IT PM (W2)

Title: IT Project Manager

Location: St, Louis, MO – Hybrid (1-2 days a month)

Duration: 12+ Months with potential conversion

Headcount: 2

Roles: Two different project manager positions, same manager, but 2 different teams, 2 different needs. Each handling 1 to 2 projects next year.

Both positions need: Jira/Confluence, Microsoft products - Excel, CoPilot, and software project experience.

Projects overview

• Position/project 1 (Billing systems and Regulatory requirements): Software-related work updating the main billing system. Likely has tight deliverable deadlines. Project size is still being determined.
• Position/project 2 (Metering System): Also regulatory in nature, with similar PM responsibilities. Much more technical position should have software project management experience.

Project overview

• Project 1 (regulatory): Software-related work updating the main billing system. Likely has tight deliverable deadlines. Project size is still being determined.
• Project 2: Also regulatory in nature, with similar PM responsibilities.

Day-to-day: Standard full-lifecycle project management (initiation, planning, execution, closure). They will work directly with technical and business leads and handle status reporting. A financial analyst does the financials, but the PM partners with them on forecasting and must track spend.

Must-have skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Schedule management and holding people accountable
• Budget tracking (spotting under- or overspending), without deep financial expertise
• Organization, given the volume of work

Nice-to-have

• PMP (not required)
• Scrum Master experience (for the regulatory role)
• Utility industry experience (not required)

Work arrangement: Hybrid with no set in-office days. They need to be local enough to attend monthly stakeholder and leadership updates in person, so roughly 1 to 2 days a month at minimum.

Interview process: In person, ideally one round. An additional round may be added only if there are several strong candidates and more input is needed.

Extend or Convert: Likely to extend. Possible to convert depending on need in 2027

Position Overview

• Client is seeking an experienced IT/Digital Project Manager to lead technology projects and initiatives across a variety of areas. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded Project Manager who can manage multiple concurrent projects, work effectively with business and technical teams, and adapt their approach across predictive/waterfall, Agile, and hybrid delivery models.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead IT/Digital projects from planning through closure.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and changes.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, forecasts, RAID items, and status reporting.
• Coordinate activities and dependencies across business, technical, and vendor teams.
• Manage concurrent projects that may span applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, vendor solutions, and other technology initiatives.
• Facilitate project meetings, decisions, governance, and change control.
• Manage project financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances.
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive accountability for project commitments and escalate issues when appropriate.
• Ensure projects follow applicable project governance and control processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Project Management experience in medium to large organizations.
• Demonstrated experience managing technology projects using predictive/waterfall, Agile, and hybrid approaches.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and cross-team dependencies.
• Strong project planning, scheduling, financial management, risk, issue, and change management skills.
• Experience working with business stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party vendors.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Jira.
• Ability to understand technical concepts without needing to be the technical subject matter expert.
• PMP preferred but not required.
• Degree preferred but not required.

Work Environment

• Hybrid work environment.