IT Project Manager - Motorola Solutions

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions , we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Job Description

This position is for a project manager to maintain complete oversight of projects including communications and change management. The project manager will maintain project roadmaps, schedules, etc., as well as facilitating the project teams’ daily work and removing obstacles or impediments for the successful delivery and adoption

Role & Duties:

Ensure overall successful project delivery (on-time, on-budget, high quality, meeting business outcomes)

Lead projects with overall responsibility for successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, status reporting, and closure

Drive activities to achieve measurable outcomes by managing schedule, resources, scope, deliverables, budget, risk, issues, dependency, vendor relationships, and communications

Collaborate with project and program leads to create overarching business cases, project charters, communication plans, delivery timelines, detailed schedules, and resources required

Lead Change management and communication activities on the project with IT and Business team members

Provides timely updates to the IT leads, functional leads, IT PMO, and key stakeholders by producing regular status reports and steering governance updates

Facilitate the team's daily work, including all the scheduled meetings

Create a collaborative environment that allows the team and stakeholders to interact closely

Remove the obstacles or impediments faced by the team in its work

Mentor the team members to adopt a truly Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management, and empowerment

Able to work after hours during critical windows (UAT, PROD Deployments)

Expected Skills:

Project management skills: create and execute project plans, proactively manage risks/issues, maintain compliance with project management processes, have an eye for detail, independently maintain project documentation, drive follow-up on open actions, etc.

Excellent oral and written communication skills in English: Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation. Ability to drive productive conversations and team meetings. Active listening skills.

Excellent People skills: a combination of skills, including an ability to ask penetrating que