IT Project Manager 2

Description

The Senior Project Manager, IT PMO, will take a leadership role in supporting programs and projects across the organization. This individual will ensure strategic projects are delivered within schedule, scope, budget, and quality goals. Governance of processes, obtaining buy-in, and leveraging resources to complete activities are critical components for success.  The Project Manager will effectively manage capacity and availability of labor resources. The Project Manager should have been successful in using Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.  The candidate should have a solid understanding of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge and enjoy managing teams, resolving issues, and communicating project status to leadership. The ultimate focus of the position is to deliver valuable solutions that are fully adopted by our business partners.

Strong project management and excellent organizational skills are essential, as are the ability to liaise with people at all levels of the organization. The candidate will support project management disciplines in a fast-paced environment and be part of the PMO transformation into a world-class organization.

Responsibilities

• Leadership and Collaboration: Work effectively across the organization to ensure strategic projects are delivered successfully.
• Project Governance: Adheres to Skyworks’s Project Lifecycle Management methodology for all projects, that includes required processes, documentation, and approvals. 
• Solution Delivery: Delivering valuable solutions quickly that focus on our business objectives, and ensure adoption and benefits are realized.  Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards that exceed stakeholder expectations. 
• Methodologies: Utilize Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies effectively. Facilitate Agile Scrum ceremonies that include daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demos, and retrospectives. Developing Sprint roadmaps.
• Project Planning: Develop project plans, including scope, quality assurance, organization change and resource management. Develop project schedules, identify critical path, estimate at completion.
• Financial Management: Manage program and project financials to meet approved budget reporting forecast and actuals monthly.
• Stakeholder Management & Communications: Communicate and report project status to stakeholders and leadership on a weekly basis. Balance competing demands of scope, time, cost, quality and resources with differing needs and expectations to meet or exceed customer expectations. 
• Risk Management: Identify and manage project risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
• Resource Management: Manage capacity and availability of labor resources to optimize project delivery. 
• Knowledge and Expertise: Have a solid understanding of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Knowledge of Six Sigma and other process improvement frameworks. 
• Reporting: Ensure project plans are maintained, and deliverables tracked against cost, schedule and resource Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Delivers professional, clear and accurate project status information to project teams and executive review      boards.
• Change Control: Control project change requests to ensure delivery of original scope and objectives on time and within budget. 

Required Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) and Scrum Master certifications preferred
• Proficiency using MS Project or Enterprise MS Project Online is required.
• Proficiency using Planview PPM Pro project portfolio management is a plus.
• Must have 8+ years overall Project Management job experience leading programs and projects.  
• Must have 8+ years of demonstrated project management experience working in an IT PMO.
• 5+ years of application and infrastructure implementation experience (project management experience with large scale application implementation projects.)
• Experience in managing international projects and resources in various time zones, languages and currencies.
• Experience in managing project resources indirectly and remotely.
• Experienced in managing project life-cycle stages, including schedule, budget, risk/issue management, and status reporting to various levels of the organization.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Excellent presentation and public speaking skills.
• Ability to use a wide degree of creativity and latitude to think differently, challenge conventional wisdom, and drive new best practices.
• Proficiency in using the Microsoft Office suite of applications, including Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Power BI.
• Experience in the semiconductor or manufacturing industry preferred.