IT Project Manager (Temporary NE)

Job Summary
The IT Project Manager manages IT-focused projects from inception through implementation and closeout.

Primary Objectives

• Coordinate multiple projects and their interdependencies ensuring all assigned projects are completed according to enterprise standards, meet project objectives, and are delivered on time and within budget.
• Effectively collect, measure, track, and communicate operational metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for use by business unit.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage projects throughout the project life cycle and including appropriate communication, scheduling, resource allocation, scope definition, and proactive identification and remediation of obstacles to project delivery.
• Track milestones and tasks with assigned teams and ensure project milestones are achieved on time and on budget.
• Work with senior management and key stakeholders to define project scope, cost and value, and business case deliverables that support departmental goals.
• Develop and revise project plans, monitor and report out on project budgets and financial health, work with users to understand problems, focus on issue resolution, and escalate issues to leadership as needed to meet timelines.
• Proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential risks, and devise mitigation actions and/or contingency plans.
• Manage business case creation and sign off including project cost and benefit estimation as well as required resources to achieve project goals. Assess and recommend staffing levels and make the appropriate resource requests if necessary during project implementation life cycle.
• Coach, mentor, and motivate project team members and contractors. Create and execute training plans to ensure that each team member's skills and body of knowledge remains up-to-date for the organization.
• Conduct project post-mortems with project team and other key stakeholders and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Track and publish project KPIs for use by the business process managers with the Business unit leaders in order to demonstrate project management value on individual projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business Management or similar degree or equivalent combination of coursework and experience in directly-related field required

Licenses and Certifications

• Project Management Professional Certification or other recognized certification or equivalent years of experience required

Work Experience

• 5+ years' project management experience, including delivering both IT enabled and business process improvement projects required
• Global transportation and logistics management experience preferred

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Familiar with various project management methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, RUP, ADM.
• Demonstrated proficiency with project management tools (Clarizen, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Azure Dev Ops, Jira, TFS) and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including effective delivery of executive level reports and in-person presentations.
• Ability to produce high-quality work as part of a geographically dispersed team.
• Excellent communication and coalition building skills with an ability to balance, negotiate, and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to build strategic partnerships.
• Demonstrated skills in resource organization, project/task prioritization, and schedule development.
• Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks on highly visible projects with aggressive timelines.
• Ability to work a non-standard work schedule, including evenings and weekends as needed.

Competencies

• Delivers Results Rigorously drives self and others to achieve high levels of individual and organization performance.
• Engages & Inspires Others Leads with energy, self-confidence and understanding in ways that motivate colleagues to achieve more than they thought possible.
• Focuses on the Customer & Market Continuously evaluates what is important to the customer/client and develops products or solutions that exceed expectations.
• Makes Sound Business Decisions Makes timely and well-informed decisions that advance critical priorities, capitalize on new opportunities, and resolve problems.
• Practices our Values Supports and models The Pasha Way; conduct reflects Excellence, Honesty, Integrity, Innovation and Teamwork.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS, WORK ENVIRONMENT, AND TRAVEL
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Hear and speak with sufficient clarity to understand and engage in telephonic information exchange; hear and understand verbal instructions; give and receive information verbally in person or via communication device - Often
• Walk/travel within office environment, crouch/bend to access floor-level storage - Often
• Use hands/fingers to operate office equipment, type/complete data input, write - Often
• Reach with hands, arms; lift, move and manipulate objects weighing up to 20 pounds - Regularly
• Sight sufficient to read instructions, documents, and screen-based information - Often
• Use hands/fingers to manipulate and file documents, folders, small objects - Regularly

Working Environment
This role requires work that may involve the following environmental conditions:

• Corporate office environment

Travel
15% Must be able to travel independently to other corporate locations for extended periods.

Screening Requirements
Background Checks

Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, except as prohibited by law.
The information included in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive or exhaustive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.