IT Project Manager

This position accomplishes project objectives by evaluating requirements and outcomes needed from the project as well as planning executing monitoring/controlling and closing project addition the position will ensure change is introduced efficiently and effectively in the organization by leading directing coordinating and providing visibility into the organizations change management efforts. The role creates change management strategies and develops change workstreams that maximize employees change readiness and adoption.

• Employs structured project management methodologies (e.g. PMI) to deliver successful business outcomes through expertly managed projects at the IT or enterprise level.
• Develops detailed project plans deliverables milestones goals and inter/intra project dependency maps that ensure all required project work is executed completely correctly and timely.
• Works with project sponsors and stakeholders to define the appropriate resource requirements in terms of skills knowledge availability and capacity to successfully conduct project work. Ensures that any gap is identified and addressed at the proper time within the project timeline to maximize project efficiency and efficacy.
• Assembles and coordinates project team members and assignments across individuals maintaining balanced workloads.
• Creates comprehensive communications plans that identify the level type format and style of communications for the project team stakeholders and sponsors. Utilizes standard tools (e.g. RACI) to define roles and responsibilities at all times within the project lifecycle.
• Prepares requests for proposals (RFPs) for external services and conducts all necessary meetings to facilitate selection. Monitors contracts and maintains regular communication with service providers.
• Develops proper risk management strategies that focus on risk identification and proactive response/mitigation. Ensures that issue management is comprehensive visible and timely to minimize impact to the project. Educates team members in risk/issue management and ensure that the discipline is built into the DNA of the project team and its operations.
• Develops maintains and communicates detailed project financial budgets and forecast status. Ensure project financials are managed proactively and provides visibility at required levels of the organization. Works closely with Sourcing and Vendor Management to ensure supplier engagements meet the project requirements and benefit the organization.
• Complies with all policies and procedures and ensure the project teams are educated and follow them.
• Works with IT Leadership to continuously improve project and change management processes tools knowledge and capability across the organization.
• Employs a structured change management methodology (e.g. ADKAR) to facilitate change and promote commitment to adapt to the change. Knows how to tailor this methodology to be culturally appropriate for the enterprise.
• Prepares for change by assessing the magnitude of change and the organizations change readiness. Identifies pitfalls and potential points of challenge or change aversion. Develops counterstrategies to mitigate or minimize potential issues. Assesses impact to stakeholders affected by the change and regularly reviews the community for potential change fatigue.
• Tailors change management plans (training and orientation) to accommodate the needs of the different stakeholder groups impacted.
• Works with HR and other stakeholders to create a communications strategy and plan to ensure all employees are fully aware of impending changes. Creates mechanisms to de-emphasize old behaviors and encourage new desired ones.
• Identifies educates and provides leadership for change agents and change advocates within the stakeholder executive and trusted informal leaders to create employee understanding and influence successful organizational change.
• Performs quantitative assessment of change success and change adoption. Solicits feedback from stakeholders to determine the success of change management activities and ensure that behavioral changes align with strategic objectives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organization presentation and customer service skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities/projects and deliver results with limited resources.
• Ability and desire to be hands on with applications and technology tools to deliver solutions
• Demonstrated leadership to project teams across matrix organization.
• Proven project and process management skills.

Strong problem solving and decision making skills.

• Bachelors degree in technology Engineering or related field. Advanced business degree preferred.
• 5-10 years project management experience in an Information Technology environment and 2-3 years organizational change management experience. Multi-plant manufacturing environment preferred.
• 3 or more years of experience in cross-functional areas or leading cross-functional organizational projects.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification or equivalent preferred. Change Management professional certification desired.
• Financial knowledge to ensure organizational change efforts are aligned with the financial perspective of the desired business benefits.

• Project Management experience with large scale applications (SAP GE Proficy AI platforms etc.)
• Methodology expertise Agile Scrum Waterfall or hybrid approaches and knowing when to apply each
• Planning & scheduling scope definition work breakdown structures timeline/Gantt chart management
• IT/technical literacy enough understanding of software development infrastructure networks or cloud platforms to communicate credibly with engineers
• Security & compliance awareness understanding data privacy regulatory and security requirements relevant to IT projects
• Communication translating technical details for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa
• Stakeholder management aligning expectations across executives business units and technical teams
• Adaptability responding to shifting requirements especially in fast-moving tech environments

• Office setting and Manufacturing

• May require occasional travel in support of project meetings