IT Project Manager

Our client, a leading vehicle manufacturer, is looking for an IT Project Manager (Enterprise Technology/Employee Productivity Apps) to join their team remotely in Irvine, CA or Palo Alto, CA!

As part of the Digital Workplace & Solutions, Enterprise Productivity Apps team, you will define, design, and implement the solutions related to employee onboarding & offboarding, custom collaboration experiences, and general solutions to empower better cross-collaboration between teams.

Contract Duration: 12-month contract, this role may convert to FTE so long as there's a business need (must be local to Irvine, CA or Palo Alto, CA for future conversions)

What You Will Be Doing

• Conduct vendor conversations to help build and maintain crucial relationships with product suppliers
• Responsible for full life-cycle of projects from initiation to completion on all IT Capabilities related to the buildout if new work or retail spaces.
• Apply IT project management methodology and appropriate project management framework for all projects.
• Develop requests for proposal (RFPs) to engage third party installers.
• Defining the project scope, roles, tasks, milestones, budgets and measures of success
• Developing project estimates and plans to manage the end-to end project execution
• Ensuring business requirements are captured accurately and completely
• Facilitating day-to-day coordination while adhering to standards and sponsor expectations.
• Acting as the link between the assigned project resources and key stakeholders.
• Ensuring project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation.
• Use disciplined project management methodology to define scope, develop project plan, and execute projects that adhere to guidelines and deliver within cost and schedule.
• Responsible for tracking project status and managing project issues and risks including:
• Monitoring projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress/quality, managing issue resolution
• Managing the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps
• Monitoring financial delivery and issue management processes, and escalating issues
• Promoting and monitoring compliance activities with audit and information policies
• Develop robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and commissioning of all projects with no impact to business continuity
• Review action items from the design/construction meetings and follow through with the closure of the action items.
• Manage individual work styles and development of project staff
• Serve as primary contact to Sr department managers for critical change initiatives within a highly matrix environment.
• Work with cross-functional team, contractors, and vendors to deliver critical projects.
• Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units (i.e., sales, engineering, brand/creative, finance, security, compliance) to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams.
• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.
• Author and update internal and external documentation and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation.
• Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems.
• Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree (Master's Degree Preferred)
• 6+ years of relevant experience
• You have hands-on experience streamlining and defining custom solutions, maintenance, and ongoing operational excellence of production systems.
• Experience with RFPs, project deliverables, stakeholder management, etc.
• You will also work cross-functionally, write solid documentation, and thrive in an agile environment.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

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