Senior IT Project Manager

Position Title:

Senior IT Project Manager

Salary Range:

Senior Project Manager (Grade 16, Exempt). Annual salary range: $99,200 – $124,000. This range reflects the minimum to midpoint of the grade. Salary may exceed the midpoint and will commensurate with experience.

Job Description Summary:

As a Senior IT Project Manager, you will partner with senior leadership and key leaders to deliver enterprise-scale, large projects on time and on budget. This individual must have strong communication and relationship-building skills and thrive in a fast-paced environment where cross-functional leadership is key to solving complex problems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Project lifecycle management and delivery

• Responsible for the end-to-end management of medium and large projects and is accountable for the project scope, schedule, budget, resources, change management, and overall quality of project delivery.

• Guides project sponsor and stakeholders across all phases of the project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution, risk mitigation, monitoring and control, and closure.

• Identify and structure work streams for key initiatives, works with project team to organize solution roadmaps and reach critical milestones.

• Effectively collaborates with team to mitigate risks and proactively supports planned and/or unplanned needs.

• Manages ongoing deliverables and determines appropriate priority of day-to-day tasks.

• Partners with business leaders to provide training for implemented projects.

• Serves as primary resource to project team to remove obstacles, provide solutions, and coach team members to achieve project objectives.

• Manages and maintains strong relationships with vendor partners.

• Oversee dependencies across assigned projects.

• Manages multiple projects concurrently.

• Mentors less experienced project managers.

2. Documentation and communication

• Manages and communicates all project work streams to ensure project meets delivery requirements, timeframes, and budget.

• Communicates and presents information effectively to a wide variety of audiences.

• Adheres to PMO project methodology including all proper documentation, status reports, meeting minutes, issue logs and any other documentation related to the management of projects.

• Establishes and manages cross-functional relationships between all areas of the business.

• Leads utilization of project management software tools to manage project documentation, communication, and progress tracking.

3. Continuous Improvement

• Provide input on improvement opportunities to optimize time and efficiency of project teams.

• Stays informed and educated on changing technologies, frameworks, and project management best practices.

4. Participates in releases as necessary, including outside of traditional work hours.

5. Other duties as assigned.

Additional Job Description:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field AND a minimum of four years’ experience managing technical projects in an e-commerce, web development, or other complex mission critical business system OR

• A combination of IT related post-secondary and/or professional education and demonstrated relevant work experience managing technical projects in an e-commerce, web development, or other complex mission critical business system equivalent to a total of eight years.

• Four years’ experience with some the following project management tools: Azure DevOps, JIRA, and Smartsheets.

• Two years’ experience with various software development approaches including agile and waterfall.

• Strong business process/operational knowledge (e.g., customer service, inventory management, procurement, accounting)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field and eight years’ experience managing technical projects in an e-commerce, web development, or other complex mission critical business system.

• Six years’ experience with some the following project management tools: Azure DevOps, JIRA, and Smartsheets.

• Four years’ experience with various software development approaches including agile and waterfall.

• PMP or CAPM certification.

Location:

• This is a remote position, and is subject to Sourcewell's telecommuting policies and procedures.

• On occasion, may be asked to travel to Staples, MN for meetings, professional development or team activities. Potentially twice per year. Notice will be given ahead of time.

Full Time/Part Time:

Full time

Position Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

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