three (3) to five (5) years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  Two (2) to three (3) years of project leadership experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification highly desirable.
• Intermediate level of skill in Microsoft Excel, and Intermediate skill Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Explorer. Beginner level of skill in Microsoft Visio and Jira.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships within all levels of the organization.
• Strong team skills, displays positive teamwork characteristics, manages conflict well, and treats others with respect.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, demonstrates strong listening skills, speaks clearly and concisely, writes clearly and concisely, uses correct grammar/punctuation/spelling, adept at picking up on non-verbal cues and reading between the lines.
• Demonstrate organizational and planning skills.
• Strong achievement orientation and drive to excel.
• Demonstrates leadership skills, inspires trust and respect, builds consensus and commitment, overcomes resistance, sets expectations, and establishes a strong executive presence.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to understand user requirements that are required to design and program various software applications.
• Ability to communicate with highly technical Information Technology (IT) staff regarding team system requirements.
• Ability to assist team with development of project test requirements.
• Ability to employ team facilitation skills to manage and control team meetings.
• Demonstrate general business understanding of at least one of the following areas: sales/customer service, supply chain, logistics, product development, marketing, quality, warehousing, accounting, finance, credit, etc.