Sr. IT Project Manager

CF Industries Employee Services; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CF Industries seeks a Sr. IT Project Manager for Manufacturing to lead large cross-domain IT initiatives with Agile delivery.

You will ensure collaboration, communication, and visibility of projects across the organization, interfacing with IT Director and VP levels. A 10+ year background in information technology project management, preferably in chemical manufacturing, and PMI-PMP preferred, are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of IT project management experience preferred.
• Experience supporting chemical manufacturing IT projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead large multi-domain IT projects from end to end with stakeholder alignment.
• Support and organize product strategy across a domain.
• Communicate business needs through in-depth domain knowledge.
• Ensure project execution and manage interdependencies.
• Coach and guide other project managers and teams to solve problems.

Skills

Project management

Agile methods

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Job description

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you'll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You'll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world's transition to clean energy.

Function:

Information Technology

Job Summary:

The Sr. IT Project Manager supporting Manufacturing is a motivating leader who drives strategic initiatives ensuring collaboration, communication, and visibility of projects. The Sr. IT PM is a self-starting individual with an aptitude for creative and critical thinking. The Sr. IT PM uses business expertise and enjoys collaborating with partners at all levels of the organization to implement positive change.

The Sr. IT PM thrives in a dynamic and agile work environment with iterative planning and delivery cycles, ensuring quality control throughout the project life. The Sr. IT PM helps envision solutions and adapts style to the business style of stakeholders and areas of the business. The Sr. IT PM nurtures positive, professional relationships, acting as a trusted partner and a respectful challenger.

Communication Skills

The foundation of the Sr. IT PM's success includes their attention to detail, listening to the requirements, and taking the business needs of initiatives all the way through to the finish line. They are great at keeping everyone in the loop and are skilled with today's communication technologies.

The Sr. IT PM is able to engage with others to ensure all are on the same page and is a resource that can help clear roadblocks for project objectives.

Job Description:

Responsibilities :

• Leads large multi-domain/discipline projects from end to end while ensuring stakeholder alignment along the way
• Helps support and organize product strategy across single domain/discipline
• Helps articulate business needs through in-depth domain knowledge
• Responsible for project execution
• Understands and communicates context of interdependencies within domain/discipline
• Significant contributor to Best Practices Team of all the IT Project Managers in the organization
• Comfortable developing and presenting at Director and VP leadership levels
• Holds team members accountable, ensuring project team leadership has a clear understanding of goals and timelines
• Guides other project managers and teams in domain/discipline to analyze and solve problems (people, structures, processes and technology); identifies the things that work together to improve operational health
• Challenges, engages and inspires others to commit to the work
• Encourages project leadership to celebrate successes and recognize team members
• Understands talent capabilities and gaps within projects
• Delivers constructive feedback, training, and coaching to improve the performance of others and inspires the team to excel
• Guides project change management efforts by understanding stakeholder needs and delivering effective communications and training to support change adoption.

Internal Controls

Establishes and implements processes and procedures to meet departmental internal controls requirements

Ensures that established processes/procedures are followed as designed

Develops and implements corrective actions with regard to department internal controls as necessary.

Supervisory Relationships :

Position Reports To: IT Director, Manufacturing

Subordinate Positions: None

Incumbent Attributes:

Education: Bachelor's degree (Information Technology/Computer Science) or its equivalent in a related field is typically preferred.

Years of experience: 10+ years of related professional work experience may be preferred to complete all essential job functions.

Other unique job-relevant attributes:

• Experience supporting chemical manufacturing IT projects with knowledge of Engineering and Process Data System processes and technologies.
• Experience managing projects with budget of $1M-$5M
• Agile/lean experience in organizations leveraging lean/agile methodologies and in-depth experience with agile methodologies
• PMI-PMP preferred
• Project management experience in information technology with a focus on managing medium/large projects
• Ability to work in diverse, fast paced environment and effectively colla