IT Project Manager - LTE

Division Information

Spectrum Brands’ global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

Job Summary

The IT Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple large IT projects. The project manager works with Business Partners, Resource managers, Individual Contributors, IT Governance, and Senior Management to deliver projects on-time, within established budget, and within approved scope. This role collaborates with Business Partners and cross-functional teams to manage, communicate, and escalate as necessary issues and risks.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages and directs project teams
• Facilitates project execution and management through cross functional teams
• Develops, coordinates, and maintains integrated project timelines for all assigned projects
• Facilitates the delivery of scope, definition of deliverables, creation of work breakdown structure, project tasks, task sequencing, task effort estimates, resource requirements, and critical path
• Facilitates project oversite meetings to discuss issues, risks, project status, business engagement, testing, and implementation
• Works closely with program managers and functional leaders to ensure projects meet all metrics including quality, savings, budgets and schedules
• Works with resource managers and individual contributors to identify and assign the right resource at various stages of the project life cycle
• Ensures that all the technology projects follow approved procedures for Program Management, SDLC, Procurement, and Production Change Control
• Identifies and solves project issues effectively and manages risks
• Excellent vendor manager who can write SOWs, RFPs, and able to keep vendors accountable to timelines and deliverables
• Able to manage to a project budget and execute decisions that are fiscally responsible
• All other duties as assigned
  
  

Education and Experience Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Information Technology. Equivalent experience will be considered in lieu. MBA or advanced degree desired.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a combination of areas such as operations, program/project management, finance, information technology, ERP Systems, Application Development or IT Infrastructure. SAP experience desired. Proven project leadership experience required. Strong analytical skills required.
• Project Management Certification (PMI) a plus
• Working knowledge of IT project finances including capitalization
• Experience with SAP ERP software, Service Now, MS Project, and SharePoint preferred
  
  

Required Skills

• Ability to work with all levels of internal and external stakeholders and to negotiate timelines that maximize resource utilization, adhere to IT delivery commitments, and meet business timelines and objectives
• Able to work with business and IT teams to manage scope and follow procedures for amending scope when necessary
• Able to see into the future, anticipate roadblocks, plan for the unexpected, forecast project spending and timelines based on solid project plans and negotiate resource commitments when projects vary from schedule
• Able to follow-through on actions, maintains a high do/say ratio, completes work and closes projects
• Able to manage and build rapport with a diverse workforce of local, remote, and international team members
• Able to analyze information, organize facts, separate fact from fiction, present, influence, persuade, and lead
• Able to leverage past experiences and institutional knowledge without “reinventing the wheel”
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office computer systems and applications, with intermediate to advanced skill levels in ERP/MRP Systems, spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, Microsoft Project, and project management
• Must demonstrate the highest degree of confidentiality and integrity
• Able to bring order to chaos
  
  

Work Environment

• Working conditions are normal for an office environment
  
  

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer