Project Manager (W2)

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Hybrid, 1 3 days/week in St. Louis, MO

Interview mode: Preference for in-person interviews

Must-Have (Hard) Skills

1. Strong Jira experience needs to ramp up fast.
2. Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects (not just one at a time).
3. General PM experience has "done the job before."

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 multiple 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 Ameren 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/Planner and Jira.
• PMP preferred but not required.
• Degree preferred but not required.