Senior IT Project Manager
EDI Staffing
Reading, Pennsylvania
senior
project manager
manager
management
agile
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project management
tracking
labor
team
stakeholders
procedures
organizational change management
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January 31, 2023
EDI Staffing
Reading, Pennsylvania
Job Description
Position Summary
The Senior Project Manager independently plans and carries out significant, complex and highly visible projects to achieve stated business objectives. Responsible for planning and execution of projects and programs from inception to implementation, ensuring delivery of necessary functionality and achievement of project objectives. Partners with business and IT leads to develop the business case, scope the work, build plans, and successfully manage risks and issues to deliver outcomes.
Essential Functions/Key Deliverables
Knowledge/Skills/Experience
The Senior Project Manager independently plans and carries out significant, complex and highly visible projects to achieve stated business objectives. Responsible for planning and execution of projects and programs from inception to implementation, ensuring delivery of necessary functionality and achievement of project objectives. Partners with business and IT leads to develop the business case, scope the work, build plans, and successfully manage risks and issues to deliver outcomes.
Essential Functions/Key Deliverables
- Managing and controlling programs and large projects that are complex, cross-functional and strategic in nature.
- Ensuring that intended business benefits of assigned projects are delivered in a timely manner, within budget and per stakeholder expectations and requirements.
- Documenting and tracking key information such as project objectives, assumptions, issues, risks, milestones, success criteria, and in/out of scope deliverables.
- Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), documenting tasks, identifying dependencies, developing and managing the milestone/task schedule and estimating project labor and non-labor costs.
- Implementing Agile best practices where necessary.
- Facilitates project meetings (all Agile meetings Discovery Sessions, Iteration 0, Iteration Planning, Demo & Retrospective, Daily Stand-up, Backlog Grooming); completes project tracking/analysis reports
- Managing scope changes, publishing clear and concise status communications, ensuring high quality deliverables and consistently satisfying expectations and requirements.
- Motivating and assisting team members, organizing task assignments, facilitating team meetings, negotiating desired outcomes, balancing the needs of Business and IT stakeholders, and ensuring high quality processes and deliverables.
- Managing project financials including budget, forecast and actuals.
- Managing vendors, drive service excellence and control costs.
- Contributing and adhering to IT policies and procedures including but not limited to Project Management, QA, SDLC, Business Readiness, Operations & Support, and Information Security.
- Recommending solutions to address identified issues or problems.
- Partnering with business and IT stakeholders to identify and prioritize opportunities to maximize business value and achieve the business goals.
- Mentoring IT project managers and other staff members as needed.
- Incorporating organizational change management (OCM) best practices into project scope and schedules as needed.
- Advocating for the PMO and serving as the subject matter expert on project management.
Knowledge/Skills/Experience
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe or equivalent certification ( flexible if experience shows demonstrated PM/SCRUM capabilities)
- 12+ years of experience in IT with at least 8+ years in IT project management
- Ability to develop and monitor project plans, mitigate risk, and resolve issues
- Ability to resolve conflict, negotiate desired outcomes and influence others
- Experience working in a Project Management Office (PMO)
- Ability to contribute to the authoring and governance of PMO policies and procedures
- Strong familiarity with key business processes in the area of Finance, Sales, Supply Chain and Human capital management.
- Advanced level of competency with various project methodologies including Waterfall, Hybrid and Agile. Ability to perform Scrum Master role and provide project burn charts and presentations to IT/Business. Conduct daily standup, agile ceremonies, backlog grooming, and retrospective sessions.
- Working knowledge of Organizational Change Management (OCM) best practices
- Proficient with MS Project, Visio and Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams)
- Ability to travel 5-10%
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