IT Project Manager (M & A)

IT Project Manager (M & A) Location: MN Manages and coordinates major initiatives across technical and application infrastructure. Develops and maintains project documentation, charters, work plans, and deliverables utilizing Project Office Methodology and tools. Assesses, plans, and implements mitigation strategies for identified risks; proactively escalates issues and devises contingency plans to stakeholders. Coordinates and manages resources; including vendor activities and relationships. Identifies the project scope, goals, and critical success factors in consultation with business and sponsors. Analyzes project plans for dependencies; identifying critical path issues and other project dependencies. Coordinates and communicates project plans and activities across project participants and stakeholders as appropriate to ensure a coordinated work effort and team approach. Conducts project post mortems and creates lessons learned documentation. Plans, tracks and schedules project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Tracks and communicates project milestones and deliverables. Creates and maintains issue logs; coordinating and ensuring resolution of all outstanding project issues. Creates and maintains risk logs; creates and maintains mitigation plans for risks. Consults with Business sponsors, stakeholders and subject matter experts to guide business analysis and requirements documentation. Facilitates negotiations; ensuring issue resolution and effective cohesion across all project participants. COMPETENCIES/Skills/Experience:

Represents SME and Project team in a manner well respected by the project team, leadership and organization. Proven ability to organize, lead and influence the activity and performance of with the organization. Promotes effective team collaboration among team sponsors, stakeholders and end users to meet project goals and objectives. Communicates with end users and can represent the project directly with audiences at multiple levels. Guides end users, so they understand project impact and end user instructions. Ability to simplify communication of difficult concepts at a level appropriate to the audience. Demonstrates flexibility if the message is not being received as intended. Questions prioritization as project priority issues arise. Arranges priority discussions to resolve. Clearly communicates roles with stakeholders. Identifies and assigns risk.Seeks out uncertainty. Leads change definition. Analyzes stakeholder views and reacts to meet needs. Identifies and assigns tasks for Organizational Change Manager. Evaluates the impact to the organization and leads the effort to adapt the organization to the change. Provides internal solutions to issues. Seeks to deeply understand problems. Evaluates problems (critiques next steps, challenges to examine alternatives). Uses internal sources to vet the solution. Contributes to the project and its direction. Escalates to management to address possible solutions. Preps sponsor for any escalation needed to Executive Management. Interacts to solve key issues, presents solutions. Must Have's

Merger and Acquisition experience This is very Tactical not strategy PM work Must be able to communicate with Executive level Waterfall not Agile Infrastructure background

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