Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Conducting initial project planning, soliciting estimates, requirements and user stories, incorporating change management, establishing timelines, and monitoring progress to ensure timely completion of projects.

• Obtaining and allocating resources: assigning tasks to agile delivery team, allocating resources effectively to ensure project success.

• Ensuring compliance with information privacy and security assessments, and project governance, procedures and practices, including escalating unresolved issues.

• Monitoring project deliverables to ensure they meet quality standards and align with project requirements, managing testing activities as required.

• Content and business writing and maintaining accurate project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and meeting minutes, for communication, future reference and auditing purposes.

Qualifications

• The successful candidate will have the knowledge and skills typically acquired through a degree or equivalent diploma program in technology supplemented by formal project management training and certification including PMP (preferred) or PRINCE2.

• At least 5 years of significant and recent, related experience in a leadership capacity on complex initiatives, including the ability to lead and motivate a team, delegate tasks, manage vendors, manage a budget, and provide guidance and support throughout the project lifecycle in an agile delivery environment.

• A strong background in projects within IT Asset Management or Device Management domains, including experience with ITAM frameworks and best practices. Familiarity with cyber security and Zero Trust best practices.

• Excellent organizational, planning and scheduling skills with very strong attention to detail.

• Excellent time management skills to prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, and ensure timely completion of project deliverables.

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including the ability to communicate complicated technical issues effectively to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences: executive and senior leadership; product managers; project agile team members; vendor-partners; service providers; and other stakeholders.

• Familiarity with predictive and hybrid project management as well as managing projects in kanban/agile style and utilizing work management tools such as Jira.

• Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly identify potential issues and risks and craft innovative solutions.

• Experience navigating interdependencies across multiple business teams, agile delivery teams (Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid methodologies) and external vendor partners.

• Effective negotiation with sponsors of other initiatives, product owners of teams with competing priorities and deadlines, and others.

• Application of appropriate judgment and discretion in the resolution or escalation of project issues and recommendations to the Project Sponsor, Steering or Governance committees.

• In depth knowledge of standard project management methodologies and tools including scope and budget management, work breakdown structures and scheduling, stakeholder management, communication planning, risk assessment, readiness assessment, etc.

• Fluent in Confluence, Jira, the Microsoft Office Suite/SharePoint, and MS Project.