IT Project Manager
About The Position
Vertiv is seeking a highly motivated and experienced IT Project Manager to lead complex projects with global, enterprise-wide impact within its IT Digital Transformation organization. The role delivers technology initiatives focused on transforming IT and business through process efficiencies, data, and AI, ensuring objectives are achieved on time and within budget. The manager leads cross-functional teams and uses strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills to drive accountability. The position is based onsite at Vertiv’s Westerville, Ohio headquarters. The successful candidate is expected to embrace Vertiv’s core principles and behaviors while helping execute its strategic priorities.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years of progressive IT project and/or program management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, complex IT projects, such as digital transformation, software development, system implementation, ERP, cloud, or enterprise applications.
- Strong proficiency in Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid project management methodologies.
- Experience with project management tools such as ServiceNow SPM, Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal stakeholder-management and executive-communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Experience managing multimillion-dollar project budgets.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Self-motivated and able to initiate action and follow through with well-defined solutions and action plans.
Nice To Haves
- PMP certification or Agile certifications such as CSM, SAFe, or PMI-ACP.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) or similar enterprise PPM platforms.
- Experience in global or matrixed organizations.
- Background in ERP, cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, or digital transformation programs.
- Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to adjust presentations for the audience, including presenting to groups of varying sizes and organizational levels.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and effectiveness in leading people and facilitating rapid change consistently and in a structured manner.
- Ability to demonstrate process development and management practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional, global IT projects from initiation through delivery.
- Manage project planning and execution, including scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and issues.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, status reports, RAID logs, and executive dashboards.
- Facilitate project governance, steering committee reviews, and stakeholder communications.
- Partner with business and IT leaders to align project objectives with organizational strategy.
- Drive collaboration across infrastructure, applications, security, and business teams.
- Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve project risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Provide stakeholders with timely, relevant, and transparent project status updates.
- Produce executive-level program updates as needed.
- Ensure adherence to IT governance frameworks, change management processes, and compliance requirements.
- Contribute to PMO best practices and continuous improvement.
- Support portfolio-level reporting and resource capacity planning.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
