Senior IT Project Manager

Morton Salt is an iconic company with a strong heritage and a bright future. Since 1848, we have been improving lives and enhancing everyday moments – at home, at work and virtually everywhere in between. We help unlock the flavors in food, make roads and sidewalks safer, improve the water in baths, pools, and homes, and keep businesses and industries running. We are a dedicated team who constantly strives to do better together, and we are passionate about building a sustainable future for our company, the communities in which we operate, and the world around us. By joining our team, you will contribute to producing and delivering every form of salt that enhances everyday life.

Job Summary

Morton Salt is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead complex, enterprise-wide IT initiatives, driving execution across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. 

 Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead complex IT initiatives by managing multiple large‑scale or multi‑phase projects simultaneously, ensuring delivery of defined outcomes related to scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk. 
• Develop and manage detailed project plans that clearly define objectives, success metrics, strategy, staffing, schedules, dependencies, risks, contingency plans, and resource allocation to support predictable execution. 
• Oversee high‑risk and high‑visibility projects with significant business impact by proactively identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, mitigating, and communicating risks and issues. 
• Apply strong technical knowledge to assess project feasibility, guide technical discussions, challenge assumptions, and resolve complex issues related to infrastructure, data, cloud platforms, security, and integrations. 
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams including infrastructure, data, application, security, finance, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and timely delivery of all project deliverables. 
• Communicate project status clearly and consistently by providing executive‑level updates on progress, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies to senior leaders and other stakeholders. 
• Manage vendor relationships by establishing strong partnerships, jointly developing project plans, and ensuring timely delivery of IT equipment, software, and professional services. 
• Ensure compliance with IT PMO governance by managing projects in accordance with established policies, standards, methodologies, and documentation requirements. 
• Monitor and control project execution through regular schedule reviews, milestone tracking, budget oversight, change control, and performance metrics. 
• Lead project retrospectives and lessons learned sessions to capture insights, drive continuous improvement, and strengthen project delivery practices across the organization. 
• Support organizational change management by identifying impacts to people, process, and technology and helping ensure successful adoption of delivered solutions. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Seven (7) or more years of project management experience within Information Technology environments. 
• Five (5) or more years of experience managing data related projects or programs (e.g., data platforms, data migrations, BI, integrations, master data, and analytics).  
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.  
• Hands-on experience with project management tools and reporting platforms. 
• Experience leading successful business system consolidation projects through data analysis, harmonization, normalization, validation, and migration is preferred. 
• Project management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent experience) are preferred.  
   

At Morton Salt, we work best when we work as a team, when we treat one another with dignity and respect, and value the unique contributions of others. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, national origin, sex, religion, color, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.