We love what we do! At Aspen Surgical we live our values of Respect ,Transparency, Speed, Empowerment, and Fun every day. Our dedication to these values helps us build exceptional products that drive the industry standard to create a real and lasting impact on people’s lives all around the world. We strive to be the best, providing innovative tools, resources, and support needed to set our team members up for success. Do you want to be appreciated for your hard work? Be a member of a dynamic, fast-growing organization? View your job as a joy rather than a burden? Then we have a position for you!
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
Information Technology (IT) project managers manage and lead IT projects as well as enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives. The IT project manager is typically assigned projects ranging from small IT focused implementations to large-scale, high impact projects with moderate to high risk and complexity.IT project managers direct the daily activities of team members on multiple projects to ensure they provide high quality, cost effective services as well as providing budget oversight and tracking for each project.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: – Other duties may be assigned
- Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis
- Liaise with department resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule
- Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule
- Create and maintain project RAID log
- Create and maintain project documentation
- Create and maintain project financial models and forecast, monitor and report on project financials
- Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; review with IT leadership and communicate with key stakeholders
- Liaise with IT and company leadership as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience, and cost
- Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards
- Utilize technical background to provide insight / recommendations to business users
- Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports
- Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums
- Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case
- Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria
- Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in required – BS in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical discipline preferred or a combination of education and experience in IT.
- PMP certification required / preferred
- Six-Sigma or related experience a plus
- Minimum 2-3 years of professional experience is required
- Proven record of planning and delivering projects
- Experience managing remote project teams desired
- Experience and proficiency in project management tools – Smartsheet / Microsoft Project preferred
- Demonstrated experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/ development/ implementation projects and IT methodologies (ITIL)
- Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions; demonstrated experience managing customer relationships
- Experience working with Implementation partner vendors.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to understand and report on financial data
- Proven ability to build team cohesion and motivate people
- Self-motivated and organized with a strong desire to succeed
- Ability to confidently challenge others at a level of informed understanding
- Ability to guide change and influence decision making
