IT - Project Manager III

About the position

We're seeking an IT-Project Manager III (Insight) to coordinate, plan, support, and execute enterprise-wide IT projects. Provides strategic input for project plan development, budget, and scope. Manages the Project Management Life Cycle from beginning to end and establishes cohesion for achieving multi-disciplinary stakeholder and project team buy-in.

Responsibilities

• Applies industry-accepted methodologies (i.e., Project Management Institute [PMI]) to ensure adherence to project management standards and requirements and to provide stakeholders with continual reports on project progress and performance.
• Assists and supports Project Management Office (PMO) employees.
• Performs project management research to improve and refine skills and to identify trends and best practices for improving PMO performance.
• Meets with stakeholders to validate business cases and to gather facts for establishing and gaining agreement on project charters.
• Creates project charters and analyzes business cases to validate and clarify issues, justify use of project resources and to anticipate risks.
• Consults with project sponsors to clarify project directives, scopes, deliverables, and timelines and to analyze risk.
• Conducts bid sessions and/or vendor RFP efforts to select and manage suppliers and supplier payments.
• Applies PM tools and methodologies to ensure project milestones are achieved and scope is maintained.
• Observes project team dynamics to ensure effective team member synergies and to resolve issues.
• Creates progressive project milestones for facilitating smaller-scale achievements and to motivate the project team.
• Gathers and analyzes project metrics to evaluate project performance and to manage issues, risk and changes of scope.
• Communicates with stakeholders, senior management, and project leaders to review project progress, discuss issues and resolutions and to authorize scope changes.
• Utilizes PM tools to manage project timelines and accuracy, ensure project resource commitments are met, and to track activities and variances.
• Performs assessments throughout projects to identify risks and potential impact and to develop response strategies for managing and mitigating risk factors.
• Closes project contracts to validate supplier statements of work (SOWs) and verify deliverables.
• Conducts project management research and studies trends and developments under the direction of the PMO Director to support PMO team members and industry colleagues.
• Determines project goals and priorities in consultation with Governance committees, CIO, EHCIS Directors and Managers, LITS Directors, Vendors or other key stakeholders.
• Assists in selecting project team members, coaches team members to clarify assignments and deliverables.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with various teams: Public Safety, BIS, Infrastructure DBA, Tech Ops EDH EHH, Integration, PeopleSoft HR FTP, Specialty Desktop, and external vendors.
• Reviews quality of work and manages the integration of team members work.
• Provides performance input to the team members functional manager, creates a project charter with the project team.
• Manages and communicates a clear vision of the projects objectives and motivates the project team to achieve them.
• Creates a project environment to enable team success, coordinates the activities of the team(s) to meet project milestones.
• Organizes the project(s) work and determines an effective approach to completing it. Compiles a complete and accurate estimate of the project(s).
• Prepares a project plan and obtains the appropriate approvals.
• Analyzes risks, establishes contingency plans and identifies trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigation action with stakeholders.
• Proactively identifies changes in work scope and ensures appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external customers to reassess and amend the scope of work requirement, budget, and/or timeline.
• Tracks and reports on the progress of plan, cost, schedule, and scope changes.
• Analyzes actual performance against the project plan and makes adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Analyzes the original estimate against actual hours and duration; provides justification for variance.
• Manages relationships with project stakeholders, internal and external customers and vendors, keeping them informed of progress and issues to manage expectations on project requirements and deliverables.
• Involves functional expertise and subject matter experts in design reviews and key decisions.
• Manages change to preserve the commitments in the plan, establishes and publishes clear priorities among project activities, and amongst differing projects when multiple projects are being managed.
• Oversees and shares all project documentation, provides team training as needed on the documentation.
• Analyzes lessons learned and shares with PMO and other project managers.
• Determines what constitutes a successful project closure and acquires sign-off by all parties when attained.
• Extensive knowledge and competency in project management methodology and processes, including planning tasks, allocating resources, risk management, time management, financial management, HR management, quality management, monitoring, reporting, documentation and record keeping.
• Ability to effectively plan and facilitate meetings; strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
• Negotiation skills within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests. Presentation and written communication skills.
• Ability to advise on complex matters to non-specialists.
• Skilled in anticipating and identifying technical obstacles to make accurate technology decisions.
• Personal integrity and courage to escalate issues to management and to advocate for responsible solutions to project problems.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to work with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical expertise.
• Understanding of network infrastructure, cloud migration (MS Azure), and POS systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field preferred. PMP or ITIL certification preferred.
• 6-8 years experience in using formal project management methodology, techniques and tools required.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple concurrent large or complex projects.
• Combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Strong knowledge of clinical trial IT systems and technologies.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs
• Family-focused benefits
• Wellness incentives
• Ongoing mentorship, development, and leadership programs
• And more