IT Project Manager
Column Technical Services is hiring a skilled IT Project Manager to provide oversight and coordination for planning and executing of low and mid-level complexity software implementation and migrations for the company. Come and join a well-established organization and apply today to learn more about this terrific opportunity.
Role Summary: The project manager provides oversight and coordination for planning and execution of low- and medium-complexity software implementations and migrations for the company. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our vendors and other team members to ensure successful and timely completion of our projects.You will partner with internal and external teams and other resources and utilize industry-standard tools and best practices. A key accountability for the position will be to ensure high-priority issues are escalated appropriately and communication timely.
The successful candidate for the position will also take on additional projects across our enterprise as needed. You will play a critical role in the way we deliver our projects that meet or exceed deliverables.
Responsibilities:- Drive accountability of actions across the core and extended teams.
- Report and escalate issues to management as needed to ensure project success.
- Manage relationships with clients, internal teams, and all stakeholders.
- Consistently review the project dependencies and risks to ensure these are being effectively managed across the relevant stakeholder groups.
- Create, maintain, and distribute project documentation.
- Define business cases using input from the stakeholders.
- Lead client facing status meetings to communicate objectives, plans, statuses, and results clearly, focusing on key points.
- Perform project close out steps to include identifying lessons learned, / best practices, to inform the success of future project.
- Ability to interact effectively and professionally with all levels of management, employees and customers by email, phone and in person.
Provide mentoring to less experienced staff as needed.-Function as a champion for your projects, adapt and address unique challenges in collaborative and creative ways.-Manage a portfolio of multiple projects with function-wide and/or company-wide impact.
Examples of this might include highly technical, substantial budget, high visibility, long tail, multi-stakeholder crossing functional groups.-In addition to project management, may also perform some of the work defined within the project roles and responsibilities.