IT Project & Portfolio Manager - Des Moines, IA

Duties

• Ability to work within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)
• Ability to interact with, educate, learn from, and drive business and IT teams.
• Ability to work effectively under very broad direction with general supervision.
• Ability to motivate team and meet deadlines in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
• Ability to gather and organize multiple simultaneous complex business process scenarios.
• Ability to break down complex tasks into actionable work items, sequenced appropriately.
• Ability to manage scope creep with a focus on delivering a minimum viable product.
• Excellent organizational, presentation, interpersonal and team building skills.
• Excellent time management and project planning/strategizing skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience with managing client expectations, implementing service improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple parallel work efforts.
• Track project progress, monitor and modify project schedules and provide status updates to project team. Escalate issues to management and/or appropriate leadership as appropriate.
• Provide insight and knowledge into improving processes related to portfolio, project and program management.

Required Skills

• Direct management of system integration projects.
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities.
• Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting).
• Extensive experience with planning, managing and tracking multiple major impact projects.
• Strong process development skills, w/ the ability to learn and understand concepts in order to interpret, document and formalize procedures.
• Strong process and gap analysis skills.
• Excellent project management skills, w/ the ability to multitask and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment.
• Demonstrated experience with working with business users to gather and document business requirements.
• Demonstrate ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and project activities simultaneously while meeting established deadlines.