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IS Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects to support the business systems and application needs. Includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of stakeholders, team members, business analyst's, and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan and customer needs. Also will define the project's objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.
Responsibilities Include:
* Direct and manage project development from beginning to end. Meet with internal customers.
* Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
* Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
* Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
* Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
* Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
* Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recommendations for additional staffing during project cycle.
* Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
* Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members.
* Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
* Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
* Track project milestones and deliverables.
* Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
* Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
* Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
* Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
* Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
* Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
* Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
* Strict adherence to established support and service management policies and procedures (i.e. incident, change, problem, SDLC, etc.) thereby ensuring all activities are fully documented for auditing and future support purposes.
* Resolve issues in a project such as scope creep, changes in user requirements, schedule slippage, risks, technical problems and shortages of resources.
* Conduct knowledge and skill transfer sessions with business units and other IT functions.
Experience:
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or comparable experience working with business enabling IT systems required.
* 8+ years of progressing and proven experience related to project management required.
* Previous experience working in a business/IT capacity for a company with manufacturing, distribution, restaurant retail and/or commercial consumer packaged goods (CPG) operations required.
* Previous experience in business technology systems (packaged and custom developed) selection/development and implementation.
* Previous experience managing vendors using vendor management tools / techniques.
* Proven track record in working and delivering business change. Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
* Strong project management, leadership, meeting facilitation, and Project Life Cycle skills requirement. (PMP certification preferred).
* Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
* Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
* Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, contractors and other departments.
* Strong written and oral communication skills.
* Strong interpersonal skills.
* Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products.
* Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
* Ability to interpret an extensive variety of business and technical instructions in a variety of forms and deal with abstract and/or concrete variables.
* Ability to define approaches to bring un-focused issues to resolution.
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