D&IT Project Manager

Air Liquide • Houston, TX

116d

About The Position

The D&IT Project Manager is responsible for evaluating, prioritizing, planning, executing, and tracking IT-related projects, as well as supporting the PMO roadmap in order to continuously improve the PMO processes and services. The position requires an individual with a strong project management background and deep understanding of managing complex projects across various functional disciplines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, Business, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years experience in two of the three areas: Business/Operations, Finance, IT, or Project Management.
• 5+ years managing teams of internal employees and contractors.
• PMP and CSM certification preferred.
• Knowledge and understanding of business processes in the scope of the industrial gases, chemicals, and wholesale distribution industries.
• Demonstrated understanding of all aspects of a full life cycle project implementation and support.
• Experience with complex implementations that include packaged software and custom development is required.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience leading and managing cross-functional project team members and deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and provide effective problem solving.
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate between teams and business-solution oriented.
• Excellent facilitation and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire project lifecycle from project initiation through closure.
• Be accountable for on-time and on-budget project execution in IT.
• Serve as the first point of contact/liaise between project stakeholders and project team to ensure project success.
• Create, execute, monitor and revise project plan to meet changing project requirements and resources.
• Plan, prepare for and facilitate all project status meetings.
• Manage resolution of project issues including proper escalation to project stakeholders.
• Identify project resource requirements and timelines and negotiate with IT service owners on resource availability and allocation.
• Lead team members to complete assigned tasks within specified timelines.
• Facilitate project procurement (products and services required by third parties) and consult IT resources as needed.
• Manage project time and cost expectations with project stakeholders.
• Lead efforts to deliver IT applications and services to the business community by leveraging internal resources and third party relationships.
• Collaborate with Ops Controller and participate in project budget preparation.
• Manage project budgets.
• Develop and execute procedures, processes and guidelines that enhance the overall effectiveness of project management execution.
• Develop and implement new IT processes, procedures, and workflows that enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the Digital & IT department.
• Provide reports and dashboards with an overall performance overview of project management services.
• Effectively collaborate with other teams to document project scope, resources, timing, goals and deliverables for the purposes of obtaining IT gating and financial approval.
• Monitor and report on progress of projects or the project portfolio to all key stakeholders, including key risks and issues identification and resolution.
• Facilitate issue identification and resolution.
• Document project change requests and assess change impact.
• Conduct project Lessons Learned meetings and use results to continuously improve project and IT processes.
• Promote project management process and the institutionalization of project management standards and best practices through mentoring and lead-by-example.
• Work effectively across cross-functional teams to reach a common goal.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees