What you will do:In this highly technical, fast-paced, and challenging position, the Sr IT Project Manager serves to manage and lead the development, modification, enhancement, deployment or decommissioning of a product, service, or system and is constrained by the relationships among scope, resources, and time. Overall responsibilities include planning and implementation of assigned multiple projects while ensuring consistency with IT/Enterprise strategy, commitments and goals.
Here's a day in the life:- Leads the planning and implementation of multiple IT projects
- Engage with stakeholders to define project scope, goals, requirements, and deliverables
- Establish and promote project management concepts, methodologies, and best practices
- Assemble and manage cross-functional project team. Direct and supervise vendors, consultants, and team members when leading projects
- Develop strong relationships and communications with direct stakeholders and other business leaders throughout project lifecycles to achieve company goals and objectives
- Develop project plans, establish, and meet target dates and schedules
- Negotiate difficult situations skillfully with both internal and external groups at various levels of the organization
- Periodically review key projects to confirm status, recommend corrective actions, and facilitate decision-making as needed
- Conduct lessons-learned reviews of key projects
- Ensure management and key stakeholders are well informed of project progress, status, and issues on a timely basis
- Identify key risks and issues as well as mitigation alternatives and plans
- Ensure project documentation is complete, accurate, and stored appropriately
- Learn quickly and work effectively in a collaborative team environment
- Conduct research, evaluate metrics, and proactively make recommendations to improve the company's project delivery and success rate
- Attendance at multi-day off-site training sessions, weekend and evening work, and response to after- hours emergency calls, may be required
- Deliver results in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment that requires the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with employees, supervisors, and the public
- Demonstrate strategic and intellectually curious thinking with focus on team outcomes
- Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
- Collaborate in a team environment while exercising independent judgment and initiative
- Communicate effectively. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Advanced user of Microsoft Office 365 applications including Outlook for email communications, Word for document and proposal development, Excel for financial reporting/modeling, Project for work breakdown structure development and PowerPoint for presentation development
- Ability to break down complex or technical ideas into non-technical language for end-users
- Act as a team player and be able to interact with staff at all levels of the company
- Work under pressure, meet deadlines, and be flexible in working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Demonstrate excellent time-management skills with the ability to work independently with little supervision
Knowledge, skills, and abilities:EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Project Management, Business Administration, Finance or related discipline or equivalent experience
- Scrum Master a plus
- PMP certification preferred
- Lean or Six Sigma certification preferred
EXPERIENCE
- 6+ years of project management experience, including successful delivery of complex enterprise technology, business intelligence, data analytics, or system implementation projects requiring business process analysis/re-engineering.
- Experience with ERP, Change Management, and preferably experience in a Manufacturing environment
- Demonstrated understanding of how enterprise applications, reporting platforms (Power BI), and data environments support business operations, analytics, and decision-making.
- Experience leading software development/implementation/process optimization/cloud infrastructure/migration/data analytics projects
- Proficient in Project Management software (MS Project, Jira, and/or Smartsheet), PM techniques and tools
- Demonstrated ability to tactfully influence executive, leaders, and project stakeholders
- Strong leadership and change management skills
- Excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills
- Ability to motivate teams and partners
- Excellent collaboration and negotiation skills
- Strong strategic, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to learn quickly, adapt to new and ambiguous environments
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities
Industry leading benefit and reward programs:We offer outstanding benefits to our employees. For more information, please visit the careers page: www.tillamook.com/careers.
We are committed to creating a culture of inclusion where all employees are heard, valued and feel a sense of belonging. We rely on different perspectives, thoughts, backgrounds and cultures to inform our work, to help us be better as a brand and as an employer and to fuel our success. We are seeking talent from a wide range of diversity, perspectives, and backgrounds to join our exceptional organization and help us build our future.
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