What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Information Technology Project Manager position at Ascendum Solutions?
Responsibilities:
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technology and business transformation initiatives within the Microsoft 365 and Power Platform ecosystem, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and client objectives.
- Serve as the primary point of accountability for project scope, schedule, budget, quality, resource allocation, risk management, and overall delivery success across multiple concurrent projects.
- Partner with executive stakeholders, business leaders, and client teams to define project strategy, establish priorities, and develop roadmaps that support long-term business objectives.
- Facilitate requirements gathering, solution design discussions, and project governance activities to ensure business needs are effectively translated into scalable technology solutions.
- Manage relationships with clients, vendors, and internal cross-functional teams, providing executive-level communication, project status reporting, and escalation management.
- Lead project teams through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, resource forecasts, budgets, risk registers, dependency tracking, and mitigation strategies to drive successful project outcomes.
- Establish and monitor project KPIs, delivery metrics, and performance dashboards, providing actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across project delivery processes, governance frameworks, and PMO standards to increase efficiency, predictability, and quality.
- Mentor project managers, business analysts, and project coordinators while promoting best practices in project management, stakeholder engagement, and organizational change management.
- Collaborate with sales, account management, and leadership teams on project estimations, statement of work development, resource planning, and client growth opportunities.
- Lead project financial management activities, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue tracking, client invoicing oversight, and profitability analysis.
Qualifications
- 8-10 years of progressive project management experience leading complex enterprise technology projects. Experience should include leading the delivery of enterprise Power Platform initiatives: Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven), Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, PowerBI…etc.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets and cross-functional project teams.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform, and modern collaboration technologies.
- Experience delivering consulting or professional services engagements in client-facing environments.
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or related project management certification preferred.
- Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic decision-making.
- Bachelor's degree highly preferred
Other:
- Looking for candidates located within 200 miles of 45242 who are able to travel in for major meetings/events (2-3 times/annually)