IBM jobs - Senior Project Manager

Introduction
At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!


Your Role and Responsibilities
As Project Manager, you are responsible for project management support of both client and cloud network environments. You will support projects and stakeholders in client facing roles.

If you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative workplace, IBM provides an environment where you will be challenged and inspired every single day. And if you relish the freedom to bring creative, thoughtful solutions to the table, there's no limit to what you can accomplish here.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize PM profession skills to enhance the level of service and quality of deliverables.
  Exhibit project leadership in a shared services resource environment

• Ability to collect technical inputs from subject matter experts and create solutions to drive aggressive timelines
• Communicate complex issues to stakeholders with recommendations on the path forward.
• Manage fleet refresh projects including hardware and software
• Assistance in security deployment and management.
• Allocate resources appropriately to meet program needs and minimize resource contention.
• Coordinate stakeholder meetings to ensure all parties understand the deliveries and milestones and the resources that are assigned
• Facilitate/manage solution Maturing phase of the project by working with design/solution team.
• Develop detailed implementation plans using MS Project or Account specific tool
  Conduct Project Definition Workshops with all the stakeholders and produce the written report - Project Definition Report.
• Work with various delivery team to ensure that all relevant teams within IBM and alliance teams/sub-contractors are engaged during implementation.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 10+years of overall experience in IT industry
• Minimum 5+ years IT operations and engineering experience.
• Minimum 2+ years cloud network and security technologies experience.
• Proficient in Agile methodology with an ability to adapt quickly to changing technology requirements
• Proven project management skill and an ability to navigate fast-paced and rapidly evolving environments, # Knowledge of the PMI Process Groups; Initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Knowledge of current Project Management methodologies
• Solid experience in Implementation of Infrastructure projects, including preferred experience with Intel, Midrange or Mainframe platforms, SAN/Storage, TSM, Networks, Data Centre, Server, Security, Desktop, Active Directories, Security
• Able to Negotiates effectively with team members to define the team's goals, work content and schedules.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Project Management Professional certification
• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications