IT Project Manager - Digital Solution Implementation - Management consulting firm

Client - TIER 1 Management consulting firm

Employment Type - Contract (6-12 months)

- IT project managers will be responsible for planning, organizing, allocating resources for, budgeting, and successfully executing organizations' specific IT goals. Such projects might include:

- Software and app development

- Hardware installations

- Network upgrades

- Cloud computing and virtualization rollouts

- Projects around business analytics and data management

- Miscellaneous IT services

- IT projects come with an array of complex challenges. Even seemingly simple, straightforward projects tend to get more complicated thanks to factors such as:

- Changing or unclear client priorities

- Unforeseen relationships among hardware, software, networks, and data

- Technological updates and advancements that occur in the middle of the project

- Infrastructure changes that impact data security and management

- Work activities

- Developing project plans, goals, and budgets; identifying resources needed

- Developing schedules and methods for measuring results

- Guiding and performing strategic analysis for the project

- Organising and managing all phases of the project to ensure on-time completion

- Assembling and coordinating project team members; assigning individual responsibilities

- Preparing requests for proposals and conducting all necessary meetings to facilitate selection of project services and products

- Planning and overseeing the preparation and dissemination of project communications.

- Develop a renewal and upgrade schedule for company software programs and

- Ensure that employees are following computer use policies, information security and privacy

- Participate in recruitment, orientation and ongoing training of new IT staff

- Supervise and direct IT personnel