Senior IT Project Manager

At Weyerhaeuser we are the worlds premier timber land and forest products company. Sustainability is the founding concept of our business and our values drive every decision to ensure we continue to lead the forestry industry in sustainability practices. And we know about sustainability we led it in the forestry industry when we planted our first seedling by hand in 1938. We recognize that our success is dependent on the success of our people. For over 100 years our Weyerhaeuser team has been making a difference in the world from the seedlings we plant to the forests and trees we nurture we ensure every acre is managed with diligence patience and pride. Thats the Weyerhaeuser way.

Our IT team is on a mission to transform the timber industry. Were not just in the cloud were implementing technology that will keep us at the forefront of innovation in the forest products industry. Join our team and be a key partner to help us shape our digital future. This role will help expand our strategic technical direction and implement solutions that enable business strategies. If you want to be part of a world-class technology team changing the world we live in come grow with us!

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr IT Project Manager to join our team. As an Sr IT Project Manager you will play a pivotal role in driving transformational projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver results. If you are a motivated proactive leader with a passion for driving transformational change in various technological domains we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Job Responsibilities

• Project Leadership: Lead and manage moderate to complex IT projects from initiation to completion. Take ownership and accountability for project delivery ensuring adherence to timelines budgets and quality standards. Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related activities. Develop a project plan that outlines the scope timelines resource requirements risks and interdependencies.

• Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans including timelines milestones resource allocation and risk management strategies. Coordinate project activities track progress and manage project risks and issues. Implement effective project management methodologies and best practices (experience with agile waterfall and hybrid). Oversee the execution of project tasks ensuring adherence to the project plan and timelines. Monitor progress track milestones and resolve any issues or roadblocks that may arise during project implementation.

• Project Team Management: Assemble and lead a project team assigning roles and responsibilities to team members. Provide direction guidance support and motivation to ensure effective teamwork and project collaboration.

• Stakeholder Management and Communications: Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including executives sponsors accountable leaders resource managers external partners and team members. Manage expectations solve problems escalate issues and drive decisions. Create and help execute comprehensive change management strategies and communication plans.

• Project Governance: Establish project governance structures processes and frameworks to ensure effective decision-making risk management and reporting including regular progress reporting milestone tracking and project status updates. Define roles and responsibilities for project governance committees and project teams.

• Resource Management: Allocate and manage resources across projects. Optimize resource utilization address conflicts and monitor resource availability to ensure project success. Collaborate with Resource Managers to secure resources for your project.

• Budget Management: Establish project budget track project spending and reforecast spending regularly throughout project lifecycle.

• Risk and Issue Management: Identify assess and manage risks and issues across the project. Develop mitigation strategies contingency plans and escalation procedures to minimize potential disruptions and address challenges. Maintain RAID log.

• Monitoring and Control: Implement processes to monitor and control project progress milestones scope schedule budget and deliverables. Regularly assess project performance track key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide status reports to stakeholders.

• Change Control: Manage changes within the project including changes in scope requirements or timelines. Evaluate change requests assess their impact on the project document change decisions and communicate changes effectively to stakeholders.

• Quality Assurance: Define and implement quality standards processes and metrics to ensure high-quality deliverables. Conduct project audits and reviews to identify areas for improvement.

• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and contractors including contract negotiation performance monitoring and issue resolution.

• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement based on lessons learned from completed projects. Foster a culture of continuous improvement encouraging innovation process enhancements and lessons learned to drive operational excellence.

• Education: Bachelors degree and/or equivalent work experience noted below

• Work Experience: 6 8 years of progressive relevant experience in an IT Project Manager role is required. Deep experience managing moderately complex IT projects from beginning to end meeting budget scope schedule and benefits targets.

• Expert leadership and team management skills with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels is required.

  Additional Qualifications

• Experience with industry standard project management tools (MS project Smartsheet Azure DevOps)

• Advanced ability to develop business cases (including outcomes and KPIs) understand project interdependencies manage project resources and costs and communicate with stakeholders to achieve the projects objectives.

• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)is highly desirable.

• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) certification is highly desirable.

• Proven ability to plan and execute the work in agile sprints while providing full transparency into the progress to complete the agreed upon project scope in alignment with project level milestones and deliverables.

• Advanced knowledge and hands on experience with project management methodologies (e.g. Agile Waterfall hybrid) as well as relevant industry standards and best practices.

• Advanced understanding of IT infrastructure systems development life cycle (SDLC) and enterprise software implementations.

• Enthusiastic team player with a willingness to learn and grow in a dynamic environment.

What We Offer:

Compensation: This role is eligible for our annual merit-increase program and we are targeting a salary range of $106917-$160376 based on your level of skills qualifications and experience. You will also be eligible for our Annual Incentive Program which offers a cash bonus targeting 15% of base pay. Potential plan funding may range from zero to two times that target.

Benefits: When you join our team you and your dependents will be offered coverage under our comprehensive employee benefits plan which includes medical dental vision short and long-term disability and life insurance. We offer a pre-tax Health Savings Account option which includes a company contribution. Other benefit options are also available such as voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs. We also support personal volunteerism sponsor a host of diversity networks promote mentoring and provide training and development opportunities to help you chart your path to a fulfilling career.

Retirement: Employees are able to enroll in our companys 401k plan which includes a paid company match in addition to our annual contribution equal to 5% of your base salary.

Paid Time Off or Vacation:We provide eligible employees who are scheduled to work 25 hours or more per week with 3-weeks of paid vacation to use during your first year of employment. In addition after being employed for six months eligible employees begin to accrue vacation for future use. We also recognize eleven paid holidays per year providing a total of 88 holiday hours and paid parental leave for all full-time employees.

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