We are seeking an IT Program Manager to join our team. The IT Program Manager will be responsible for working with a multitude of H&K departments to manage and deliver their strategic initiatives in alignment with the Firm’s goals and objectives.
Requirements
- Facilitate the creation of project requirements, business cases, and executive summaries.
- Define and review project scope and successfully plan and track execution.
- Identify and secure resources required to execute the plan.
- Create and maintain project plans to accomplish stated goals.
- Identify, log, analyze, and manage project issues and risks.
- Proactively address deviations from project plans or schedules and keep all participants on track.
- Facilitate project meetings, including the creation of agendas, preparation of materials, and documentation of meeting minutes and results.
- Provide status reports on project progress for project stakeholders and IT Leadership.
- Vendor solicitation and selection management including Request for Proposal (RFP) package creation.
- Effectively use the tools required for managing projects.
- Work closely with all project stakeholder groups to coordinate project milestones.
- Understand and translate cross-team dependencies into actionable plans.
- Work with multiple stakeholders in the Business and IT to meet the desired objectives.
- Determine most appropriate PMO methodology for assigned projects.
- Mentors new or junior level Project Managers on all things project management.
- Lead efforts outside of normal project management duties to help streamline or automate current processes.
- Sets the standard for how the team manages projects.
- Exhibits on a continual basis the ability to effectively deliver on projects of various complexities.
- Has an excellent understanding of the various teams within IT and within assigned project area.
- Travel to local offices to facilitate meetings and verify project progress as necessary.
- Assumes responsibility for the project management for a designated group(s) or organization(s)
- Portfolio management responsibilities to include: assists in the collection and documentation of the yearly IT projects wish list, helps to track down high level requirements and costs for wish list projects, keeps up to date with all designated portfolio projects/initiatives (with or without a PM), updates information in ServiceNow to keep portfolio information as up to date as possible (i.e. start/end dates, assigned resources and percent complete), understand the Firm’s capabilities, assets, skills, and resource capacity, help balance conflicting portfolio priorities and take corrective actions to remove project roadblocks, prepare financial and what-if analysis to help senior management rank and prioritize projects, apply portfolio management best practices to establish benchmark data to use for continuous process improvements, work with portfolio owners to continuously review and optimize their portfolio to ensure on-going alignment with evolving organizational goals, market opportunities, and threats, is seen by peers and leadership as the owner of projects within assigned portfolio, serves as Project Manager on many concurrent project or programs of various size and complexity, special projects and duties as assigned
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required to organize, lead, facilitate, and manage status and other meetings as needed.
- Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project.
- Ability to interact with technical, managerial, and executive level staff.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical (PPO and HDHPs), dental and vision plans including coverage for domestic partners
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short and long term disability insurance
- Tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, including FSAs and HSAs
- FSAs for dependent care
- Health advocacy services
- Behavioral health and counseling resources for all family members
- 401(k)
- Profit sharing
- Pre-tax transit and parking program
- Backup dependent care
- Senior care planning support
- Resources for individuals with development disabilities and their caregivers
- Paid holidays and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents