IT Project Manager

US LBM is one of the leading and fastest growing distributors of specialty building materials in the United States, with a team of over 15,000 employees located throughout the country. Since our founding in 2009, we have acquired over 70 companies and have expanded to more than 500 locations serving 37 states. US LBM is a progressive organization that promotes a unique culture that focuses on the value of its customers and associates. Developing our people is critical to our strategy and fostering our culture of empowerment.

The IT Project Manager is responsible for providing end-to-end project management and leadership for managing complex and high-risk projects. With supervision, this position will oversee project budgets and schedules; managing day-to-day aspects of project scope; minimizing project risk; creating and managing project plans.

The IT Project Manager must elicit, accurately characterize, and document project goals, scope, stakeholders, risks, issues, success measures, effort, and resource estimates. This position will coordinate the completion of projects on time, within budget, and within scope. They will set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor and summarize the progress of project, and report the status of projects to management. The IT Project Manager will ensure all PMO requirements are met. This includes following the Phase/Gate process and will be responsible for presenting all project artifacts during gate reviews.

This role will report to the Director of IT Program Management and work closely with the PMO. The Manager – Project Delivery will be critical to the success of transformative projects and initiatives at US LBM and our portfolio of companies, playing a key role as the company continues its aggressive growth.

Essential Functions:

• Oversee projects to achieve project success in the areas of Scope, Schedule, Budget, and realized Benefits.
• Identify project options, develops business cases, and secures required approvals. Lead requirements gathering and planning process, working closely with key stakeholders.
• Define the appropriate project scope aligned to corporate strategies.
• Identify and manage critical paths, being mindful of upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Ensure coordination with other key initiatives, and addresses and resolve project conflicts.
• Develop project plans, key milestone schedules, and cost/benefit analysis.
• Manage project financials including budgeting, forecasting, and tracks actuals.
• Review actuals versus planned budgets throughout the project lifecycle to identify variances and recommend corrective action.
• Track and manage the project schedule and its dependencies.
• Facilitate PMO-level reviews of the project status and health.
• Ensure issues and risks are managed, mitigated, and communicated to senior leadership.
• Apply change management processes and tools to create a strategy to support adopting the changes required for our change initiatives.
• Understand and manage the scope of small and medium-sized projects, considering business requirements, budget, resources, and capabilities.
• Work with IT and Business partners to identify and schedule all the work for end-to-end deployment required to fulfill the project requirements.
• Ensure project milestones are accomplished, and overall committed timelines are met.
• Communicate updates on major milestones and keep all stakeholders informed of progress and issues.
• Identify and manage proposed project changes, working with business stakeholders and project managers to ensure appropriate processes and communications are followed.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Required for All Jobs
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or a related field is required.

Experience:

4-6 years of project management experience is required.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Experience with either Agile or waterfall project management techniques.
• Demonstrated ability leading a small to medium sized project teams.
• Technical competency in IT/Systems, combined with business acumen to understand and translate between business and technical requirements.
• Have an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and be comfortable multitasking and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Possess excellent communication skills and organizational awareness.
• Must be a leader with the knowledge and experience to “get things done.”
• Outstanding presentation and interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to direct multiple projects in parallel in a highly matrix, fast-paced, multi-site organization experiencing rapid growth.
• Ability to map related tasks into a plan and communicate interdependencies with other projects and programs.
• Ability to track and coordinate resources and tasks across multiple organizations and/or projects.
• Most work is remote with some travel likely to Operating Companies and US LBM locations along with business-related meetings & conferences.
• Ability to lead and work in remote teams across time zones and geographies
• May have to work off-hours if there are critical problems requiring IT intervention. May be weekend work if projects or assignments necessitate activity when workers are out of the office.

Licenses And Certifications:

• Certified Project Management.
• Professional (PMP)-PMI is preferred.
• Agile is preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Certification-IASSC is preferred.

US LBM Holdings, LLC, is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, order of protection status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.