Senior IT Project Manager

Your Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, execution, and operational handoff of technology projects ensuring quality control throughout the project lifecycles.
• Partner with the project sponsor to define and present the project business case for formal release of funds, including detailed project charter.
• Develop effective relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, and project team members.
• Work with the project sponsor and stakeholders to complete project charter including outlining objectives, scope, deliverables, required resources, budget and timing. 
• Facilitate the creation of a work breakdown structure and effort estimates, including identification of dependencies, resources, and risks to establish the overall project schedule and budget.
• Work across technical and business teams to plan and execute the project work.
• Develop project team meeting cadence including organizing and leading project kick off, project status, and project steering committee meetings.
• Clearly communicate expectations and provide regular and ongoing project updates to the team, stakeholders, project sponsors, etc.
• Listen and act as a mediator between stakeholders and team members.
• Lead risks and issue management for the duration of the project, actively tracking them and escalating to the project Steering Committee level when necessary.
• Effectively manage project scope and ensure project change requests are socialized through formal processes.  
• Determine if external consultants or contractors will be required to complete the project. As required, work with project sponsors to recruit and manage external resources.
• Track, manage, and report on project budget and milestones and provide status reports to project stakeholders.
• Lead, coach, and motivate project team members and other project managers at Brooks.
• Responsible for project close activities including production handoff to business owners, production support turnover, lessons learned, and a post-project evaluation to determine how results were achieved.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience leading cross functional IT projects.
• PMI or Agile certification or equivalent hands-on experience is required.
• Familiarity with project management standards (PMBOK) and project management software.
• Experience completing project work in multiple business functions within a retail/supply chain organization.
• Ability to expertly manage multiple projects.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including the ability to manage project team members and project managers in a matrixed environment.
• Experience successfully working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Ability to rapidly adapt and respond to changes in environment and priorities.
• Excellent communication, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills that inspire and build trust resulting in effective working relationships across the company.
• Keen attention to detail in planning, organization, and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect one another.