Project Manager, Information Technology

Why Ryan

• Flexible Work Environment

• Award-Winning Culture

• World-Class Benefits and Compensation

• Accelerated Career Path

• Community Outreach

• Mentorship Opportunities

• Wellness-Centric Benefits

Duties and responsibilities as they align to Ryans Key Results

People

• Provide effective project leadership across technology initiatives fostering accountability collaboration and a strong delivery mindset among project team members.
• Lead cross-functional project teams consisting of IT business vendor and implementation partner resources to successfully achieve project objectives.
• Establish clear roles responsibilities expectations and communication practices across project teams.
• Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders technology leaders product owners and technical teams to facilitate effective decision-making and issue resolution.
• Promote a culture of transparency continuous improvement and shared accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coach project team members on project management disciplines delivery practices risk management and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Facilitate collaboration across global regional and functional teams to ensure alignment on project priorities dependencies and outcomes.

Client

• Plan and manage technology projects from initiation through implementation ensuring delivery within agreed scope schedule budget and quality expectations.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define project objectives requirements success criteria deliverables and implementation plans.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans including milestones resource requirements dependencies budgets risks and critical-path activities.
• Provide clear timely project status reporting to stakeholders and leadership including progress against milestones key decisions risks issues and recommended actions.
• Proactively identify and manage project risks issues constraints and dependencies escalating appropriately to maintain delivery momentum.
• Coordinate activities across application infrastructure security data architecture integration and business teams as required by the initiative.
• Manage third-party vendors and implementation partners including deliverables timelines dependencies and performance against project commitments.
• Lead project governance meetings working sessions steering committee discussions and executive-level project updates as appropriate.
• Coordinate testing deployment change management training and business-readiness activities to support successful implementation and adoption.
• Ensure effective transition of completed solutions to operational and support teams.

Value

• Apply consistent project management methodologies governance standards tools and controls to improve delivery predictability and project outcomes.
• Establish and track project KPIs milestones financial performance resource utilization risks and value-realization measures.
• Manage project budgets and forecasts identifying variances and taking appropriate corrective action to maintain financial discipline.
• Ensure technology investments remain aligned with approved business cases strategic objectives and expected business outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery through standardization automation agile practices and continuous process improvement.
• Maintain accurate project documentation including project plans RAID logs decision logs status reports financial tracking and governance materials.
• Ensure projects comply with applicable technology security architecture data privacy audit and regulatory requirements.
• Support portfolio planning and prioritization by providing accurate information regarding project capacity dependencies timelines costs and delivery risks.
• Conduct project retrospectives and incorporate lessons learned into future delivery practices.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Business Administration Project Management or a related field.
• 58 years of experience managing technology projects in complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional IT projects involving enterprise applications infrastructure integrations data or digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and delivery frameworks including Agile Waterfall and hybrid approaches.
• Experience developing and managing project plans budgets forecasts resource plans RAID logs dependencies and executive-level status reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and projects while maintaining strong attention to scope schedule budget quality and business outcomes.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams external vendors and implementation partners.
• Strong stakeholder management facilitation communication negotiation problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technology concepts project risks and delivery considerations effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with enterprise project and portfolio management tools and collaboration platforms.
• PMP PMI-ACP Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or similar project management certification preferred.
• Experience within a global professional services or similarly complex organization preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran