Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harvey Nash is seeking an experienced Information Technology Project Manager to lead business and functional projects from definition through operational handoff. The role establishes governance, translates business objectives into executable plans, coordinates cross-functional delivery, manages risks and dependencies, and supports process improvement, adoption, and transition.
Responsibilities
- Project definition and planning. Partner with sponsors and business leaders to clarify objectives, scope, success measures, deliverables, assumptions, constraints, resources, milestones, and decision rights
- Delivery leadership. Build and maintain integrated project plans; coordinate work across functional teams; monitor progress; and drive timely execution through completion and operational handoff
- Stakeholder alignment. Establish productive relationships with sponsors, functional leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, and other partners. Facilitate clear decisions, commitments, and accountability
- Governance and reporting. Create an appropriate operating rhythm, including status reporting, working sessions, steering updates, decision logs, and action tracking. Escalate clearly and at the right time
- Risk and dependency management. Identify, assess, document, and actively manage risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and cross-project dependencies
- Change control. Evaluate proposed changes to scope, schedule, cost, resources, and expected outcomes; document impacts and guide stakeholders through approval and prioritization decisions
- Business process focus. Map current and future-state processes, surface gaps, coordinate requirements, and support practical improvements that are sustainable after project close
- Adoption and transition. Coordinate readiness, communications, training, documentation, stakeholder feedback, and handoff activities with the accountable business owners
- Continuous improvement. Capture lessons learned and recommend fit-for-purpose improvements to project practices, workflows, templates, and governance
Skills
- • Demonstrated experience independently leading complex business or functional projects with cross-functional stakeholders
- • Strong command of project management fundamentals, including planning, governance, scope, schedule, cost awareness, risks, issues, dependencies, change control, and status reporting
- • Ability to translate broad business objectives into clear workstreams, deliverables, ownership, and measurable outcomes
- • Executive-ready written and verbal communication, with the judgment to tailor detail for sponsors, leaders, and project teams
- • Proven facilitation, negotiation, and influence skills in matrixed environments where authority may be indirect
- • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize incomplete or conflicting information and drive decisions
- • Experience with business process analysis, operational improvement, organizational change, or business transformation initiatives
- • Ability to manage multiple priorities, work with limited direction, and bring structure to ambiguous situations
- • Proficiency with standard project planning, collaboration, reporting, presentation, and documentation tools
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
- • Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent credential
- • Experience supporting globally distributed teams or multi-region initiatives
- • Experience working within a formal PMO, portfolio governance model, or strategic planning environment
- • Technical aptitude sufficient to partner effectively with IT, data, systems, security, and vendor teams when a business project has technical dependencies
- • Working knowledge of portfolio or strategic portfolio management tools
- • Experience with process mapping, requirements elicitation, change management, or operational readiness
Benefits
- 6-month contract
- Fully remote (US)
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