IT Project Manager

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This position is based in the Firm's global operations center in Tampa, FL.

General Description

We are seeking an IT Project Manager to join our team. The IT Project Manager leads IT related projects including core infrastructure, process reengineering, and packaged software implementations. They will need the ability to form strong relationships and communicate with a wide variety of internal and external resources. They must also exhibit leadership skills and be able to indirectly manage resources. The IT Project Manager owns delivery of project scope, schedule, budget and delivery.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Direct involvement in multiple concurrent project efforts of various sizes.
• Manage day-to-day issues assess impacts to scope, schedule, quality and cost.
• Identify and secure resources required to execute the plan.
• Create and maintain project plans to accomplish stated goals or produce the products required working within constraints such as time, cost and quality.
• Facilitate the creation and documentation of project requirements, business cases, and executive summaries.
• Identify, log, analyze and manage project issues and risks.
• Proactively address deviations from project plans or schedules and keep all participants on track.
• Provide executive level project status summaries.
• Facilitate project meetings, including the creation of agendas, preparation of materials, and documentation of meeting minutes and results.
• Vendor solicitation and selection management including Request for Proposal (RFP) package creation.
• Effectively use the tools required for managing projects.
• Define and review project scope and successfully plan and track execution.
• Work closely with all project stakeholder groups to coordinate project milestones.
• Understand and translate cross-team dependencies into actionable plans.
• Provide weekly status reports on project progress for project stakeholders and IT Leadership.
• Work with multiple stakeholders in the Business and IT to meet the desired objectives.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience as an IT project manager.
• Experience to manage multiple priorities and tasks.
• Involvement working within technical teams through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Ability to interact with technical, managerial, and executive level staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required to organize, lead, facilitate, and manage status and other meetings as needed.
• Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project.
  
  

Minimum Education

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Formal project management training and certification a plus.
  
  

Benefits: Our goal is to promote a work environment in which individuals have access to the resources they need to be their best both professionally and personally, which includes resources that encourage individuals to focus on their health and well-being.

Below are the benefits we offer: comprehensive medical (PPO and HDHPs), dental and vision plans including coverage for domestic partners; life and AD&D insurance; short and long term disability insurance; tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, including FSAs and HSAs; FSAs for dependent care; health advocacy services; behavioral health and counseling resources for all family members; 401(k); profit sharing; backup dependent care; senior care planning support; resources for individuals with development disabilities and their caregivers; and paid holidays and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents.

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