IT Project Manager

SSA Marine•Seattle, WA

30d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Project Manager, your role will work with our IT&S team that supports the Carrix organization. You will drive successful delivery, manage all aspects of a given project, and deliver defined value through effective planning and facilitation while meeting time, budget, and scope requirements. You will apply advanced knowledge of project management concepts and practices to lead complex strategic and tactical initiatives that may span enterprise-wide and carry large impact for the broader organization, our customers and our clients. You will apply your strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to execute project plans, evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value, and minimize risk. In your job as a Project Manager, you may be called upon to provide indirect leadership to project teams and our stakeholders and serve as a lead integrator of initiatives to ensure success of the bigger picture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in or equivalent work experience.
4+ years of related work experience with at least 3 years of managing IT projects.
Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum preferred.
ITIL certification is required (or within 90 days of employment).
Strong experience with project management tools and methodologies, IT project delivery, and a deep understanding of technology concepts and various components of an IT organization.
Strong experience working cross-functionally, with multiple technologies.
Demonstrated ability to partner and collaborate across organizations to optimize outcomes.
Leading skills in written and verbal communications to all levels of an organization, including technical and non-technical staff.

Nice To Haves

Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum preferred.
Experience managing integration and data related projects preferred.

Responsibilities

Facilitate cross-initiative planning discussions and identify dependencies.
Addresses and ensures resource gaps are resolved and that initiatives are adequately supported.
Ensure project and/or sprint objectives align with stakeholder goals and strategy.
Develop executable plans, including timelines and deliverables.
Establishes appropriate governance.
Act as an advisor and build and maintain relationships across the wider stakeholder community.
Partner with sponsor(s) and key stakeholders to communicate project goals, objectives, and outcomes.
Maintain feedback loop with key stakeholders to ensure identified program adjustments are made to deliver increased business value.
Lead regular interactions with sponsor(s) to inform, alert, negotiate, and maintain a beneficial relationship.
Build long-term, strategic relationships with stakeholders.
Optimize day-to-day operational aspects of multiple initiatives or agile teams.
Contribute to building a framework or set of guidelines for the use of project managers and support its adoption across initiatives.
Remove potential roadblocks by negotiating conflicts and resolving issues.
Maintains oversight over the entire project lifecycle and work with appropriate stakeholders to oversee all phases of initiatives within the project.
Measure value delivered by initiatives, ensure value is realized, and identify opportunities to deliver increased value across initiatives.
Regularly solicit feedback from stakeholders regarding satisfaction with outcomes.
Analyze and prioritize risks across initiatives and assesses potential impact.
Identify areas requiring change, advocate for, support and influence enterprise change.
Ensures the inclusion and effectiveness of Organizational Change Management activities and may coordinate change efforts across initiatives.
Actively contributes to and may lead aspects of developing and implementing project management concepts, tools, and structure.
Deep knowledge of project management, and ITIL processes.
Deep knowledge of the principles and methods for planning and managing project initiatives.
Ability to make well-informed and objective decisions and ability to perceive the impact and implications of decisions by leveraging fundamental prioritization and problem-solving skills.
Proven ability to adapt behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles and to effectively deal with ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability.
Proven ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives.
Proven ability to be a focused and versatile team player who is comfortable under pressure, ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability.
Proven ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
Proven ability to make decisions independently and to assume and/or delegate leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
Proven ability to vary styles of interaction match the needs of a variety of business and technical audiences.
Leading project management, team building, problem solving, negotiation, prioritization and strategic thinking skills.
Leading written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
Experience managing integration and data related projects preferred.