Senior Project Manager IT

What You Need To Know

Overview

The Senior Project Manager IT accountable for the successful end-to-end delivery of strategic projects, programs, and portfolios. The job leads projects, programs, portfolios or leads an Agile ART or several agile teams, through the systems development life cycle from planning through hyper care, working in close partnership with IT and business leaders including executive sponsors. The work also includes leading, collaboration, coaching team members and influencing others outside their direct team to ensure the success of initiatives.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

• Experience in managing large and complex technical projects
• Understanding of fundamentals of IT Architecture & Systems to deliver solutions is a must
• Experience in integrating multiple systems (logic and data) across the enterprise is required
• Functional knowledge and experience in implementing large and complex solutions either related to software, data or Infrastructure projects is required
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools is required
• Ability to create and follow work and data flow charts is required
• Need to understand Software Development Life Cycle and various delivery methodologies like Waterfall and Agile

Primary Responsibilities

• Engage and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders
• Continuously monitor costs and implement improvements to drive down the cost to plan and deliver
• Drive process improvements in project delivery working in collaboration with key stakeholders in support of business objectives
• Ensure key stakeholders can properly collect, prioritize, plan for, and execute projects
• Execute required change management activities including training and communications
• Leverage best practices, implement new processes, procedures, and controls to improve delivery capabilities overall
• In collaboration with key stakeholders, forecast financial and resource needs to meet established objectives for delivery
• Keep an eye to latest trends and best practices within the Portfolio and Project management space
• Applies significant knowledge of industry trends, developments, and capabilities to address and improve business capabilities
• Ensures that solutions and services deliver at or above expected business value
• Define test metrics and monitor testing to ensure testing is completed per project schedule
• Create work break down structures to support project delivery and track plan
• Develop level of efforts by Develops and recommends changes to policies and procedures
• Provide strong leadership over a diverse team of individuals including providing coaching and guidance to team members
• Develop communications, training strategies and execute against them
• Create and maintain project budgets
• Identify, analyze, track, and manage to closure project risks and issues
• Manage and organize project teams to support project needs
• Manage projects to successfully meet business requirements and outcomes
• working with resource managers as input to finalize project plans
• Use level of efforts to assist in developing project budgets
• Manage project progress and create effective status reports
• Manage all required project documentation per SGWS PMO standards
• Define resource plan and manage throughout project life cycle

• Time Management:
• Define activity
• Sequence activity
• Estimate the duration of activity
• Develop a schedule
• Maintain a schedule

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Seven (7)+ years leading system development or relevant work experience
• Size of project is $500K -$1M, or up to 5 small projects at a time, teams less/25 people or less
• Led systems development methodology and infrastructure project delivery
• Ability to lead a team environment with Agile delivery values
• Experience managing multiple medium to complex projects across multiple functions including planning, analysis, design, development, implementation, and satisfaction of project requirements
• Experience managing and mentoring project management staff including providing stretch opportunities and coaching to develop team and deliver results
• Proven experience successfully managing business and technical resources under an integrated project plan to ensure the alignment of resources
• Ability to take ownership for managing all aspects of project management from discovery through delivery implementation
• Experience presenting, escalating, and providing solutions to senior leadership
• Experience managing a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties. Proven record of focusing on building trusted relationship with those responsible for execution
• Ability to quickly assess projects at the onset for areas of risk, identify gaps and recommend areas for improvement
• Experience in change management related aspects of project execution and ability to incorporate change considerations in planning / execution of projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree
• Project Management (PMI) or Agile Certification

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.