IT Project Manager - PMP in Newtownabbey

The IT Project Manager Professional will lead the successful delivery of a wide range of IT projects, working closely with a team of highly skilled professionals. The role holds full accountability for the performance, delivery, and outcomes of all assigned projects. This position frequently involves managing multiple projects concurrently within a broader programme environment. The role requires proven experience in leading implementations of Oracle EBS, Oracle SaaS solutions, Salesforce, or other Software as a Service platform, alongside a strong understanding of Lead to Cash and Integrated Business Planning processes.

General Responsibilities

• Meet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project.
• Define project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develop comprehensive project plans and manage all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training, and status reports.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
• Ensure resource availability and allocation.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyse the successful completion of short- and long-term goals.
• Make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis.
• Regularly communicate and present project schedules and statuses.
• Report and escalate to management as needed.
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.

Experience / Qualifications

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Business ethics - Ability to practice and behave consistently and effectively in areas of business practice and conflicts of interest.
• Communication - Ability to communicate effectively by getting the right message across to the right people at the right time on a regular basis.
• Customer Orientation - Ability to meet customers expectations by identifying and anticipating customers needs and integrating these into work; ability to develop new added value for customers and act with the customer in mind.
• Result orientation - Ability to take steps personally to ensure that mutual goals and performance targets are met within the appropriate timeframe.
• Teamwork - Ability to work with others and work synergistically with fellow team-members.
• Planning and Organising - Ability to plan, prioritize and organize work and schedules in all areas to meet requirements.
• Problem solving - Ability to reach logical conclusions to situations by appropriately analysing the situation.
• Time Management - Ability to assess your ability to manage your time, and the effectiveness of your team to reach department objectives.
• Conflict management - Ability to recognize and work towards a mutually agreeable solution when confronted with conflict.
• Decision making - Ability to think through possibilities and make sound decisions with appropriate degree of risk; knows when he/she has enough data to make an informed decision.
• Resilience - Ability to work under pressure and prioritize.
• Strategic thinking - Ability to turn strategy into action, to see the big picture and use this ability productively.
• Managing objectives - Ability to decide what needs to be accomplished and design a plan to achieve the desired results.
• Team Management - Ability to delegate, motivate, mentor, develop and manage team to achieve objectives.
• Manage external resource against SLA and operational metrics.
• Budget Management - Ability to project and present annual operation Expense and Capital budget in departmental budget process.

Job Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Plan, direct and coordinate all IT projects related to Commercial Excellence aspects within schedule and budget.
• Manage the entire project life-cycle stages include; Intake, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling, Hypercare & Operations hand off, and Administrative close.
• Ensure proper documentation and approvals are in place within each stage of our PMLC (Project Management Lifecycle).
• Maintain project plans to ensure all stakeholders are informed of program status, performance, risks and issues.
• Interact with all stakeholders to maintain a high-level of effective communications and resolve problems and issues as they arise.
• Support the Source Selection process, BOM cost analysis and impact during the intake phase of a given project.
• Coordinate resource allocation and define RASCI roles for all assigned projects.
• Assign work and ensure tasks are completed on-time to meet milestone deadlines.
• Track and measure performance at each phase of the PMLC process.
• Schedule steering committee meetings with Senior leadership, prepare status reports.
• Effectively communicate risks and mitigation plan to support.
• Support process development and/or improvement.

Essential Criteria:

• Degree in Business Administration, IT or related work.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience managing projects across many functional areas in similar industry.
• Program Management Professional (PMP) or similar preferred.
• Demonstrated Commercial Excellence or Lead to Cash experience.
• Automotive or Aero Defence industry experience preferred.

Core Competencies - Planning, risk management, budgeting, stakeholder management, governance.

Additional Details:

• Experience working with MS Project and Oracle ERP is a plus.
• Travel disposition.