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 delivery 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.

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