IT Project Manager

Project Manager

Position Summary

The Project Manager leads the planning, execution, and delivery of projects that support business goals and organizational priorities. This role is responsible for managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring that project outcomes are delivered with quality and aligned to agreed objectives.

Key Responsibilities

The Project Manager oversees projects from initiation through closure. This includes defining project scope, building project plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking progress, and maintaining clear governance throughout the project lifecycle.

The role works closely with sponsors, business stakeholders, team members, vendors, and leadership to align priorities, remove obstacles, and support timely decision-making. The Project Manager ensures that deliverables, dependencies, risks, and success criteria remain visible and actively managed.

This position is responsible for maintaining project documentation and reporting, facilitating meetings, managing changes, and driving accountability across the team. The role also supports issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement throughout delivery.

Primary Duties

• Lead projects from kickoff through completion, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and budget expectations.
• Develop and maintain core project artifacts such as the project charter, schedule, status reports, risk and issue logs, action trackers, and meeting documentation.
• Manage cross-functional teams composed of internal staff, consultants, vendors, and third-party implementation partners. The role coordinates accountability across technical, functional, and business workstreams.
• Monitor project performance against scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk targets, and escalate concerns when needed.
• Manage stakeholder communications, including project updates, governance meetings, and executive reporting.
• Facilitate planning sessions, status meetings, decision reviews, and lessons learned discussions.
• Support change control by assessing impacts, documenting requests, and coordinating approvals.
• Identify risks and issues early, drive mitigation planning, and track actions through resolution.
• Ensure successful handoff, transition, and closure activities at the end of the project.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, project management, finance, or a related field.
• 5-7+ years of experience in IT Project Management with experience managing ERP, manufacturing projects and new product development projects. 
• Experience working with senior leaders to support strategic planning, funding decisions, and cross-functional prioritization.
• Familiarity with project, program, and product delivery methods across waterfall, agile, and hybrid environments.
• Strong leadership, organizational, communication, and problem solving skills. 
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, and decision-support skills.
• Certification in PMP, PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent
• Experience with enterprise PPM tools.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust, inspire collaboration, and navigate cultural and geographic diversity
• Experience navigating a global organization
• This role is in the office 5 days per week with the potential for domestic/international travel upwards of 25% annually

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities. 

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