Strategic Project Manager

Job Summary:

The Office of Strategy Management (OSM) serves as the organization’s connector between strategy and execution. We accomplish this by organizing and leading large projects designed to help IGS achieve its strategic goals and helping ensure the right people are doing the right thing at the right time. This is a highly visible team and a high-impact role.

As a Strategic Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for the management and facilitation of projects within the organization that goes beyond traditional project management tools; you’ll use your unique skill set to identify and solve problems while enabling momentum and movement on strategic initiatives. You’ll be responsible for all aspects of projects, including setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, monitoring project progress, and building and developing relationships with team members, vendors, and business partners involved in the projects. This is a highly visible team and high impact role.

Ideal Candidate:

You are a strong team player with a bias for action and creative, strategic, and expert problem solving skills, always thinking about contingencies and keeping options in your back pocket for those just-in-case situations. Never satisfied with good enough, you continuously identify things to do and gather the context needed to execute. Known expert, the team relies on you to keep tabs on everything going on and you never fail to deliver the goods; you have a keen attention for detail that helps keep people organized and on task. You excel at distilling complex issues into digestible summaries for all levels of the organization and use your stellar communication and influencing skills to forge strong relationships with our partners. Combining your social intelligence with your outcome-driven forecasting skills, you’re a relied upon strategic partner for the business. You are a calming presence, an organized thinker, and demonstrate grace under pressure with ease. While you utilize project management tools and methodologies, the way in which you approach and leverage them are even more important for success (see core and essential skills below).

The Office of Strategy Management’s core skills include:

• Organization: Identify logical patterns and complex topics. Determine next steps and how to logically move forward.

• Communication: Effectively convey and interpret information, tackle social issues including conflict, and contextualizing incoming and outgoing messages.

• Relationship-Oriented: Effectively co-create solutions with partners (understand which partners to involve and when, preferences for collaboration and how to navigate in problem solving)

• Problem Solver: Ability to determine why an issue is happening and determine how to resolve. Identify underlying issue by considering all contributing factors.

• Self-Aware Learner: Curious. Ability to observe and accurately interpret reactions and dynamically pivot as appropriate.

Essential Skills:

• Proven ability to lead through influence as an indirect leader

• Self-starter comfortable working autonomously, figuring out what needs to be done and acting while gathering context

• Strong communicator across highly varied audiences and channels

• Skilled facilitator that can not only drive and coordinate a meeting but can engage others, navigate conflict/tension, provide clarity and alignment

• Quick learner and dynamic problem solver who is comfortable challenging assumptions and offering solutions with incomplete information

• Ability to juggle and prioritize competing demands in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrates extreme flexibility with the rapid changes in the project landscape

• Relationship-oriented with the ability to connect with people of varying backgrounds, communication styles and seniority

• Ability to navigate difficult conversations and conflict resolution

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple small to medium scale projects from scoping through implementation and roll out.

• Act as a strategic, essential thought partner to business partners by being deeply in tune with their needs and perspectives, able to articulate their viewpoints and encompass their needs

• Lead key project meetings with various audiences including core project team, steering committee and stakeholders.

• Develop detailed project plans to capture scope, costs and schedule, and monitor and track progress, manage through changes, and measure success.

• Proactively communicate and report out on project updates on a consistent basis about strategy, adjustments and progress.

• Create project documentation including presentations, spreadsheets, diagrams, and process maps.

• Build relationships across cross-functional teams to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness, and successfully influence deliverables and results.

• Support the execution of strategic and operational plans.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent with 2—5 years of experience with a strong background in facilitating meetings, leading through influence, and partnering closely with leaders

• Proven experience leading and managing project teams in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment.

• Experienced communicator.

Salary Range:

$78,290.00 - $125,260.00

*This range reflects base pay only. Incentive earnings, like commissions or bonuses, are not included.

This role is also eligible for an annual incentive plan based on company performance. 

Our Offer to You:

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental, vision, and employer health savings account contributions

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching

• Tuition reimbursement, employee wellness programs, and other perks and discounts

• Paid leave policies

• And more, such as paid time off, flexible spending, employer paid life and disability, employee assistance program, and domestic partner benefits

Equal Opportunity Employment:

It is the policy of IGS Energy to ensure equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable federal and state regulations and guidelines. Employment discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, and veteran status or other legally protected class under applicable law is prohibited.