This position is for a Project Manager on the Release Management Team and requires managing in a highly matrixed organization to support quarterly and monthly releases. This position is both inward and outward facing and requires a candidate to be detail-oriented and comfortable working with multiple external clients and internal stakeholders. This requires the ability to convey timely, consistent, and meaningful information and to appropriately adjusts communication style and method based on audience. This role involves effective use of listening skills, ensures that information is understood by the intended audience, takes detailed notes, and habitually sends out meeting minutes.
Success in this role would mean managing releases by collaborating with a multitude of teams and reaching consensus in the creation of the deployment schedules, meeting all internal and external milestones, and understanding the interdependency between implementation tasks.

PURPOSE:
Sr. IT Project Manager, leads, plans, executes, monitors, controls and closes projects for the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO). This role oversees and directs complex $5M+ enterprise-wide corporate initiatives involving 15-50+ stakeholder groups across several organizational work streams utilizing Agile methodology to deliver results

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
25% Actively plans and manages large scale Waterfall or Agile projects holistically around scheduled program increments and milestones, scope, cost, resource health and risks while collaborating with stakeholders in key meetings resulting in successful project delivery

25% Plans and owns project finances which includes timing implications and key payment dates while proactively reporting status, scorecard creation and fulfilling project analysis requests by using critical and creative thinking

25% Leads and contributes to vendor selection and procurement activities under program manager guidance while identifying, producing and fulfilling resource and go-live operational plans to ensure project success

25% Prepares key documents, present business cases and produces other reports as needed while collaborating with stakeholders to bring projects through project funding conversations and initiation ceremonies

Required Skills

- Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
- Experience: 5 years' experience leading projects in a cross-functional, technical systems implementation
- Strong Financial Management ability including comprehension of project financials, profit and loss and the ability to create and manage and adhere to a broader project budget.
- Strong Communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to successfully lead in a matrixed environment

Licenses/Certifications
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI - Optional
SAFe Scrum Master Certification- Optional