As an IT Project manager, you will be responsible for the planning and ongoing management of various IT projects impacting multiple departments, spanning 3 months to 2 years in length and having a significant impact to the business.

You will work in partnership with the Senior IT Directors, and Business stakeholders to develop plans within an IT project management framework. You will be responsible for guiding the team through the execution of those plans, controlling and monitoring execution and providing visibility to senior management into the progress and status of the project at all times.

Although working within the IT department, you will be expected to bring a broader business and people perspective to projects to insure that the solutions put in place address the business need across technology, people and process dimensions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the organization of project activities ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget constraints.
• Successfully manage a number of projects simultaneously.
• Act as the primary liaison between all team members assigned to a project, IT and business
• Coordinate all aspects of project delivery including defining project scope, specifying deliverables, estimating project duration, effort and cost, managing project budget, creating detailed project plans and managing change requests.
• Ensure project success by driving day-to-day operations through the application of sound project management principles and methodologies.
• Maintain regular communications with active team and business stakeholders to ensure necessary and appropriate steps are taken to resolve difficulties, which may impede progress or compromise achievement of project's objectives.
• Maintain a detailed status, activities and issues reports on each project to present to IT Managers and major project stakeholders.
• Ensure each project team has established meaningful, key metrics that properly reflect the performance of the team and indicates progress towards objectives.
• Makes recommendations on project prioritization.
• Provide feedback to IT managers from a post-completion analysis of all projects.
• Work with the PM Team to define and update standards and processes and contribute to continuous improvements within the team.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships and manage expectation of clients and stakeholders through effective communication (written, verbal and presentation)
• Ability to analyze information of varying quality from disparate sources, determine the priority and importance of issues, draw focus to the critical issues and make recommendations

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• 5+ years of corporate project management experience, ideally in an application development and/or ERP environment
• Proven technical knowledge of related environments, development lifecycles, and traditional implementation and technical project obstacles
• Conversant in various tools for statistical analysis, management, project planning, and time tracking including MS Project and MS Excel
• Detail oriented with excellent analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to deal with situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous
• Proven excellent organizational skills and teamwork skills
• Proven oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task and work to tight timelines
• Diploma or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering or equivalent work experience - Courses in project management, systems analysis, business modeling, data analysis/modeling, database management systems and programming
• Sound knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Leadership and expertise in team building

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to careers@ca.afilias.info.