IT RISK MANAGEMENT Project Manager

CODAI Consults LLC; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CODAI Consults LLC in Minneapolis seeks a senior IT risk program manager to partner with leadership and risk teams to define the program roadmap and measure outcomes.

You will monitor Core Technology risks, develop dashboards, drive risk response plans, and communicate findings to executives. This role requires strong analytical and governance skills in a fast-paced enterprise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of functional experience in IT managing risk and complex projects.
• Ability to identify, assess, qualify, articulate, and mitigate risk.
• Experience partnering with leaders and teams across multiple business units at executive levels.
• Strong communication and influencing skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making with process-improvement experience.
• Ability to translate data into meaningful risk visualizations, observations, and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Program Director, Core Technology leaders, and risk stakeholders to define and track program roadmap and success metrics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to monitor Core Technology risks and implement dashboards for visibility and decision making.
• Manage risks through lifecycle: intake/triage, owners, assess risk, and develop risk strategy and action plans.
• Drive execution of risk responses and project plans; monitor budget, team, and schedule.
• Engage with Enterprise Risk Management and other teams to ensure alignment and risk awareness.
• Provide requirements and participate in UAT to support deployment and effectiveness of risk tools/systems.
• Liaise with Business Continuity leaders to ensure IT readiness plans meet BC/DR expectations.

Skills

IT risk management

stakeholder management

risk assessment

project management

data visualization

effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Power BI

Excel

Job description

• Partner with Program Director, Core Technology leaders, and risk stakeholders to develop program roadmap and annual/quarterly objectives; define and track key success metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness and value of the program in achieving risk-reducing objectives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify and monitor all Core Technology risks in master risk register; implement reports and dashboards to provide visibility to areas of risk and progress on response plans, and to inform LRP, strategic, and financial decisions.
• Manage risks through entire lifecycle: intake and triage submitted risks; identify risk owners; partner with accountable leaders to assess risk (likelihood, impact, onset, mitigating controls) and to develop risk strategy and action plans.
• Initiate, plan, and drive execution of risk response and project plans; monitor, track, and report on progress; effectively manage budget, team, and schedule.
• Engage regularly with other risk-managing teams (Enterprise Risk Management, Enterprise Technology Governance & Risk Management, Information Security, Internal Audit, Legal & Compliance) to ensure alignment; promote adoption of risk management processes by collaborating, providing transparency, and building risk awareness.
• Provide functional requirements and participate in UAT to support successful deployment and effectiveness of risk management tools/systems; recommend process improvements and tool enhancements.
• Liaise with Business Continuity leaders to ensure IT readiness plans meet overall BC/DR expectations for the enterprise.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of functional experience in IT managing risk and complex projects.
• Proficiency in identifying, assessing, qualifying, articulating, and mitigating risk.
• Demonstrated track record of acting as business partner to leaders and team members across multiple business units with ability to build relationships, trust, and rapport; experience working at executive levels to lead change using positive and collaborative methods.
• Strong communication skills and experience engaging and presenting to senior leadership; ability to influence others using personal rather than positional power and ability to remain calm in fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with track record of leading, managing and improving processes.
• Understanding of data and how to utilize metrics; ability to gather information from multiple sources and synthesize it into meaningful visualizations, observations, and recommendations to inform decisions and achieve desired outcomes.
• Strong technical acumen with general knowledge across a wide variety of technologies, infrastructure towers, and processes

Preferred Qualifications:

• ISACA IT Risk Fundamentals or CRISC certification a plus
• PMP, Agile and/or SAFe certifications a plus