IT Project Manager - United Wheels : Job Details

• Overview of the Company
• United Wheels Inc. (“UWI”) is an international, privately held business, with affiliated companies and operations in Asia, the Americas and around the world. UWI is a world leader in the design, manufacture and international distribution of bicycles, e-bikes, and rideable toys, manufacturing more than 6 million bicycles and e-Bikes each year
• UWI owns and operates several bicycle-related subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include:
• Huffy Corp. ( the iconic bicycling company based in Dayton, Ohio, with more than 125+ years of bicycling history.
• Buzz Bicycles (https//.buzzbicycles.com)
• Batch Outdoors Inc. (
• Niner Brands International Inc. (
• VAAST Bicycles (
• Summary
• Reporting to the Director of IT Solutions, the role of the IT Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. The IT Project Manager will also define the project's objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.
• This position is also responsible for the consistent flow of current, accurate, and usable information from the IT Steering Committee to the Project Management Office (PMO) and vice-versa. The IT Steering Committee provides oversight of existing projects, and the IT Project Manager must provide timely and accurate status information to support this activity. The IT Steering Committee requires a perpetually current and usable forecast of resource capacity. The IT Project Manager is tasked with collecting and updating projections of project timing and resource allocations for the upcoming 6-month period in order to provide that capacity forecast. Capacity forecasting includes reconciliation of past resource allocations against realized capacity based on input from the project teams.
• Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Strategy & Planning
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Set, manage, and effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Report on status of existing projects.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Conduct project post-mortems/retrospectives and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Forecast future resource capacity.
• Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.

Operational Management

• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and contractors and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Ensure the timely entry and updating of data by various process owners and report on deficiencies in this to PMO leadership.

Supervisory ResponsibilitiesNo current supervisory responsibilities. Matrix leadership responsibility for technical and business resources supporting projects, including development and implementation activities.Education And/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a business or technology related field of study
• Minimum of three years of relevant experience, including:
• Progressively responsible project and portfolio management experience
• Experience in scoping project requests and developing end user requirements
• Experience in business process analysis and re-engineering
• Formal training in industry standard project management concepts, methodologies and tools; Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute preferred, Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification through the Project Management Institute acceptable with commensurate experience.
• Direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Strong familiarity with project management and project portfolio management software.
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products.
• Ability to effectively and efficiently manage multiple projects and efforts simultaneously, including ability to set appropriate priorities to effect timely completion of numerous concurrent tasks and projects within defined resource limitations

Competencies

• Customer Focus - Aims to satisfy all customers while maintaining effective relationships, both internal and external. Maximizes those relationships to improve personal, department, and organizational performance. Holds co-workers and customers to a similar standard.
• Energy - Have a tremendous amount of energy and passion for our people, products, and brands. Approaches each date willing to take on the day's challenges. Operating at their individual peak performance without encouragement.
• Energize - Energize teams with enthusiasm and excitement without intimidating them. Projects a positive mental attitude and can-do spirit, who lifts up members of his / her team. Does not get discouraged by setbacks.
• Edge - Have a competitive edge and an overwhelming desire to win. Hates losing and will give 100% commitment to achieving or exceeding their plan. Willing to make difficult decisions, when called upon.
• Execution - Action and performance oriented and are focused on attaining results. A team player who is reliable and follows through on tasks to completion. Attention to details.
• Increases Company Value - Strives to increase sales, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and maximize profits to increase the value of the Company.
• Innovative / Continuous Improvement - Committed to improving processes, products, services, and a willingness to embrace change for the benefit of our team, department, organization, and shareholders.
• Integrity - The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Elevating challenges in order to collaborate with co-workers, SLT, ELT, and the Board.

Language SkillsExceptional communication skills, both oral and written; the ability to communicate effectively by adapting approach, language and style to a wide variety of audiences, including stakeholders that are both technical and non-technical; ability to grasp and communicate the big picture while remaining conversant with detailsMathematical SkillsAbility to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. Understanding of financial and accounting management, including business case development.Reasoning AbilityAbility to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.Computer SkillsMicrosoft Office, knowledge of systems, software, and hardware, including application systems and operating systems. Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute preferred, Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification through the Project Management Institute acceptable with commensurate experience.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.#J-18808-Ljbffr