• Please note that our customer is currently not considering applicants from the following locations: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.***
  
  

Our Customer is a corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 1995, their goal was to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with the top medical professionals, they continue to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.

Our Customer is seeking a highly skilled contract IT Project Manager to join their dynamic team. This role is hybrid (3 days onsite and 2 days remote/week) in Sunnyvale, CA.

Manager of IT Infra & Security Project management will be responsible for managing corporate IT Infrastructure and Security projects. This role would manage a variety of projects in size and scope. Project manager will take large company-wide, highly visible programs from vision to release. We are looking for an experienced individual who can adopt to the Project planning and delivery process for Infrastructure and security teams, as well as contribute to strategy, roadmap discussions, project execution and delivery of engagements.

Your skills will include cross-team collaboration, conflict resolution, risk mitigation, and schedule management. You will ensure delivery of work committed and share insights & impacts based on the work delivered. The IT Project Manager will have the experience and skills necessary to continuously improve the way they develop and deliver initiatives with a solid analytical mindset and interest in taking part in the PMO organization and enhancing processes to improve data integrity and accuracy.

The role needs to perform in fast-paced environment, be a self-starter and work without any guidance. Ideal candidate will have excellent command over communication, Project Management Tools (both cloud and on-prem), expert in using Office 365 applications, Fluent in working conferencing tools such as Zoom, Cisco WebEx, Zoom Chat, Slack etc.,

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate regular Project team meetings, team coordination, action item tracking, record minutes and communicate
• Manage and prioritize multiple tasks while meeting project management deliverables
• Plan, coordinate and manage a large Project of IT Initiatives while anticipating, minimizing and mitigating risks.
• Build out integrated dashboards based on data sets from different sources like Smartsheet, Microsoft project.
• Able to produce crisp, integrated Reporting and Dashboards for executive staff.
• Manage & influence large cross-functional team(s).
• Provide meaningful optics and insights using tools like Anaplan, Smartsheet.
• Help with the deployment of IT Project Management Tools ecosystem, while driving PM maturity & discipline.
• Able to work within a complex tools ecosystem while managing across teams.
• Define and communicate target change schedule, Freeze calendar for production deployments.
• Provide inputs for Demand Management for Infrastructure and Security Project.
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

• 8-10 years of IT Project Management/PMO experience in a waterfall and Iterative project execution environment.
• PMP Certification required
• Experience driving Project Planning sessions; Have used various frameworks to prioritize work based on ROI/Business Value.
• Clearly articulate the Business Value (in terms of ROI) for the work/projects committed to the leadership team.
• Help and lead technical teams in finalizing critical business artifacts like Business Case, Success Metrics and Higher-level project/program schedule
• Proactively work cross functional stakeholders to identify dependencies of technical, people and external elements that can affect the project execution.
• Possess solid communication skills, and will be comfortable working in a dynamic fast-paced technical environment with experience using best practices to ensure the successful planning and delivery of projects in IT.
• Proven experience in managing Project and releases in a large-scale environment.
• Solid analytical mindset. Ability to define and build dashboards for executive consumption, while bringing in data from different systems.
• Self-starter with strong decision-making abilities who can drive projects to completion.
• Proven track record of achieving results through collaboration and teamwork.
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, clearly expressing ideas and concepts both verbally and in writing to effectively handle sensitive issues.
• Strong prioritization skills and the ability to handle multiple job duties in a fast-paced environment.
• PMP and Agile certification preferred.
  
  

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability