Patterson Companies, Inc. · 2 hours ago
Senior IT Project Manager
Loveland, CO
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$100K/yr - $145K/yr
8+ years expPatterson Companies, Inc. is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to manage large and critical projects throughout all stages of the project lifecycle. The role involves leading high-priority projects, ensuring they meet desired scope, quality, budget, and schedule, while mentoring team members and collaborating across departments.
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Responsibilities
Mentors other project managers and project coordinators to provide professional growth and ensure successful project delivery
Remains current with Project Management Best Practices and Methodologies to ensure company is effective and efficient with utilizing and deploying industry standard practices
Creates, modifies, and trains other Project Management team members on methodology processes and procedures
Create and update detailed project plans that outline specific tasks that need to be accomplished to ensure successfully deployed initiatives
Assign tasks and manage their progress to completion, documenting significant variations from originally estimated costs
Follow established project methodology when creating project plans and implementing solutions
Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel
Manage the successful release of software throughout the project lifecycle
Provide leadership and support by working with project sponsors and workgroups to analyze information, document critical processes, and identify improvement opportunities
Senior Project Manager works with various departments in the creation and approval of Statements of Work and other required documents
Identify areas of risk, escalate as appropriate, developing risk mitigation strategies and implement mitigation actions for the risks identified
Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report (lessons learned) in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
Partner with business customers, 3rd party vendors (participate in RFI/RFP process, vendor selection) and Patterson staff to develop discipline and corrective actions plans for issues that arise during projects
Effectively communicates the progress of project activities to appropriate personnel to insure their awareness of the activities, the degree of resource investment, and to assure that the project / activities continue to meet operation goals
Ability to work and communicate executive level project summaries either write or in stand-up presentations
Communicate clearly on the factual status of project progress, issues, timelines and implementation metrics
Identify areas of risk, escalate as appropriate, developing risk mitigation strategies and implement mitigation actions for the risks identified
Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report (lessons learned) in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
Budget for projects by leading and gathering cost estimates from internal and external vendors for software, hardware and labor required to implement each project
Recommends process improvements to processes that result in more efficient, cost saving procedures for future projects
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, or area of functional responsibility preferred, or a combination of equivalent education and experience
At least 8 years of Project Management experience
Experience using project management tools and methodologies, and a proven ability to develop successful collaborative working relationships with a variety of industries
Ability to effectively communicate with business leaders and collaborate with cross-department representatives
Ability to manage projects of any type (IT and non-IT) and projects with International components. Proven success managing large projects (12-18 months in duration) with multiple cross-department ties (IT and business)
Ability to successfully manage multiple projects, conflicting priorities and schedules simultaneously, meeting all deadlines
Strong customer service skills, sense of urgency responding to internal and external customers
Attention to detail producing high quality work products
Ability to take direction from several individuals and be self-directed
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong positive problem-solving and decision-making skills
Demonstrate best practices in professional relationships
Ability to exercise independent judgment and critical thinking
Travel domestically and internationally up to 0-10% if required for project success
Preferred
PMP Certification
Active in the PM Community; locally and nationally (PMI, local PM think tanks, etc)
Experience mentoring Project Managers
Company
Patterson Companies, Inc.
Patterson strengthens the oral and animal health markets in North America and the United Kingdom.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2024-12-11Acquired
1992-11-06IPO
Leadership Team
Mark S. Walchirk
President and CEO
Tony Pellerin
Vice President, Strategy / Corporate Development / M&A
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