Project Manager IT

This is a 12-month contract position based in Greensboro, North Carolina. You will serve as Project Manager for IT initiatives, overseeing project planning, execution, delivery lifecycle management, and stakeholder coordination across business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and execution by defining scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, schedules, dependencies, resource needs, and governance expectations with business and IT stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional project teams, SAP functional and technical resources, infrastructure, security, testing teams, external vendors, and business subject-matter experts to maintain alignment and delivery accountability.
• Maintain integrated project plans and track actions, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and change requests; escalate items requiring leadership direction and follow through to closure.
• Prepare clear project status reports covering accomplishments, upcoming milestones, schedule health, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and required management actions.
• Facilitate project meetings, requirements workshops, design reviews, testing checkpoints, readiness reviews, cutover planning sessions, and post-launch stabilization meetings; document decisions, owners, and due dates.
• Coordinate SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) planning, test readiness, execution progress, defect triage, business sign-off, deployment readiness, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to support.
• Apply change-control and quality-management practices to validate scope changes, assess business and technical impacts, coordinate approvals, and protect committed delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Project management experience with project planning, scope definition, scheduling, resource allocation, milestone tracking, RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, governance, status reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience coordinating delivery lifecycle activities including requirements gathering, design coordination, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect management, cutover planning, go-live execution, hypercare, and transition to support.
• Demonstrated ability to manage vendor coordination, quality assurance, and change control processes.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills for cross-functional meetings, workshops, and executive reporting.