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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

Education:

• Required:  Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Math, Science or Technology
• Preferred:  Masters degree in Engineering, Math, Science, Technology or Business

Required Experience:

• 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

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working in a regulated industry
• Experience managing projects associated with mergers and acquisitions
• Experience managing Oracle ERP projects

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• 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

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Light & Wonder, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in the highly regulated gaming business. As a result, L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, and/or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. To ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements necessary to fulfill their individual roles.  As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting due diligence and a background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. 

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