Project Manager – PMO Internal Governance Capability

Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager – PMO Internal Governance Capability
Location: Hybrid in Minneapolis, MN – Onsite 3 days per week – Local candidates only.
Start Date: ASAP Duration: Now through 12/31/24
Hours/Week: 40 hours
Rate: $70-$80/hour depending on experience
Contract Type: W2 Only (No 1099’s or Corp to Corp)

Scope of Services:

The Project Manager will be working with security, compliance, and development teams to establish a scalable regional internal governance capability. Partnering with senior leadership and application teams this person will work to transform how we govern, manage, and remediate security findings to support regional vulnerability management. Seeking someone with (preferably) robust security compliance experience who can partner with leadership to bring this effort to life and manage ongoing execution. The ability to work through ambiguity, influence leadership, and a strong process-sustainability lens will all critical.

Essential Functions:

• This role is within a PMO and will lead the buildout of a scalable regional internal governance capability.
• Driving execution of Global Information Security Framework process through communication and follow-up with application owners & teams.
• Manage the budget and forecasting
• Create and maintain plan in MS Project Server; includes budget & forecasting, accruals, invoice mapping, and ensuring resources have appropriate time tracking buckets setup to bill time. Project Server is our core resource planning and financial management tool
• Partner with senior leadership in creating a communication plan that includes both internal and external communication, meetings, and documentation/reporting requirements
• Partner with functional resource managers to ensure work efforts are effectively resourced & prioritized
• Follow release management process to schedule and manage code releases
• Monitor progress of deliverables, quality, proactively identifying risks, issues and escalation as needed with appropriate leadership
• Interface with stakeholders to manage expectations
• Assure compliance with delivery processes and standards. Including management of project documentation following standards (i.e. Team Working Agreement, Status Reporting, EA Recommendation, Release Documentation in ServiceNow etc)

Knowledge, Skill & Competency Requirements:

• Demonstrated communication and influencing skills
• Knowledge and understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Highly skilled in the use of Microsoft Project Server
• Experience in formal techniques of risk management
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Experience in change management

Education & Experience:

• Past experience in security compliance execution within an enterprise environment preferred
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of IT delivery management experience
• PMP certification or other formal project management training preferred