Information Technology Project Manager (Remote)

Remote position: EST hours!

The IT Project Manager is an integral member of the technology team. In this role, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of technology projects to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the approved scope. You will develop detailed project plans, monitor milestones, produce status reports, and other project documents.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• In this role, you will be responsible for:
• Work closely with project team and business stakeholders to define scope, task, budgets, and timelines.
• Meet with business stakeholders to determine and define project scope and objectives.
• Organize and lead project status and working meetings.
• Create and track project plans, measure performance and hold project teams accountable.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risk and issues.
• Monitor scope, timelines, project costs and reporting on various KPI’s and identify areas of improvement.
• Present project status to executive level stakeholders
• Manage external vendors and contract resources
• Understand the impact of pending change and work with cross functional department to develop a change management strategy
• Negotiating project plans, time frames, and the trade-off with stakeholders while keeping management of impact to project while appropriately balancing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risks.
• Develop, analyze, and manage multiple project plans and appropriate project management documentation.

REQUIREMENTS:

• The ideal candidate will have experience within a fast-paced environment with rapid growth in IT technologies. The IT Project Manager must be versed at interacting with and influencing multifunctional teams of internal and external stakeholders. You will be leading multiple projects simultaneously so the ability to organize and prioritize activities and helping others organize and prioritize will be important in being successful. Experience working in a stage gate oriented and deadline driven environment is also critical.Relevant work experience in technology with a broad understanding across multiple IT disciplines.
• Excellent professional development skills, such as oral and written communications, personal credibility, teamwork, collaboration, work planning, and estimating.
• Highly organized, self-motivated, customer-oriented, and able to work independently as well as within a team.
• Skill in building and motivating technical teams and possess ability to build strategic relationships and influence people at all levels of the organization.
• Comfort in a fast-paced, multi-tasked environment
• 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst (BA) in collecting and documenting requirements
• 6+ years of experience as a Project Manager including system and application deployment
• Skilled in communication, highly adaptable, and capable of handling multiple projects and project teams
• Experience using Jira and Smartsheets
• PMP certification – preferred