Senior IT Project Manager

Job Overview

The SR. IT Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of the project lifecycle in support of one or more strategic initiatives in various functional domains across the company.  You will bring projects in on time, on budget, and delivering promised results.  Your role will span IT infrastructure, network, security and business applications related projects/implementation.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the full lifecycle of complex IT projects and/or programs from initiation to closure, ensuring successful delivery within budget, scope, and schedule constraints.
• Effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously according the PMI standards.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional teams to define stakeholders, requirements, scope, milestones, dependencies, costs, success criteria, and resources.
• Develop and maintain project management plans and deliver projects on-time, on budget, and with promised results.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular project status reports to stakeholders, including project health, risks, and issues.
• Manage project risks and issues, identifying and mitigating potential roadblocks and providing solutions to ensure successful outcomes.
• Manage project scope changes and ensuring that they are documented, reviewed, and approved by stakeholders.
• Create, manage, and maintain the project schedule, from initial creation throughout entire project life cycle.
• Manage project change control affecting project constraints including time, cost, scope, resources, quality, and risk.
• Develop and manage end-to-end communications plans and manage project communications at all levels, from shop floor to top floor.
• Create and maintain all forms of project documentation and records.
• Collaborate with IT leaders to develop and rollout IT PMO standards and processes. 
• Effectively manage product budget and work with a project controller as needed.
• Effectively liaise with other project managers (both internal and external) and across functions within the organization to ensure alignment across all project aspects
• Ability to work with various business functions/disciplines, systems integrators, contractors, or other partners
• Facilitate post implementation reviews and lessons learned to contribute to continuous improvement and development
• All GLC employees are expected to perform any assignment or job task according to the stated safety policies and procedures.
• All GLC employees are expected to produce our products in a manner that exceeds the quality and value expectation of our customers and consumers by adhering to Good Manufacturing Practices, Policies and Procedures outlined in our Safe Quality Food Program.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience
• PMP certification
• At least 8 years of experience as a Technical Project Manager, leading and delivering complex technical projects successfully. 
• Strong teamwork and cross-functional experience to problem solving and the ability to make sound, independent decisions
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Direct work experience with project management tools
• Direct work experience managing projects with a budget of at least $1,000,000 from concept to completion
• Ability to handle multiple tasks beyond the routine
• High degree of independence, intuition, and initiative
• Able to work in the US without corporate sponsorship now or in the future
• Must be willing to travel at least 25%

Preferred Education and Experience

• New COTS implementation experience (ERP, TMS, WMS, SCP, PLM, MDM, etc) 
• Complex IT systems integration
• Manufacturing systems experience (MES, PLCs, SCADA)
• IT Infrastructure domain knowledge (Storage, compute, networking, telephony, end user systems)
• System domain knowledge (especially SAP)
• IT PMO establishment and execution
• Ability to provide leadership, support, communication and direction to others
   

Working Conditions

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