IT Project Manager V

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $113.51hr - $118.51hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• Bachelor Degree in applicable profession, business, or technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Possesses three to five years of experience.
• Ownership of an integrated portfolio with at least three meaningful technology workstreams.
• Joint business and IT PMO experience.
• Portfolio financial management, forecasting, reconciliation, and value tracking.
• Risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change-control discipline.
• Executive communication that converts complexity into clear decisions, consequences, and next steps.
• Multi-vendor technology-transformation experience.
• Ability to drive closure across senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfort with hybrid agile and stage-gated governance.
• Credible examples or sanitized work samples of integrated plans, executive reporting, financial rollups, or decision governance.

Responsibilities:

• Apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of IT system investments.
• Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Own the integrated portfolio workplan, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, stage-gate readiness, and ownership.
• Consolidate baseline budget, forecast, actuals, contingency, and variance explanations; reconcile the internal view with IT reporting.
• Maintain integrated risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, and changes with owners, dates, escalation thresholds, and aging.
• Prepare weekly and monthly portfolio rollups and concise, decision-ready materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Operate governance, intake, and change control for additions, descopes, pauses, and reprioritization.
• Coordinate vendor and contract oversight with internal departments, IT, Finance, Procurement, and delivery partners.
• Design and maintain the operating model, RACI, governance calendar, escalation paths, and boundary with the existing PMO.
• Support business and IT project-lead pairings without taking over product or workstream delivery accountability.
• Create a durable PMO package with templates, cadence, decision history, and handoff instructions.

Nice to Have:

• Utility or other regulated-industry experience.
• Customer-service technology experience, including conversational AI, contact-center platforms, billing, collections, SAP, or related systems.
• Experience mobilizing a new PMO and leaving a sustainable operating model.
• Familiarity with enterprise portfolio tools and governance forums.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on artifact creation.

Skills:

• Project Management.
• Portfolio Management.
• Financial Forecasting.
• Risk Management.
• Executive Communication.
• Vendor Management.
• Agile.
• Governance.
• SAP.

Qualification And Education:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.