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- Manages and directs cross functional project teams on IT projects.
- Develops, coordinates, and maintains integrated project timelines for all assigned projects.
- Facilitates the IT definition of project scope, goals, deliverables, project tasks and resource requirements.
- Aligns with business project owner on scope of project.
- Responsible for IT resource planning, IT guidance, budget estimation, and change control.
- Facilitates project oversight meetings and daily scrum meetings to discuss issues, risks, project status, business engagement, testing, and implementation. Communicates risks, issues, and progress back to the business program manager.
- Works closely with program managers and functional leaders to ensure projects meet all metrics including quality, savings, budgets and schedules.
- Works with resource managers and individual contributors to identify and assign the right resource at various stages of the project life cycle.
- Ensures that all the technology projects follow approved procedures for Program Management, SDLC, Procurement, and Production Change Control.
- Identifies and solves project issues effectively and manages risks.
- Excellent vendor manager who is able to write SOWs, RFPs, and able to keep vendors accountable to timelines and deliverables.
- Able to manage to a project budget and execute decisions that are fiscally responsible.
- Coordinate and lead IT test scenarios and IT requirements testing.
- Owns defect tracking and resolution. Coordinates with the business to prioritize defect resolution.
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Information Technology or Equivalent experience. MBA or advanced degree desired
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a combination of areas such as operations, program/project management, finance, information technology, ERP Systems, Application Development or IT Infrastructure.
- SAP experience
- Project Management Certification (PMI)
- Working knowledge of IT project finances including capitalization
- Must be able to travel up to 25% internationally and domestically to perform assigned duties
- Ability to work with all levels of internal and external stakeholders and to negotiate timelines that maximize resource utilization, adhere to IT delivery commitments, and meet business timelines and objectives
- Able to work with business and IT teams to manage scope and follow procedures for amending scope when necessary
- Able to see into the future, anticipate roadblocks, plan for the unexpected, forecast project spending and timelines based on solid project plans and negotiate resource commitments when projects vary from schedule
- Able to follow-through on actions, maintains a high-do/say ratio, completes work and closes projects
- Able to manage and build rapport with a diverse work-force of local, remote, and international team members
- Able to analyze information, organize facts, separate fact from fiction, present, influence, persuade, and lead
- Able to leverage past experiences and institutional knowledge without "reinventing the wheel"
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office computer systems and applications, with intermediate to advanced skill levels in ERP/MRP Systems, spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, Microsoft Project, and project management
- Working conditions are normal for an office environment