Project Manager

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job Summary:
Responsible for managing diverse, very complex IT projects or multiple IT projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality and cost. Utilizes expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met. Communicates with business partners (including senior leadership team members) to provide timely and accurate information and status updates, and to work through project issues. Projects involve multiple disciplines in the IT function. Utilizes project management skills and methodologies to deliver defined projects on time and within budget to meet business needs.
Job Responsibilities And Requirements:
Specific current responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Detailed Project Planning including developing and maintaining project schedule and key milestones according to project and governance standards and best practices and with appropriate tools ( MS Project, Dashboards)
• Development of standards, practices and knowledge management for project management discipline
• Project Estimates including gaining a full understanding of the project scope, technologies required, and business goals.
• input to PEP process regarding project team members to their respective function managers
• relationship management and communication with key internal business resources, in particular partnering with Business Project Sponsor (generally VP level), Vendors (per project needs), senior business management (avp level, director level) and ETO leadership (director, avp, vp level) on critical project activities, issues management, and resource acquisition. Includes but not limited to biweekly status updates to SLT
• Project Communication, Project Scope Control , Issue and Risk Management including identifying and resolving project risks and issues that directly impact each project; Project tracking , test planning and execution
• Project Financial Management including developing and subsequently maintaining project budgets and ops plans, cashflow models, and ensuring all financial information is properly represented in SAP and communicated in an accurate manner. Project/Program Manager drives project to successful financial completion as well as on-time delivery
• Resource Project Planning including identifying key skills required and subsequently negotiating and attaining appropriate staff to execute internal and external (e.g., ETO) projects
• Coaching, mentoring, motivation and supervision project team members to take positive action and meet deliverables in a matrixed environment. Develop and manage high performing teams
• Active management of team activities for packaging and release of blocks of activity into production (Release Management)
• Ensure designs are implemented as defined, with reverse modeling to effective implementation of recommended solutions (Traceability)
• Participate in planning, managing acquisition and divestiture of systems operations in support of RS merger and acquisition strategy
• Project Management responsibilities may include business projects (e.g., new product development, marketing campaigns) or technical projects (e.g., environment changes, software upgrades)
• (Depending on experience level) Management role will include management of Programs-overseeing the activity of multiple project managers, managing the overall direction of multiple Tracks for projects of a more strategic nature
• Note: the next four years will be a period of major transition for RS Systems, effectively changing our organization, all development and production practices, and the entire portfolio of underlying technology. Managing through this transition, developing best practices, standing up the new disciplines, moving people through the transition, and managing flexible resource pools (contractor, outsourced) while “keeping the lights on” in current infrastructure will be of utmost criticality in achieving divisional and ETO goals
Federation responsibilities:
• Partner with ETO management to support and enable ISO and enterprise initiatives. Support enterprise processes and disciplines. Improve cross organization management effectiveness. Contribute to success of RS Systems leadership team.
• Drive consistency in technology/workforce across IT community
Skills
• Ability to present technology concepts, opportunities and implications to business audiences
• Effective communication across multiple levels of business and technology partners and team
• Establish and grow partnerships across business and technology organizations
• Financial Management – basic understanding of accounting and business financials, manage projects to the bottom line.
• Business Development – support the business strategy through project development, identifying opportunities to enhance business processes.
• Communication – facilitate team and client meetings effectively, hold regular status meetings with the project team, keep project team informed of changes within the business, communicate relative project information to upper management, resolve and/or escalate issues when necessary.
• Technical knowledge – general understanding of application programming, database and system design, understand the companies IT architecture, maintain awareness of emerging technologies.
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with SDLC and corresponding Project Management tools
• Proven track record in leading a highly technical delivery organization
• Ability to present technology concepts, implications and opportunities to business audiences
• Effective communication with multiple levels of business, technical and team
• Strong partnership with business and technical organizations
• Ability to establish a vision and motivate others to achieve that vision
• Creation/ongoing management of a high performance team
• Proven Collaboration & Leadership skills
• Strong ability to adapt to changing priorities in a very fast paced environment
• Strong conflict resolution / negotiation skills
Competency Requirements:
• IT Leadership: Dynamic and versatile leader with five or more years of progressive information technology expertise and leadership experience; Leads with integrity and by example; entrepreneurial orientation; seasoned business judgment and high level of business acumen; develops high performing teams to drive business results; manages effectively with ambiguity; proven ability to deliver.
• Strategic Management: Effectively anticipates future possibilities, opportunities and risks through understanding of the Company’s businesses’ competitive strategies, marketplace and opportunities; drives technological and cultural transformations necessary to effectively position the various businesses for growth.
• Innovative Leadership: Applies encompassing view of corporate and business strategies and operations to drive the thinking, behaviors and actions of the IT community to ensure that technology positions the Company for optimal and ongoing competitive advantage while protecting its information assets; continually looking ahead, anticipating business needs while aligning trends to business opportunities.
• Strong Core Values & Tough-Mindedness: Results-based, action oriented; prudent risk taker; effectively balances business-specific and enterprise-wide needs to make difficult decisions associated with highly complex business environment and varying demands of multiple constituencies to ensure the company’s best interests are served.
• Personal Presence: Commands respect and credibility inside and outside the company; effectively and comfortably influences at multiple levels with in internal and external constituencies; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Team Player / Relationship Building: Collaborative with strong interpersonal skills; able to relate to and build strong relationships with diverse internal and external audiences/constituencies; effectively delegates and empowers staff; ability to drive effective delivery through influence vs. control.
• Technology Expertise: Five years experience with and strong working knowledge of complex technology landscapes; stays current with business-technology industry and developments and visualizes pragmatic strategy bringing applicability to business; maintains working understanding of technology across many disciplines.
Steve Stern
Solution Partners, Inc.
1770 N. Park St.
Suite 100
Naperville, IL 60563
Web: ****

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