Senior IT Project Manager

Dale Workforce Solutions; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dale Workforce Solutions in Columbia, SC is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to oversee a range of digital and non-host applications on the Commercial Project Management Service team. Using hybrid-agile techniques, you will work with a team of 12 to drive projects across the business.

The role emphasizes coordinating, reporting, and delivering projects on time and within budget, mentoring staff, and ensuring quality, with strong communication and leadership skills required.

Qualifications

• 5 years IT leadership experience, including managing multiple teams.
• Experience leading two or more concurrent project teams.
• Proficient with MS Office, MS Project or Azure DevOps.
• Strong written and verbal communication with customer focus.
• Advanced leadership and organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Solid understanding of project management principles and success metrics.
• Ability to manage resources and multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and negotiate scope.
• Experience presenting formal updates to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Owns coordination, status reporting, and stability of project efforts.
• Manages multiple work streams of varying size and impact.
• Adheres to PM processes to deliver on time, budget, quality.
• Monitors project plans and assignments daily.
• Ensures resources are assigned and escalates issues.
• Tracks milestones and adjusts plans to meet needs.
• Leads projects from inception to business acceptance.
• Mentors other project leads and supports staff development.

Skills

IT leadership

MS Project/Azure DevOps

communication skills

leadership

project management

stakeholder management

risk management

resource planning

presentation skills

negotiation

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Associate degree + 2 years experience

Tools

MS Project

Azure DevOps

Job description

Contract: 1 year contract-to-hire

Job Summary:

The Senior IT Project Manager sits on the Commercial Project Management Service team and handles a range of projects across the business areas of the company. Utilizing hybrid-agile techniques, this PM works on a team of 12, focusing on the digital experience and non-host applications of the company.

Responsibilities

• Owns overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work efforts.
• Responsible for multiple work efforts of any size, from minimum complexity system/customer impacts to greater complexity system/customer impacts.
• Adheres to project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budgeted hours, adheres to high quality standards, and meets expectations
• Monitors project plans, assignments and work efforts on a daily basis.
• Ensures resource needs are assigned appropriately and escalates functional, quality, timeline issues
• Tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans to meet the needs of work effort.
• Responsible for leading the project from inception to final business acceptance and implementation.
• Mentors other project leads and participates in the training and development of staff.

Requirements

• 5 years IT experience in a leadership capacity, including 2 years of experience leading two or more concurrent project teams
• Software: Microsoft Office, MS Project or Azure Dev Ops
• Excellent communications (verbal and written) skills with assertive yet customer-focused style.
• Advanced leadership skills in a team or project environment.
• Excellent problem solving and conflict management/resolution skills.
• Advanced analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and methodologies, information systems, business processes, and the key drivers and measures of success for the business unit and the organization.
• Advanced competency in management of resources to meet goals and multiple projects.
• Strong ability to lead multiple multidiscipline, high-performance work teams throughout project life cycle.
• Strong ability to negotiate terms and scope of work documents.
• Advanced ability to prepare and present formal presentations.
• Ability to manage all phases of work effort from inception to completion.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of job-related work experience or Associate’s Degree plus 2 years of job-related experience