Job Description
An IT Project Manager (Contractor) on a 12-Month Contract is required by CareerWise Recruitment for our Galway based client. The IT Project Manager will support a large sized project in the EMEA Region. The ideal candidate will have successfully Led multi-disciplinary in-house and vendor teams across multiple technologies and in different time-zones. They will relish working in a fast-paced business change environment that requires constant attention to prioritisation and impeccable communication skills. Hands-on Management of Projects using different Development Methodologies and delivering Multi-Platform Enterprise Application Solutions is a must. PREFERRED:
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Smartsheet.
• Medical Device and/or Pharmaceutical experience.
• Experience of IT application support processes / ITIL a bonus
• Project Management Certifications are a plus.
Role of this position
• Lead prioritisation of competing requirements with business and IT stakeholders.
• Communicate with business partners as conduit to IT.
• Support articulation of business processes that inform technical solutions.
• Lead Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and technical resources in requirements definition.
• Understand technical, resource and schedule implications of business decisions.
• Work with technical leads to determine project timing and resourcing requirements.
• Set project scope, priorities, milestones and deliverable schedules.
• Lead cross-functional project teams via project methodology (Agile, Hybrid) optimized for required deliverables.
• Drive execution of project deliverables.
• Present to IT, business function, and executive steering committees.
• Monitor execution and report status, risks and issues.
• Manage all project change control activities.
• Develop and lead project teams to deliver initiatives on-time and on/under budget.
• Deliver solutions to requirements that provide efficiency and scalability to the client. REQUIREMENTS & EDUCATION:
• Experience project managing Oracle Fusion/EBS implementations
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.
• Experience with enterprise-level applications and working with multi-discipline teams.
• Strong ability to lead cross-functional teams in a matrix Organisation.
• Strong strategic thinking skills; understands business needs and brings proactive solutions to the team.
• Experience of understanding business and technical activities in order to conduct Level of Effort analyses by bottom-up planning
• 5+ years of experience in an IT technical or enterprise applications project management role.
• Travel Required: 0 to 25%