Information Technology Project Manager

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. This is a fully on-site position.

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.

THE ROLE:

• 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%