IT Project Manager - Infrastructure & Hardware Delivery

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Position Purpose

The Project Manager is responsible for a combination of planning and execution of activities related to delivery of projects and/or financial/budgeting activity for their teams.

When executing on project delivery, Project Leads are responsible for the success of one or more projects within a given timeline and budget, creation and maintenance of status reports, proactively managing issues and risks, and can work with 3rd party partners.

When performing financial/budgeting activities, they monitor and adjust to given budgets, track labor, capital spend, and support variance root cause analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• 85% Delivery & Execution
• Partners with stakeholders to lead the project planning effort, including the formulation of the project scope, definition of the project deliverables and the required delivery dates, creation of a logical work breakdown structure, and definition of major project milestones.
• Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work.
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall or other project delivery methodologies.

Ability and understanding of project plans and development, risk identification & mitigation.

Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives.

• Establishes and executes effective communication with Project Stakeholders.

Assists in development, then executes change management process and activities within Technology organization.

• Creates, monitors, tracks, and adjusts project plans based on critical milestones for a project of group of initiatives.
• Works with stakeholders to determine and align dependencies, then proactively risk and issues via identification and mitigation plans.
• 15% Resource and Financial Management
• Participates in vendor selection and onboarding processes in accordance with Home Depot policy; can be involved with the purchase order and invoicing process for 3rd party vendors.
• Executes fiscal management and reporting for operational, product/business, technology, and vendor stakeholders; includes gross labor, capital spend, and non-labor forecasting for tracking, reporting, and variance analysis.
• Direct Manager/Direct Reports
• Position reports typically reports to Sr Project Manager or Program Manager.
• This position has no direct reports.
• Travel Requirements
• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Working Conditions
• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Minimum Qualifications
• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Preferred Qualifications
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience working as a project manager delivering large scale IT hardware within a retail environment.
• Professional Certifications (e. g., PMP).
• MS Project and office tools.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools and Project Management tools (MS Project, JIRA, etc.).
• Experience with the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategies.
• Experience managing technical projects.
• Minimum Education
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.
• Preferred Education
• No additional education.
• Minimum Years of Work Experience
• 5
• Preferred Years of Work Experience
• No additional years of experience.
• Minimum Leadership Experience
• None.
• Preferred Leadership Experience
• None.

Certifications

• None.
• Competencies
• Project focus: Understands, anticipates and meets business and project needs.
• Results orientation: consistently delivers on commitments, takes initiative, has a bias toward action, takes responsibility, shows individual accountability, has a sense of urgency, makes timely decisions.

Ability to manage through influence/leverage partnerships.

• Ability to communicate at various levels of the organization (within the team/portfolio as well as with senior leadership), to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical.
• Experience managing technical projects.

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:

The pay range for this position is between $65,000.00 - $180,000.00.

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