Senior Project Manager
About Us:
Our mission is to elevate leading brands through unforgettable digital connections with their customers. Sitecore delivers a composable digital experience platform that empowers the world’s smartest and largest brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers. Ahighly decorated industry leader,Sitecore is the leading company bringing together content, commerce, and data into one connected platform that delivers millions of digital experiences every day. Thousands of blue-chip companies including American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, L’Oréal, and Volvo Cars rely on Sitecore to provide more engaging, personalized experiences for their customers. Learn more atSitecore.com. Sitecore’s foundation is our diverse group of passionate, smart, innovative, and collaborative individuals located across four continentsand inover 25 countries. Having a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and skills is what makes us the company we are today. TheSitecore valuesare what drive and unite us across the globe. About the Role:
We are seeking a Project Manager to lead complex and strategic global Workplace Experience & Infrastructure (WEXI) projects and initiatives. This role involves developing solutions that address both Enterprise Technology (ET) departmental and enterprise-wide business needs. The Project Manager will be tasked with crafting detailed project plans, overseeing global resources, ensuring effective project communication, and leading the successful execution of assigned projects.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide end-to-end project management for assigned projects
- Actively manage multiple projects that may be in different phases of development
- Provide leadership and direction in the analysis, selection, design, and implementation of solutions
- Work closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams, and other identified stakeholders to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, and timing for new initiatives
- Provide status reporting on project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues
- Mitigate risk utilizing contingency plans as necessary and manage through issue resolution
- Manage team members to meet individual project assignments and project milestones
- Conduct regular meetings with project and business stakeholders to review project status and drive decision making
- Develop detailed cutover plans for Go-Live to ensure successful implementation
- Carry out project closedown activities and transition to ongoing operational support
- Participating in ET Portfolio Governance & Project Management initiatives as requested
What You Need to Succeed:
- BS degree in Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or other IT-related area
- 5+ years of progressive experience as an IT Project Manager with a minimum of 2+ years focus on delivering workplace experience and infrastructure related projects.
- Understanding of infrastructure components including MS Azure stack, network concepts, identity and access management, firewalls, virtualization, data center, cloud infrastructure, domains, and security tool integration.
- A strong and proactive presence as well as stakeholder management is a must for this role
- Skilled at leading project teams in either an Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid workflow environment
- Experience in Project Mgmt. tools (i.e. MS DevOps, MS Project, Atlassian Jira)
- Excellent relationship-building and people skills, with an ability to develop strong and trustworthy relationships across multiple teams and end-users
- Strong organizational and multitasking skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to solve problems, even in ambiguous environments
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
- Ability to make decisions independently
- Strong command of the English language
Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart:
- ITIL-certified (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP):
- PMP Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Other IT related Certifications