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Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
Corporate: Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees. Position Summary Job Summary: The Light & Wonder IT PMO organization is responsible for delivering corporate IT projects for Light & Wonder. We are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to join our project management team. Essential Job Functions: The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for leading project teams to deliver Light & Wonder cross-functional IT projects. Project and program management responsibilities include:
- Developing and managing to industry standard project management procedures that govern our project activities
- Maintaining the appropriate balance of scope, quality, schedule and cost across programs and projects to achieve business objectives
- Developing and maintaining overall program and project implementation plans
- Monitoring program/project schedules and financials to ensure that work is progressing according to budget and expected delivery timelines
- Communicating an objective periodic (normally weekly) assessment of project status, using metrics when available, to project stakeholders and senior management sponsors
- Identifying, documenting and managing Risks, Actions/Issues and Decisions within the program/projects and ensuring any required follow-up activities are completed
- Ensuring sign-off from stakeholders on key milestones
- Identifying areas where project team is blocked, facilitating targeted problem solving and next steps for the team to proceed
- Working with project team members and stakeholders as needed to communicate and escalate risks and issues to project sponsors
- Ensuring that team resources are being deployed as efficiently as possible by following consistent processes that allow us to minimize rework
- Clarifying priorities and dependencies to ensure that work is completed in the appropriate sequence
- Working with project team and stakeholders to ensure project requirements are documented and approved
- Developing presentations and conducting steering committee meetings as required
- Managing stakeholder and project team relationships fostering collaboration and team spirit, demonstrating leadership by example
- Required: Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Math, Science or Technology
- Preferred: Masters degree in Engineering, Math, Science, Technology or Business
- Minimum 5 years of project management experience with progressive levels of responsibility
- Experience leading project teams in a matrix organization
- Experience leading projects requiring data collection, data cleansing and data conversion
- Experience leading ERP or application development projects
- Experience managing project financials (budget, forecast, actual spend) with an understanding of capital vs expense spending
- Experience leading IT infrastructure projects
- Experience working in a regulated industry
- Experience managing projects associated with mergers and acquisitions
- Experience managing Oracle ERP projects
- Extensive attention to detail – ability to define and monitor detailed project deliverables, risks, issues and action items and work with team to drive them to completion
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills – ability to effectively lead meetings and communicate project status/issues to all levels of the organization, including senior management
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent time management skills with a willingness to manage various types of projects concurrently
- CAPM or PMP or certification or a willingness to achieve in the next 18 months
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams and Power Point
About the Company
Light & Wonder
Las Vegas, NV, United States
At Light & Wonder, we create the games that people want to play, wherever they are, whenever they want to play. In our pursuit of becoming a... Read more