Director, IT Project Managment

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent IT projects (e.g., application development, systems implementation, cloud migrations, infrastructure upgrades, integrations).
• Define and manage project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria in collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, resource plans, and budgets; track progress and adjust as needed.
• Partner with IT and Business Project Leaders to enable communication between business units, IT teams, vendors, and leadership.
• Facilitate project kickoff meetings, status meetings, and steering committee updates.
• Provide clear, concise, and timely communication on project status, risks, issues, and decisions to all levels, including executives.
• Work with Core Project team to identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests; drive mitigation and resolution.
• Ensure projects adhere to organizational PMO standards, SDLC/Agile practices, security policies, and compliance requirements.
• Establish and track KPIs/metrics to measure project performance and benefits realization.
• Partner with IT and Business Project Leads to lead cross-functional project teams, including business analysts, developers, architects, QA, infrastructure, security, and external vendors.
• Lead through influence to set project expectations, assign tasks, and monitor workload; promote accountability and high performance.
• Mentor and coach junior project managers or team members in project management best practices.
• Continuously look for ways to improve IT project delivery processes, tools, and templates.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to the evolution of IT PMO standards and methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 5–7+ years of experience managing IT projects, including large, complex, and/or multi-year initiatives.
• Proven track record delivering projects on time, within budget, and in alignment with business objectives.
• Experience with both traditional (Waterfall) and Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid).
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT concepts (e.g., applications, databases, integrations/APIs, data lakes, networking, cloud, security).
• Demonstrated experience managing third-party vendors and system integrators.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including with senior leadership.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

Preferred

• Professional certifications: PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum (CSM, PSM), or equivalent.
• Experience in Agriculture and/or Controlled Environment Agriculture.
• Experience with project and portfolio management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Smartsheet, Monday.com).