Sr IT Project Manager (Palo Alto, CA)

• Proactively manage projects towards achievement of business objectives while adhering to agreed scope, time, quality and budget; may manage resources directly to execute project activities.
• Develop project charters, comprehensive plans, budgets, success criteria, metrics, status reporting, communications and other deliverables to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Anticipate critical activities and risks, identify issues and demonstrate initiative to appropriately escalate and resolve.  Plan mitigations for risks with significant impact.
• Effectively communicate progress, status, dependencies and risk to stakeholders so that necessary corrective actions can be taken to keep project on track.
• Demonstrate leadership, build partnerships and communicate in a way that is motivating, optimistic and pragmatic; foster effective team interaction, collaboration and accountability.
• Clearly communicate project roles and responsibilities to team members.  Establish effective, yet nimble, governance, steering committees, and RACI for deliverables and decisions.
• Create project task plans; monitor and update team member tasks and deliverables to ensure appropriate quality and timely completion. 
• Partner with others to develop and implement best practices for project management, solution evaluation and the system development life cycle; maintains templates, guidelines and process documentation. Coach and mentor others on project management best practices.
• Provide input on and drive the necessary steps (e.g. investment business case, project management, change management, post project evaluation) to go from inception to realization of business benefits.
• Manage multiple global projects that comprise of internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Manage vendors conducting work on assigned projects, ensuring their deliverables are provided in a timely and quality manner.
• Ensure compliance to departmental SDLC and PM methodologies; conduct lessons learned for projects and proactively apply learnings.

• Proven experience with 6 plus years managing a diversity of IT projects (including evaluation of solutions, requests for proposals, application implementations, reporting/analytics, infrastructure and information security)
• Strong working knowledge of IT applications, infrastructure and information security projects. 
• PMP certification or equivalent is desired
• Able to develop detailed IT project plans in a variety of technology areas with little assistance or input
• Strong working knowledge of formal project management, SDLC and agile methodologies, PM tools and techniques
• Proven experience with a variety of techniques for requirements elicitation, analysis and definition (e.g. functional specifications, business process engineering, data flow diagrams, use case analysis)
• Proven experience developing robust plans for managing quality, testing and move to production
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management software, including MS Project and Smartsheet.
• Good business acumen to understand the value of business capabilities enabled by IT
• Sufficient working knowledge of finance fundamentals to plan, forecast and monitor costs
• Sufficient technology acumen to understand interdependencies and major risks
• Experience successfully completing projects using global virtual teams of internal and external resources; proven experience effectively managing vendors
• Experience in an environment where various risk frameworks (e.g. Information Security, Privacy, CSV-21 CFR Part 11) are in scope and risks are appropriately mitigated.
• Ability to manage multiple programs or projects without direct authority in a consultative, collaborative and team-oriented style
• Good presentation, communication, facilitation and influence skills; understanding of organizational change management concepts
• Ability to develop strong and collaborative relationships with people at all levels within different functions
• Highly aware of how their actions impacts others, drive to self-develop and strong desire to excel
• Bachelor degree in business, computer science or related degree; MBA is a plus
• Demonstrates and models the client values.
• Direct and honest in communication and feedback
• Demonstrates consistency between words and actions
• Develops and sustains cooperative productive partnerships
• Demonstrates passion for the job, organization and company
• Demonstrates strong accountability for results, performance, standards and continuous improvement
• Open to new approaches and embraces change

• An opportunity to be a part of a great culture, an awesome team, a challenging work environment, and some fun along the way!
• Apply today to learn more and be part of our Growth story.

Department: Scout
This is a full time position