Senior Technical Project Manager

Mmd Services - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

Specialty Trade Contractors

About the position

The Senior Technical Project Manager will play a crucial role in leading medium to large-scale IT projects within a renowned manufacturer of outdoor and indoor equipment. This position is focused on enhancing the company's internal IT landscape as part of a technical transformation initiative. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, particularly in Salesforce, SAP S/4 HANA, and Middleware, and will be responsible for managing project timelines, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage medium to large-scale IT projects involving multiple systems and teams
• Collaborate with senior IT and business leadership on a wide range of infrastructure and application related projects
• Work closely with highly technical internal teams and third-party vendors, collaborating with both technical and non-technical users
• Actively track progress and prepare/update project status reports for all active projects using project tracking tools (JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, etc.)
• Hold team members accountable to deliver project tasks on time; find creative ways to stay on schedule and make appropriate business-based trade-offs
• Assess project risks and issues and develop mitigation strategies
• Organize, lead, attend, and document relevant project meetings
• Collaborate closely with business and development teams (Salesforce Developers, SAP Analysts, CRM, QA, etc.)
• Develop technical documentation including customer journeys, user stories, data-flow diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, etc.
• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization’s technology platforms, influencing and establishing best practices through solid design decisions and tools

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive IT project/program management experience delivering projects on time, within budget, with minimal project interruptions
• Experience managing technical infrastructure related projects with close attention to system reliability and scalability
• Experience working with a variety of systems, platforms, and technologies (Salesforce, SAP S4/HANA, BambooHR, Mulesoft)
• Strong understanding/experience with Project Management Tools
• Agile Scrum project management experience preferred
• AWS Cloud project experience highly valued
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly
• Extremely organized, detail-oriented individual capable of self-managing and multitasking in a fast-paced environment
• Global project management experience within Enterprise environments
• Experience working with local and remote team members

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Middleware (Mulesoft or BODS exposure a plus)

Benefits

• Career advancement and growth
• Diverse and accepting work environment with great company culture
• Competitive benefits package and 401k matching
• Flex Spending account and wellness incentives
• Unlimited PTO and Flex Fridays
• Product discounts & freebies