IS Project Management Director

Summary

Under the direction of the Chief Information Officer, the IS PM Director provides leadership to a team of in-house project managers and business analysts in the development of new or enhanced products and services that align with the firm’s business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Assists senior IS management in identifying, selecting and prioritizing project portfolio.
• Ability to oversee and manage a portfolio of up to fifty (50) medium to large-scale inter-disciplinary projects/programs.
• Maintains effective communication with senior management, providing them with reports on both portfolio and projects; analyzes reports for issues that may have an affect on portfolio/project success; offers action plans for addressing those issues.
• Oversees development and deployment of project management competencies, processes, standards, methodologies and tools.
• Continually evaluates both individual and overall enterprise project management maturity level; defines course of action for continually evolving that maturity level.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Requires a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with strong project/program management ability.
• Requires 10+ years of managing complex technology projects in a fast-paced, political, highly matrixed environment.
• Ability to implement a selective and practical approach of all PM knowledge areas appropriate for the organization and the individual project.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize information in a concise manner and to make recommendations on strategies to resolve issues.
• Must have an extremely high degree of both organizational skills and logic sequencing.
• Demonstrated mastery of planning and facilitating meetings.
• Demonstrated mastery of presentation and written communication skills.
• Must be extremely results oriented with little input from others
• Ability to de-escalate, mediate and negotiate with individuals within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests, both internal, and external, to the organization.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of project management expertise.
• Must be extremely team-oriented and willing to place the needs of the team before the needs of the individual.
• Six Sigma, Business Analysis and Business Process Management skills are preferred.
• Normal business hours, Monday through Friday. Flexibility to work overtime outside of regular business hours as necessary and at times, with short notice.