Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kenco Group is one of the leading 3PL providers in the U.S., offering a dynamic and supportive work environment. The IT Project Manager II is responsible for leading teams to deliver projects across business units, managing resources, schedules, and financials while ensuring successful project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Typically responsible for 2 to 5 projects
- Projects size is roughly around 1350 to 4660 hours and the cost is between around $200,000 and $2,000.000
- Project complexity is high: startups, high visibility, M&A (mergers & acquisitions), finance, customer-facing, and projects that involve other business units
- Collaborate with executive-level managers and directors to provide relevant feedback and progress updates on assignments
- Define and create project plans for project, portfolio, and product prioritization and implementation
- Proactively manages and reports on all financial aspects of the projects
- Works with IT leadership and product teams to manage priorities across initiatives
- Provide capacity planning and reporting to IT leadership teams to ensure resources are effectively deployed across the portfolio of projects
- Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
- Performs work independently as well as a team leader and can be an individual and team contributor
- Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles
- Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered
- Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
- Assemble project plans and teamwork assignments
- Direct and monitor work efforts daily, identify resource needs, perform quality reviews, and escalate functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately
Skills
- 5 – 7 years of experience in strategic planning, implementation and systems integrations
- Experience working on project and portfolio management Tools (Visio, MS Project, Clarity, Workfront, etc.)
- Experience with multiple project management methodologies
- Familiarity with modern networking, software, and firmware technologies and architectures
- Experience in establishing a product strategy and roadmap
- Bachelor's Degree - preferred in Information Technology required or equivalent work experience
- PMI certification or equivalent preferred
- Experience within Logistics (preferably Third Party Logistics), Warehousing and/or Transportation
- Experience with enterprise financial management systems, human capital management systems, HighJump, Blue Yonder, and/or MercuryGate is a plus
Benefits
- Medical insurance including HSA, HRA and FSA accounts
- Supplemental insurance including critical illness, hospital indemnity, accidental injury
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Basic Life and Supplemental Life
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off approximately 2 weeks (accrual begins on Day 1 of employment)
- Employer Paid Holidays- 10 days
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