Senior IT Project Manager

Garmin International - Olathe, KS

Full-time - Mid Level

Olathe, KS

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior IT Project Manager will oversee large-scale IT projects, ensuring adherence to project management standards and processes. This role involves developing complex project plans, managing resources, reporting on project metrics, and serving as a scrum master. The position requires strong leadership skills to drive accountability among team members and to mentor less experienced project managers.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains complex project plans involving multiple participants and stakeholders.
• Drives accountability from project team members and serves as a subject matter expert in project management process improvements.
• Provides project status and summary to wide audiences including senior management.
• Identifies interdependencies in programs and serves as the go-to person for project management.
• Leads project management process improvement efforts.
• Participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs.
• Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems, including evaluation of new technologies to improve existing functions.
• Serves as a mentor to less experienced Project Managers (Project Manager 1 & 2).
• Understands business impacts of issues and how they relate to IT owned solutions.
• Develops and maintains all project documentation, dependencies, risks, and mitigations throughout the project life cycle.
• Motivates and drives accountability from all project team members, coordinating resources assigned to projects without direct authority and resolving conflicts with little assistance.
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determining feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0).
• Demonstrates mastery of project management principles and adapts practices to meet rapidly changing business climates and needs.
• Demonstrated experience with a proven track record in successful implementation of technology solutions.
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must be positive, detail-oriented, organized, team-oriented, and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Demonstrated excellent time management and follow-up skills and the ability to prioritize the work and the team.

Nice-to-haves

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5).
• Experience with automated testing tools, procedures, and an understanding of web-based concepts and processes.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure and Security concepts and processes.
• Familiarity with and demonstrated understanding of IT Service Management.
• Experience with and understanding of ERP/EDI concepts and processes.
• Experience with Oracle Application Modules (e.g. Financials, Purchasing, ASCP, BOM, INV, OM, HRMS, CRM, etc.).
• Familiarity with database systems and large scale application lifecycle management.
• Experience with release processes and SDLC.
• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI), Information Technology Information Library (ITIL), or other regulatory issues.
• Experience successfully coordinating large scale globally based projects to move, add, and/or change aforementioned underlying technologies.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities