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Want to join one of the nation's best employers? Interested in providing small and medium sized businesses with solutions that make them grow? Do you like serving customers and care about people? Then maybe Heartland is for you: We're looking for team members who are excited by our mantra - Entrepreneurs Respectfully Serving Entrepreneurs, and who want to work in a culture built on care, focus and quality. We need customer-focused, can-do, team-oriented folks who are ok having fun. As a Senior IT Project Manager for the Heartland Payroll Technology team you will be planning, executing, and delivering all projects on time, in budget, and within scope in accordance with business priorities. Throughout the lifecycle of each project, the manager tracks project status and manages project teams to mitigate issues and risks. Other duties may involve mentoring/coaching others, designing change strategies, assessing stakeholder impacts and organizational readiness, recommending and/or implementing appropriate communication, organizing and/or conducting training, and measuring effectiveness of outcomes. You will be working with Scrum based Agile software teams; they are responsible for building quality and optimizing the software delivery pipeline. We are looking for someone who is passionate about their craft, enjoys coming to work, and having fun with like minded people developing software that matters to our stakeholders. What will you be doing? Direct large-scale, complex projects that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related project management artifacts Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value Validate financial forecasts and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures Partner with IT and non IT business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles Provides direction and coordination for software application enhancements Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects, including maintenance of applications and/or infrastructure devices Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company Continually update relevant business stakeholder of project status and periodically publish project status reports Serve as a subject matter expert to regularly brief key stakeholders on different aspects of assigned initiatives Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case What are the requirements? Bachelor's Degree in a related field Demonstrated experience in establishing and delivering complex projects Experience working within enterprise IT environments Experienced in partnering with senior stakeholders to identify and address project issues Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines Strong planning, organizational, and leadership skills, including the ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages with grace, and execute with limited information and ambiguity Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision Strong influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to navigate in a highly matrixed organization effectively Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to make effective presentations, and proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders Focused and versatile team player who is comfortable under pressure, ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability Sound business and technical acumen Two years of supervisory experience (preferred) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (preferred)