IT Project Manager | Disaster Recovery (Remote)

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking an IT Project Manager to join their ePMO team. This role is responsible for the successful delivery of IT initiatives, including project planning, financial management, risk assessment, and communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation strategy, definition of project scope, adherence to THD's compliance toll gate artifacts (Charter, Business Acceptance Document, etc.) and definition of project specific deliverables, creation of a logical work breakdown structure and definition of major project milestones
• Instrumental in the creation of a project Cost Benefit Analysis to determine viability and justification of project(s). Responsible for labor and hard capital project forecasting and updating THD's financials system
• Leads the development of effective plans for controlling project scope, schedule and cost baseline, and monitors the project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Document and explain changes to the baseline, driving the approval process, and ensures the approved changes are implemented
• Develops or approves an effective plan for communicating program information to the project stakeholders. Creates and approves written status reports highlighting any potential schedule, resource and cost issues. If necessary, creates store communication about project(s) deployment
• Leads the definition of project risks, and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for risks and takes timely action to mitigate them. Advises project team members, stakeholders and senior management of actions required or completed
• Ensures lessons learned are documented and applied to subsequent projects. Responsible for ensuring that all invoices have been paid and that updates are made to THD's internal system showing that the project is closed

Requirements:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• 5+ years of related experience
• Experience with project management execution in a modern software environment; experience managing technical projects
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate at various levels of the organization (within the team/portfolio as well as with senior leadership), to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical
• Bachelor degree, MS a plus or equivalent (e.g., CPA, PE, etc.)
• PMP certification
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Working knowledge of Tableau
• Ability to draw accurate conclusions from financial documentation
• Experience with the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategies
• 5-10 years of related experience
• Experience with Agile Methodology (Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Facilitating Retros)
• Working knowledge of Jira, Jira Align, Kanban, Confluence
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• MS Project and office tools