IT Project Manager

Qualifications

Required skills

• Leadership of complex, cross-functional business and technology projects
• Demonstrated ability to drive commitments, decisions, accountability, and results
• Integrated schedule development and dependency management
• Risk, issue, change, and escalation management
• Executive and stakeholder communication
• Meeting facilitation and structured decision-making
• Vendor and third-party delivery coordination
• Ability to organize ambiguous work and translate objectives into executable plans
• Microsoft 365 and project scheduling/reporting tools Preferred skills:
• Service. Now Strategic Portfolio Management
• Maximo Application Suite or comparable enterprise asset management platform
• ERP, supply chain, inventory, procurement, or Procure-to-Pay implementation experience
• Infor Cloud. Suite
• Utility, infrastructure, or other operationally complex industry experience
• Project management principles and practices for complex technology and business transformation initiatives
• Project planning, scheduling, budgeting, governance, change control, and risk management
• Organizational change and stakeholder engagement principles
• Enterprise system implementation lifecycle
• Maximo Application Suite, enterprise asset management, supply chain, or ERP environments, preferred but not required -MS Office, MS Teams, Service. Now SPM (preferred) -Project Management Professional (PMP) Responsibilities:
• Lead multiple complex, interdependent business and technology projects from initiation through implementation and closure, maintaining clear ownership of scope, schedule, resources, and outcomes.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans that identify deliverables, milestones, dependencies, decision points, resource needs, and measurable success criteria.
• Drive execution by establishing clear commitments, monitoring progress, addressing missed deliverables, removing obstacles, and escalating decisions when necessary.
• Build effective partnerships with business owners, technology teams, vendors, program leadership, and executive sponsors to align priorities and maintain accountability.
• Identify and actively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and changes, including developing practical mitigation and recovery plans.
• Facilitate productive meetings and decision-making sessions that result in documented decisions, assigned actions, responsible owners, and due dates.
• Provide concise, accurate, and audience-appropriate project reporting, including accomplishments, planned work, schedule and budget status, risks, issues, decisions, and leadership support needed.
• Apply established Utilities Technology Project Management processes while adapting delivery methods to the complexity, urgency, and business needs of each project.