What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. IT Project Manager position at Teichert, Inc.?
Purpose
The purpose of this position is to understand business work processes and provide the right digital (IT systems and Data Analytics) capabilities to support the business. This role will help Teichert prioritize and maximize our digital investments to increase productivity, efficiency and deliver transformational capabilities to the business.
Focus & Scope
Essential duties and responsibilities, i.e. those which are basic, necessary, and an integral part of the job, are indicated below.
Company/Entity
Relationships, Qualifications, and Requirements
Key Relationships
Reports to:
Role Qualifications & Requirements
Education:
EOE including disablility/veterans
The purpose of this position is to understand business work processes and provide the right digital (IT systems and Data Analytics) capabilities to support the business. This role will help Teichert prioritize and maximize our digital investments to increase productivity, efficiency and deliver transformational capabilities to the business.
Focus & Scope
Essential duties and responsibilities, i.e. those which are basic, necessary, and an integral part of the job, are indicated below.
Company/Entity
- Actively supports the achievement of the business unit's goals and objectives by applying expert knowledge of a variety of technologies.
- Collaborates across departments and supports consistent technical practices and financial reporting procedures. Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards that protect the company's interests.
- Promotes and protects Teichert's, values including diversity, teamwork, fair work environment, and respect of others to maintain a "team" spirit within the business unit and on project teams; works and cooperates with other disciplines across company lines to ensure maximum and best uses of Teichert resources.
- Builds and maintains positive working relationships with internal and external customers. Maintains a positive impression of the department and company with external customers through professional interactions.
- Promotes and protects the community perception of Teichert.
- Creates and manages the right oversight structure for each project.
- Defines project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
- Leads the planning, organizing, and implementing technical projects across IT, business and functional units.
- Develops and manages project budgets with transparent communication on changes to project steering teams, management etc.
- Ensures allocation of resources to projects and actively manages workload of team in coordination with IT, business and functional leaders.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
- Proactively and effectively communicates with stakeholders on project progress, resourcing, roadblocks, risks, production release timelines etc.
- Ensures delivery of projects on time and within budget. Uses IT project management tools appropriately and creates transparency on project progress and performance.
- Proactively supports the Project Delivery team by gathering, analyzing, and reporting IT metrics.
- Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
- Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
Relationships, Qualifications, and Requirements
Key Relationships
Reports to:
- CIO
- N/A
- Software vendors, regulatory agencies
- All Personnel within Teichert and all Subsidiaries.
Role Qualifications & Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field required
- Master's degree in computer science or a related field preferred
- 10 or more years of work experience as an IT Project Manager required.
- Experience with diverse projects of increasing complexity and scope required.
- Experience leading cloud migrations or ERP implementations preferred.
- Candidates with willingness and ability to lead projects across multiple functions and businesses preferred.
- PMP certification preferred.
- Successful completion of pre-employment drug, alcohol, and background investigation
- Valid Driver's License
- Current on all company required safety and regulatory training
- Detail oriented, analytical and well organized
- Strong problem solving, written and oral communication skills, as well as excellent judgement and self-motivation.
- Ability to work well independently or with a team.
- Strongly developed organizational and time management skills with the ability to move a project from design to adoption.
- Training and expertise in change management preferred.
- Demonstrated prior experience and ability to learn the business, organizational dynamics etc. required.
- Demonstrated ability to lead influentially across the organization.
- Ability to engage stakeholders at all levels across the organization.
- Communication & Teamwork
- Analytical & Problem Solving Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Creative Thinking
- Technological
- Decision Making
- Leadership & Influencing
- Relationship Management
- Critical Thinking Skills
EOE including disablility/veterans
