IT Project Manager II

SGS Consulting; Clifton (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead IT initiatives in the United States, driving end-to-end delivery and governance per PMO standards. You will coordinate scope, resources, budgets, and stakeholders to achieve Enterprise-level outcomes.

The role emphasizes requirements analysis, planning, and effective vendor coordination, with a focus on delivering quality deliverables and a strong user experience. A Bachelor’s degree is required.

Qualifications

• Must have four years of previous experience working on information technology project teams and in obtaining customer requirements and other analysis activities

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage projects end to end following PMO methodology.
• Create and manage project scope, resources, and budgets.
• Coordinate multiple medium-to-large enterprise projects with stakeholders.
• Develop Charter, Project Plan, Budget Tracker, RACI, and status reports.
• Identify dependencies and risks, and implement mitigation plans.
• Facilitate planning and design sessions to define in-scope/out-of-scope.
• Provide training documentation and user support materials.
• Ensure go-live readiness with super-users and succession planning.

Skills

IT project experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Meets expectations of the applicable Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Follow PMO methodology, processes to lead and manage projects end to end.
• Responsible for creating and managing project scope, resource, and budget.
• Responsible for managing multiple, medium-to-large projects.
• Responsible for analyzing, understanding business requirements, vendor statement of works and other form of requirement documents to clearly outline project artifacts.
• Expected to manage multiple projects by maintaining a high level of quality in terms of deliverables, implementation, and customer experience.
• Responsible for managing complex, enterprise-level projects with minimal oversight. Enterprise level projects include several ministries/locations. Project Manager is responsible for bringing in right leadership, resources, vendors, and all stakeholders together to organize and facilitate project kick-off.
• Responsible for creating Charter, Project Plan, Budget Tracker, RACI, Weekly Status Reports, Project Steering Committee, and presentation materials, GLRA and Change Management processes.
• Responsible for establishing critical path milestones and reporting the status to the executive leadership on a regular basis.
• Must develop concrete project plan before moving project to implementation. Lead and track the project progress by the project plan. It is not acceptable to manage projects without project plan.
• Responsible for identifying dependencies, risks ahead of time, work with respective stakeholders to create mitigation plan and actively monitor and report the progress. Adhere to PPMO department policies, procedures, and documentation requirements. All projects and documentation are subject to internal/external audits, must need to maintain meticulous documentation.
• Responsible for facilitating planning & design sessions to iron out clear in-scope, out of scope and designs of the projects.
• Training: Works with IS Training and Vendors on the following:
• Planning for and ensuring preparation and maintenance of documentation pertaining to programming, systems operation, and user documentation.
• Translating business specifications into user documentation.
• Planning, writing, and overseeing user support documentation efforts, including online help screens.
• Insuring training of users in the operation and functionality of computer applications and the related business processes.
• Validating competency of users in utilization of information systems prior to systems go-live or major changes.
• Ensuring super-users or other support personnel are in place at go-live, and succession planning is documented to ensure ongoing competency support in facilities and departments affected by new systems being implemented or upgraded.

Skills

• Must have four years of previous experience working on information technology project teams and in obtaining customer requirements and other analysis activities

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or relevant experience in an Information Systems environment required.