US LBM IT Project Manager

What You Will Do

• Oversight of projects to achieve project success in areas of Scope, Schedule, Budget, and realized Benefits.
• Identification of project options, development of business cases, and securing required approvals.
• Leadership of requirements gathering and planning process, working closely with key stakeholders.
• Definition of appropriate project scope aligned to corporate strategies.
• Identification and management of critical paths, considering upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Coordination with other key initiatives and resolution of project conflicts.
• Development of project plans, key milestone schedules, and cost/benefit analysis.
• Management of project financials including budgeting, forecasting, and tracking actuals.
• Monitoring and managing the project schedule and its dependencies.
• Facilitation of PMO level reviews of project status and health.
• Management and mitigation of issues and risks, and communication to senior leadership.
• Application of change management processes and tools to support adoption of required changes.
• Identification and management of proposed changes to projects, working with business stakeholders and project managers.
• Collaboration with IT and business partners to identify and schedule all work for end-to-end deployment.
• Ensuring project milestones are accomplished and overall committed timelines are met.
• Communication of updates on major milestones and keeping all stakeholders informed of progress and issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems or related field required.
• 4-6 years of project management experience required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Experience with either Agile or waterfall project management techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to lead small to medium-sized project teams.
• Technical competency in IT/Systems, combined with business acumen to understand and translate between business and technical requirements.
• Innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, comfortable multitasking and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding presentation and interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to direct multiple projects in parallel in a highly matrix, fast-paced, multi-site organization experiencing rapid growth.
• Ability to map related tasks into a plan and communicate interdependencies with other projects and programs.
• Ability to track and coordinate resources and tasks across multiple organizations and/or projects.
• Most work is remote with some travel likely to Operating Companies and US LBM locations along with business-related meetings & conferences.
• Ability to lead and work in remote teams across time zones and geographies.
• May have to work off-hours if there are critical problems requiring IT intervention.
• May be weekend work if projects or assignments necessitate activity when workers are out of the office.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification from PMI preferred.
• Agile certification preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Certification from IASSC preferred.
• Change Management certification preferred.