Role: IT Project Manager

Location: Hybrid, mandatory 3 days a week onsite in East Metro, MN

Rate: The hourly pay rate range for this position is $64.60–$74.25, dependent on qualifications and experience.

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.

Purpose:

Lead an internal IT team and technology delivery vendors, in partnership with business partners, to implement IT infrastructure capabilities.

Use formal project management methods to initiate, execute, and control pre-defined projects, employing full stage gate methodology. Manage medium to large efforts/projects/tasks and serve as a subject expert in an individual contributor role. Change management experience required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Accountable for project results along with project sponsor.
• Manage relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Determine project scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, budget, and timing.
• Document project activities, sequences of milestones, dependencies, and task durations.
• Coordinate with cross-functional IT and business teams to resolve interdependent issues.
• Ensure issues are escalated to appropriate teams and authorities.
• Manage trade-offs between scope, cost, schedule, and customer benefit while maintaining quality and minimizing risk.
• Guide the project team to deliver a quality solution through standard testing and support models.
• Proactively manage project budget.
• Track and report status, issues, risks, and financials to management.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Program & Project Management Basics: Implement proper program and project management practices/tools. Understand, break down, and report status of deliverables.
• Navigate Ambiguity: Evaluate situations, drive the team forward through complex work, and escalate appropriately.
• Relationship Building: Create and maintain trust with business partners, build quick relationships within IT, partner with internal and vendor project managers, and present to director/VP level sponsors and stakeholders.
• Strong analytic, problem-solving, and team skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or business management.
• Skilled with project management tools – JIRA, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Office 365 products.
• Five to ten years of related experience with demonstrated success delivering projects on-time, within budget, and in-scope.