Beacon Hill · 9 hours ago
Senior IT Project Manager
Fair Lawn, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$115K/yr - $130K/yrBeacon Hill is a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, and they are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager. The role involves supporting the coordination and delivery of IT programs, building a PMO function, and managing various IT projects to ensure they are completed on time and within budget.
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Responsibilities
Supporting the successful coordination and delivery of the IT Programme
Be instrumental in building a tailored PMO function in the US IT team, ingesting existing & new projects into the framework and providing ongoing management support
To deliver assigned change Programs and standalone IT Projects on time, within budget and quality
Weekly meeting cadence with PMO team and stakeholders to review project artifacts & progress
Support, motivate, guide, coach and develop the IT PMs in Project Management including definition of scope, objectives, planning, stage gates, quality criteria & communication plans, ensuring involvement of all relevant stakeholders
Develop detailed project plans to set deadlines, assign responsibilities/resources and monitor progress of own projects with standard PM artifacts such as risk registers, RACIs, test plans, and training documentation
Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
Show leadership in managing key stakeholders and maintaining communications plans
Drafting and reviewing Project Mandates to ensure initiatives align to the Business and IT strategies
Scope and business case management & collation through the PMO
Perform discovery efforts to compare solutions and vendors that meet the business needs, IT standards and budgeting requirements
Ensure structured Quality control/procedures and processes are in place and adhered to
Risk & Change Management. Ensure that Project risks, issues and constraints are 'rolled-up' to the wider IT Programme, driving risk-mitigation, issue-resolution and constraint-management at a Programme level; managing, supporting and updating as needed
Prepare and deliver updates for assigned programs in a timely manner
Prepare Project Status Reports, collate & review PSRs from the PM team and issue weekly to stakeholders and IT
Working with other internal functions such as BAs, IT Operations, IT Apps & Data teams, Master Data Team, Database team & Data Architects to determine their roles in projects, and track their contributions
Build strong working and strategic relationships with a variety of suppliers, augmenting internal teams where needed to deliver the Programme, and ensuring suppliers adhere to high quality on-scope, on-time, on-budget delivery
Deputize for the Director of Projects and Innovation as needed including assisting in the creation, presentation and ongoing upkeep of IT strategies, business-steering, senior level communications and other administrative duties
Qualification
Required
Retail industry experience is required
A proven background in delivering IT change initiatives in a complex organization, retail preferred
Experience in varied project methodologies with the ability to know when to work 'agile' and when to work 'waterfall' while applying the correct level of governance to stay delivery-focused
Understanding the running of a PMO is advantageous and a desire to make this a career path
Experience in managing multiple projects concurrently in a mixed-delivery environment of both internal and external delivery teams and shared multi-project resources
Ability to work, and lead, under pressure - and meet tight deadlines while remaining results driven
Strong communication and influencing skills
People-management and leadership skills; coaching, mentoring and developing Project Managers
Supplier management experience including negotiation, tender and contract management
Clear and concise presentation skills, including experience in program updates to senior teams
Strong financial and budget management, managing project budgets, and tightly controlling capital expenditure
Business or systems analysis experience with exposure to Point of Sale and/or data integrations
Ability to take ambiguous requirements and refine them to clear objectives and deliverables
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations
Company
Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill was founded to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing.
Founded in 2000
1001-5000 employees
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