IT Project Manager III

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates and monitors multiple IT projects from initiation through delivery.
• Serves as the liaison between IT and the business line customer to ensure that all targets and deliverables are met.
• Develops project plans and cost estimates.
• Handles cross-project interdependencies in order to avoid potential impacts and identify optimizations in regard to scope, schedule, budget, and resource utilization.
• Reviews data on complex issues, makes good business decisions, and ensures solutions are implemented.
• Ensures all project deliverables meet the customer's time/quality/cost expectations.
• Manages and provides oversight and direction to allocated project team members to ensure quality and timely delivery of project requirements.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of related project management experience in systems development, application development and implementation or the equivalent experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, engineering or an equivalent combination of education, training and professional experience.
• Understanding of the key principles of cross functional project management (ex: Time, Quality, Cost).
• Agile Scrum experience highly desirable.
• Excellent financial competence.
• Solid track record of excellent project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and collaboratively.
• Critical thinker with solid judgment and strong initiative.
• Proficiency in collaboration across multiple and diverse groups.
• Strong experience with managing projects through all aspects of a project life cycle.
• Ability to delegate, effectively prioritize own and project team members workload.
• Ability to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications such as Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Word, JIRA.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, time management and organizational skills.
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams highly desired.
• PMP and/or Agile Certification highly desired.

Nice to Have

• IT experience supporting the scientific industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, engineering or an equivalent combination of education, training and professional experience.