Project Manager (IT)

Vertiv•Westerville, OH

About The Position

Vertiv is hiring a Project Manager in Westerville, Ohio. This role involves traditional project management responsibilities for large scale projects with global, enterprise-wide impact. This individual will lead various Business Systems’ projects to successful completion as stand-alone projects or within ERP System programs. The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring that project objectives are achieved on time and on budget, while meeting quality goals and success criteria of the program based on business objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related degree
At least 10 years’ project management experience.
Strong Project Planning & Organizational Skills.

Nice To Haves

PMP or Agile Certification, preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Responsible for leading, planning, execution, and completion of large-scale complex projects. Monitors and controls project activities from proposal through project closure phases.
Accountable for Project Management planning and execution tasks, including, but not limited to, estimating, scope, scheduling, budgeting, costing, resource, risk, and issue management.
Continuously assesses project health, anticipating risk and developing effective mitigation plans that maintain committed project plan.
Develops and manages project recovery plans when necessary, minimizing impact to project commitments.
Collects and analyzes data required to create effective written status reports. Creates and delivers effective written and verbal project status reports.
Proactively engages stakeholders, providing timely, relevant, and transparent project status.
Identifies task dependencies as they arise and takes action to ensure that project schedule is unimpeded by dependencies.
Facilitate cross-functional planning and project execution,
Provide executive-level program updates to Program Management Team and executive project charter.
Monitor team schedules and ensure coordination of activities on the critical path.
Develop reporting and tracking programs to assure the project is on target for scope, schedule, and cost.
Identify key issues and drive decisions to ensure that the project does not slip.
Identify key risks and develop contingency plans.
Work with management of different operating functions to identify and obtain required resources to adequately staff project within Vertiv and with software companies / outside consulting firms.
Interacts with all levels of management, team members, and stakeholders. Builds cohesive teams by partnering and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure efficient success of projects. Collaboratively engages and leads diverse teams and team members.
Directs activities of project team members and balances workload of the team, ensuring that both individual and group objectives are met.
Contributes to development of processes when they are needed by coordinating collaboration of design and execution with applicable Stakeholders.
Prepares and performs stage gate reviews.