Intermediate IT Project Manager

Job Description

Manages multiple projects from initiation through implementation, ensuring timely, budget-conscious, and scope-compliant delivery.

Facilitates the development of project scope statements, defining key milestones, deliverables, and timelines.

Collaborates with Subject Matter Experts to develop Work Breakdown Structures and project schedules, identifying predecessors, dependencies, and critical paths.

Negotiates and influences cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate resourcing levels are engaged and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.

Evaluates actual progress, provides regular schedule updates, and manages conflicts, issues, and risks through to resolution.

Proactively manages changes to project scope, schedule, and budget, identifying impacts and providing recommendations.

Updates project tracking systems to monitor details including resource allocation, change requests, issues, risks, overdue tasks, key decisions, milestones, and deliverables, providing formal and ad hoc reports as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrates the understanding of strategic business goals, acts as a thought partner, helps stakeholders articulate needs and defines clear scope statements that include SMART goals, and ensures the team focuses on achieving business outcomes.
• Expert at facilitating project team meetings.
• Proficient at driving a project forward, monitoring and communicating progress, proactively and effectively communicating in terms of cost, forecast, schedule, and assessment of risk/issues.
• Anticipates stakeholder needs, proactively keeps them informed, negotiates with them to reach consensus when priorities conflict, and tailors the message and delivery style as needed.
• Proven communication and negotiation skills – oral, written, presentation, formal and informal.
• Ability to easily read process flows and contribute to the development of new process flows as needed.
• Experienced utilizing project management processes, standards, and methodology.
• Knows when to act decisively even with limited information.
• Knowledgeable on the development of work breakdown structures, determination of interdependencies, identification of a project's critical path, estimation of level of effort, and using techniques to proactively manage the project to successfully deliver the goals and objectives of the project.
• Proven ability to create effective presentations.
• Experience in anticipating risks and developing a comprehensive risk response plan to keep projects on track.
• Experience in persuasion and influencing by understanding various points of view and achieving meaningful interactions. Comfortable negotiating and managing conflict.
• Experienced in taking in a wide range of information, from multiple sources, pinpoints key insights, identifies root causes, determines potential options and impacts, and provides recommendations.
• Ability to work in a constantly changing environment with competing priorities.
• Takes pride in delivering exceptional quality on all assignments. Accepts responsibility for overall project success.
• Able to communicate in ways that create change, manage expectations, and enable alignment across teams.
• Able to utilize analytical, creative, implicative, strategic, and tactical thinking techniques based on the scenario.
• Able to negotiate with managers to resource a project, resolve allocation issues, and ensure skilled resources are assigned and available at the right times.
• Acts as a role model; inspires teams to go beyond their role expectations to help each other and exceed project goals.
• Exhibits an appropriate sense of urgency, ownership, and focus as it relates to customer satisfaction, delivery, or issues that might arise.
• Willingness to challenge standards, tailor methodology, and adapt project course to maximize its success.
• Project management tools and/or software packages, specifically Project Online.
• MS PowerPoint.
• MS Office tools.
• Visio.
• Mindmap tools.
• Knowledge of SDLC tools and/or software packages.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or Healthcare (Preferred).

Work Experience

• 3+ years managing large, complex IT projects (Required).

Additional Information

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Pay Range

• $72,786.83 - $135,385.27