Title: Sr. IT Project Manager
Location: Tampa, FL 33605
Duration: 1+ Year
*** Knowledge of SAP & ERP ***
A minimum of 4 years’ experience in managing IT projects.
Job Description:
The ideal candidate will:
· Manage all facets of the IT project, its teams, and associated activities within the IT department to a successful completion by meeting budget, schedule and performance goals.
· Lead teams of Information Technology professionals (internal team members, on-site contractors, and vendors) as well as internal business partners, providing leadership to assure the successful completion of IT projects of various sizes.
· Develop and maintain project schedules, and drive and execute projects to successful completion.
· Facilitate and lead meetings, collaborating across all levels of the organization at the Director, Sr.VP, CIO and above.
Scope of services:
· Leads project teams to clearly define project scope, to obtain cost estimates, to build schedules and to assign named resources to activities.
· Practices exceptional project management skills, utilizing industry standards and best practices.
· Able to understand and adhere to the principles delineated in the Project Management Playbook and able to drive an effective utilization of the SDLC methodology.
· Develops and manages stakeholder expectations.
· Obtains, documents, and communicates estimates for schedule, budget and performance of assigned projects.
· Restates complex technical information in a format appropriate to the audience.
· Ensures appropriate documentation and entry of project information into the Project Repository.
· Identifies risks, partners with team members to mitigate risk, and promptly communicates risks and issues to the appropriate stakeholders.
Minimum Requirements:
· Solid background in Information Technology, with at least 7+ years of experience in hands-on IT project management with the most recent 2 years in the senior or equivalent level PM role.
· Strong leadership, planning, organizing, and interpersonal skills are required.
· Strong documentation experience with ability to forecast for time / cost in terms of resources and labor.
· PMP Certification
Additional Experience Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- SAP/ERP Knowledge
· Application Development and/or infrastructure experience.
· Managing implementations that include a vendor solution (and therefore vendor management) would be particularly beneficial.
· Upgrades of vendor solutions are a common project type. (As vendors have a new software release and we opt to upgrade their software, there may be infrastructure implications, and there is usually some internal customization and/or interface work involved.)
· Projects go through the full SDLC life cycle using a methodology that most closely resembles waterfall however, other projects follow an Agile or a hybrid Agile/Waterfall methodology, and therefore experience in Agile type projects would be beneficial.