IT Senior Project Manager (Infrastructure)

Location:

Wilmington, Massachusetts

Job ID

2402456

This is a hybrid role with 50% on-site requirement in Wilmington, MA.

This role manages strategic initiatives for the IT organization, ensuring critical projects are delivered on time, on budget and that the original business value of the project is achieved.

Responsibilities:

• Works with key stakeholders to define project outcomes, develop the project plan/schedule, and secure resource commitments for successful delivery of the project. Leads project initiation process to obtain budgetary approval and facilitates project governance stage gate approval processes.

• Creates overall project schedule in accordance with the defined systems development lifecycle (SDLC) phase milestones, ensuring estimates are articulated and accurate, work is broken down into discrete and measurable tasks, dependencies are understood, and resource commitments are obtained.

• Owns the project resource roster and develops/manages the project budget including capex/opex allocation, third party invoicing against actuals, and reconciliation of internal labor hours. Reports on the project budget (budget vs. actuals, variances, estimate to complete forecasts).

• Develops and reports on objective metrics for monitoring project performance relative to timeliness, budgets, quality and effectiveness. Provides regular project status reporting to all key stakeholders.

• Monitors and controls all changes to project schedule, scope, or budget. Facilitates regular governance process (Steering Committee) to ensure proper authorization of changes to projects.

• Owns critical project communications, ensuring issues are driven to action, all parties are informed on the status of the project and that expectations are managed.

• Proactively identifies issues and drives risk remediation plans where required.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, or a technical discipline.

• PMP certification or demonstrated progress towards obtained PMP certification preferred.

• Agile certification a plus (SAFe, CSM, CSPO, etc).

• 7-10 years of experience working in a technical delivery organization (IT, application development) in a project management capacity.

• 3-5 years working within a PMO organization.

• 2-3 years of Vendor management.

• 3-5 years of Identity & Access Management rollouts.

• 3-5 years of Infrastructure and Application Integration (Hardware and Network) rollouts.

• Proven experience managing infrastructure projects like Server upgrades, End of Life and End of Support.

• Experience managing OKTA to MS Azure rollouts.

• Solid understanding of SDLC models (agile and waterfall) and the knowledge and practices of how to blend for the right business fit. Proven track record of delivering projects using a hybrid methodology (blended agile/waterfall methodology).

• Experience managing programs that use both third-party implementation providers and internal resources. Knowledge of SOW management and incentive-based contract structures required.

• High sense of urgency and analytical, evidence-based approach to problem solving and status reporting.

• Excellent presentation skills. Able to translate/present complex data/concepts in a simplified way to drive action. Capable of working with all levels of management across the organization including executive management.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills including visualization of data (summarizing data using charts and graphs). Able to use data to drive lead strategic decision conversations.

• Hands-on experience with tools including Jira, Project, and Visio (Smartsheets a plus).

Benefits & Perks:

401K with Company Match, Profit Sharing, Health Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement, 30% Employee Discount, Employee Referral Bonuses.

UniFirst is an international leader in garment & Uniform services industry. We currently employ over 14,000 team partners who serve 300,000 business customer locations throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

We were included in the top 10 of Selling Power magazine’s “Best Companies to Sell For” list and recognized on Forbes magazine’s “Platinum 400 – Best Big Companies” list. As an 80-year old company focused on annual growth, there’s never been a better time to join our team.

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