IT Project Manager - remote

Company: MAKE Corporation
Location: Denver
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

IT Project Manager#JP_AO5Duration: 18 Months or contract to perm hire. (Your choice)Remote?: Yes. Candidates must be local to Chicagoland for a few onsite days/monthLocation: Primarily remote with company based conveniently near expressways in Rosemont, ILJob Description:

• While working within the Enterprise PMO team, the Project Manager will work independently and be accountable for assigned project implementations on a day-to-day basis.
• Demonstrates expertise in scope planning and management and requirements elicitation and management. This requires critical thinking.
• Manages assigned projects that span one or more cross-functional teams; accountable for full project life cycle ownership; successful project delivery will include full system implementation from initiation to deployment.
• You will act as a change agent and will be responsible for delivering projects and strategic initiatives that span cross-functional business teams and directly contributes to fulfilling the organizational mission.
• This includes managing project team resources, schedules and budgets, while ensuring adherence to the department's standards and guidelines for project management and implementation.
• You will manage issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and timely project delivery.
• This includes all aspects of implementation, including discovery, definition, change management and the supporting technology initiatives required to meet the project objectives.
• You will be accountable for ensuring that assigned projects produce the required deliverables of quality within the specified constraints of time, cost and/or resources while still achieving the stated business outcomes.
• To be successful, you must be incredibly organized and detail oriented, collaborative and a strong and clear communicator.
• Monitors, tracks and controls outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
• Provides detailed analysis of business needs to identify and document key requirements for technology systems and their success.
• The position holder will be data driven.
• Identifies and informs continuous improvement opportunities within the PMO and cross-organizationally to drive best practices and increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness.QUALIFICATIONS:
  • 4-10 years of experience managing both business and technology related projects involving custom development or systems integration projects.
  • Experience managing cross-functional, large platform implementation programs or projects.
  • Experience with technology platform project delivery working across multiple System Development Methodologies including waterfall, hybrid, agile, SCRUM, etc.
  • Experience using collaboration tools, including MS Project, Jira and SharePoint
  • Experience working in a structured PMO a plus
  • Experience managing all aspects of project delivery, including business and technology.
  • Familiarity with project management lifecycle (PMLC) methodology based upon Project Management Institute (PMI) standards.
  • Familiarity with Quality Assurance processes and procedures
  • Experience managing vendor relationships and consultant resources.
  • Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process & deliverables.
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to present complex ideas and concepts and build collaborative relationships while maintaining accountability
  • Experience creating business process, business requirements and specification level detail documentation.Desired:
    • Experience with enterprise systems that support strategic/critical organizational processes.
    • Experience with change management methodologies .

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