IT Project Manager

Schedule: M-F 8-6/9-6 PT (with flex depending on business needs)

This role is 100% remote, but please still source only candidates local to Irvine and Palo Alto CA for any future conversions.

This role may convert to FTE so long as there's a business need and the worker performs well.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Product/Project Manager - Enterprise Technology (ET), Employee Productivity Apps

Job Description

We are seeking an IT Product/Project Manager knowledgeable in employee experience, communication, and collaboration applications.

You'll greatly impact the organization while we build and shape the solutions across varied departments at *** to better the overall employee experience throughout their onboarding and tenure at ***. As part of the Digital Workplace & Solutions, Enterprise Productivity Apps team, you will define, design, and implement the solutions related to employee onboarding & offboarding, custom collaboration experiences, and general solutions to empower better cross-collaboration between teams. You will work with other highly qualified architects, admins, and engineers. You'll also act as a point of contact for vendor relations for a broad portfolio of software applications.

You have hands-on experience streamlining and defining custom solutions, maintenance, and ongoing operational excellence of production systems. You will also work cross-functionally, write solid documentation, and thrive in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct vendor conversations to help build and maintain crucial relationships with product suppliers

• Responsible for full life- cycle of projects from initiation to completion on all IT Capabilities related to the buildout if new work or retail spaces.

• Apply IT project management methodology and appropriate project management framework for all projects.

• Develop requests for proposal (RFPs) to engage third party installers.

• Successfully initiate, plan, execute and close all project deliverables as committed.

• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution, and delivery of projects including:

• Defining the project scope, roles, tasks, milestones, budgets and measures of success

• Developing project estimates and plans to manage the end-to end project execution

• Ensuring business requirements are captured accurately and completely

• Creating and maintaining project documentation

• Facilitating day-to-day coordination while adhering to standards and sponsor expectations.

• Acting as the link between the assigned project resources and key stakeholders.

• Ensuring project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation.

• Use disciplined project management methodology to define scope, develop project plan, and execute projects that adhere to guidelines and deliver within cost and schedule.

• Good cross functional IT and business communication, influence, and negotiation are required.

• Responsible for tracking project status and managing project issues and risks including:

• Monitoring projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress/quality, managing issue resolution

• Managing the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps

• Monitoring financial delivery and issue management processes, and escalating issues

• Promoting and monitoring compliance activities with audit and information policies

• Develop robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and commissioning of all projects with no impact to business continuity

• Review action items from the design/construction meetings and follow through with the closure of the action items.

• Follow through projects with each stakeholder and report out to the leadership team.

• Responsible for building and leading effective project teams including:

• Using problem-solving/critical thinking skills, and independent thinking to overcome challenges.

• Communication to project team members, key stakeholders and sponsors

• Adapting to cultural and organizational climates across global team.

• Manage individual work styles and development of project staff

• Serve as primary contact to Sr department managers for critical change initiatives within a highly matrix environment.

• Work with cross-functional team, contractors, and vendors to deliver critical projects.

• Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units (i.e., sales, engineering, brand/creative, finance, security, compliance) to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams.

• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.

• Author and update internal and external documentation and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation.

• Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems.

• Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations.

Schedule: M-F 8-6/9-6 PT (with flex depending on business needs)

This role is 100% remote, but please still source only candidates local to Irvine and Palo Alto CA for any future conversions.

This role may convert to FTE so long as there's a business need and the worker performs well.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Product/Project Manager - Enterprise Technology (ET), Employee Productivity Apps

Job Description

We are seeking an IT Product/Project Manager knowledgeable in employee experience, communication, and collaboration applications.

You'll greatly impact the organization while we build and shape the solutions across varied departments at *** to better the overall employee experience throughout their onboarding and tenure at ***. As part of the Digital Workplace & Solutions, Enterprise Productivity Apps team, you will define, design, and implement the solutions related to employee onboarding & offboarding, custom collaboration experiences, and general solutions to empower better cross-collaboration between teams. You will work with other highly qualified architects, admins, and engineers. You'll also act as a point of contact for vendor relations for a broad portfolio of software applications.

You have hands-on experience streamlining and defining custom solutions, maintenance, and ongoing operational excellence of production systems. You will also work cross-functionally, write solid documentation, and thrive in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct vendor conversations to help build and maintain crucial relationships with product suppliers

• Responsible for full life- cycle of projects from initiation to completion on all IT Capabilities related to the buildout if new work or retail spaces.

• Apply IT project management methodology and appropriate project management framework for all projects.

• Develop requests for proposal (RFPs) to engage third party installers.

• Successfully initiate, plan, execute and close all project deliverables as committed.

• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution, and delivery of projects including:

• Defining the project scope, roles, tasks, milestones, budgets and measures of success

• Developing project estimates and plans to manage the end-to end project execution

• Ensuring business requirements are captured accurately and completely

• Creating and maintaining project documentation

• Facilitating day-to-day coordination while adhering to standards and sponsor expectations.

• Acting as the link between the assigned project resources and key stakeholders.

• Ensuring project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation.

• Use disciplined project management methodology to define scope, develop project plan, and execute projects that adhere to guidelines and deliver within cost and schedule.

• Good cross functional IT and business communication, influence, and negotiation are required.

• Responsible for tracking project status and managing project issues and risks including:

• Monitoring projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress/quality, managing issue resolution

• Managing the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps

• Monitoring financial delivery and issue management processes, and escalating issues

• Promoting and monitoring compliance activities with audit and information policies

• Develop robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and commissioning of all projects with no impact to business continuity

• Review action items from the design/construction meetings and follow through with the closure of the action items.

• Follow through projects with each stakeholder and report out to the leadership team.

• Responsible for building and leading effective project teams including:

• Using problem-solving/critical thinking skills, and independent thinking to overcome challenges.

• Communication to project team members, key stakeholders and sponsors

• Adapting to cultural and organizational climates across global team.

• Manage individual work styles and development of project staff

• Serve as primary contact to Sr department managers for critical change initiatives within a highly matrix environment.

• Work with cross-functional team, contractors, and vendors to deliver critical projects.

• Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units (i.e., sales, engineering, brand/creative, finance, security, compliance) to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams.

• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.

• Author and update internal and external documentation and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation.

• Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems.

• Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations.

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