Your Role and Responsibilities
As a successful Project Manager in Technology Expert Labs, you will lead a team of technical experts to ensure the formulation, development, and implementation of projects that meet and exceed the client’s business objectives. In this role, you will work closely with client stakeholders and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution plan, budget, schedule, and staffing requirements while exceeding your client’s expectations. Project Managers at IBM succeed by demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and presenting solutions.
- Project Management:Creating and executing project management plans including, financial, scope, and change, deliverables and communication controls.
- Cross-Team Communication:Strong communication skills (written and verbal) with the client, partner, and account team on project status.
- Reporting and Metrics Management:Report and strategize solutions for managing project metrics including project health, financials-costs, revenue, and gross profit, team productivity, and client satisfaction.
- Building Credibility and Influences:Navigating across venues to resolve issues, developing and documenting risk mitigation strategies, providing project direction that quickly builds credibility and influences as a trusted advisor.
- Developing a high-performing team:Cultivating teamwork and problem-solving while working under delivery expectations and deadlines.
- Empathy and Service Skills:Demonstrating empathy and service orientation skills for client success.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Agile Project Delivery Expertise:A provable track record of project delivery disciplines and frameworks using agile best practices to successfully delivery in a way that’s both nimble and fast.
- Success in Communication and Relationship Building:Demonstrable success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
- IBM Power Infrastructure Expertise:Familiar with the design, deployment and optimization of infrastructure solutions for clients based on IBM Power servers running IBM i operating system with PowerVM virtualization.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise