Sr Manager Site IT

Purpose Statement: The IT Project Management Manager is the functional leader of project delivery and governance across the IT organization. This includes ownership and maintenance of all policies and procedures pertaining to the project life cycle (PLC) in order to ensure successful delivery of IT projects. An addition to leading project management resources, this role will also provide guidance and support to non-Project Management Office (PMO) leaders managing projects outside of the PMO. Key Job Accountabilities: - Provide oversight of project management methodology and toll gate process to ensure successful planning, execution, and delivery of IT projects. - Manage IT project portfolio to provide a centralized overview of both planned and active projects. - Manage and facilitate project intake and prioritization process; aids in driving greater value, strategic alignment, resource forecasting, and data-driven decision making. - Communicate project progress, changes and status to customers and team members in a timely manner to ensure schedule and customer expectations are met and/or exceeded. - Manage all projects in accordance with the IT program management office (PMO) methodology. Create and maintain a project plan that outlines the tasks, milestones, dates, status and resource allocation, risk/mitigation plan, communication plan and training plan. Manage project scope, schedule and cost to deliver maximum value to Plexus. - Indirectly manage and coordinate activities of project personnel across geographical boundaries to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget. - Instruct, direct, and oversee PMO staffing. Determine staffing needs, perform hiring, scheduling, and administration of performance reviews to support staff and departmental development. Drive alignment with global IT teams. - Actively support Plexus lean culture by leading continuous improvement initiatives; work to eliminate waste and optimize IT processes. - Creates policies, procedures, and standards for PMO team. - Ensure that the IT PMO is kept abreast on emerging technologies, methods, and best practices. - Perform program management as required; this includes planning and monitoring progression of milestones, coordinating interdependencies, and ensuring deliverables are aligned across projects in the program. Additional Accountabilities: - Effectively communicate and manage expectations of PMO to project managers, sponsors, team members, and other stakeholders in a clear and concise fashion. - Monitors and reports on compliance to ensure the organization adheres to agreed policies. - Manage resource allocation for global PMO team. - Responsible for performance reviews and team member development. - As a senior project manager, mentor and support other projects managers and actively pursue ongoing enhancements to the PMO process. - Facilitate customer and team meetings to ensure schedule, budget and customer expectations are met. Effectively plans project deliverables, goals and milestones. - Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. - Efficiently identifies and solves project issues. - Manages conflicts within the project team. Performs team assessments and evaluations. - Instills and reinforces the Plexus culture and fosters positive change as part of daily activities within the project teams. - Strong organizational, time management, presentation and customer service skills. - Utilizes the Project Life Cycle (PLC) methodology. - Ensures that technical and project documentation is created/maintained as necessary. - Minimal travel may be required to meet the needs of the business (estimated < 5%). - Additional duties as assigned. Education/Experience Qualifications: - A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required; an MBA/MA degree is preferred. - Seven (7) or more years of related experience is required. - Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred. - An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the key job accountabilities may be considered._ Other Qualifications: - Advanced decision making, problem solving skills. - Advanced verbal and written communication skills. - Good interpersonal, communication and leadership skills; ability to motivate people and manage resources effectively and work with business partners to achieve goals in aggressive timelines. - Business acumen, knowledge and professionalism; understand how a business operates with the ability to develop and articulate the value proposition of a new process or program. - A problem solver; can quickly assess a situation from multiple dimensions, understand and integrate competing needs and develop creative solutions. - Strong builder of teams and trusted relationships. - Functional expertise in project management skills - Must be self-motivated with the ability to work independently and in a team environment. Work Environment: - The work setting should consist of an off