Senior Technical Project Manager - Red Hat

Company Description

At Red Hat , we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

We have a requirement for a Senior Project Manager to help with the delivery of Red Hat 's solutions across ANZ, for various customers. In this role, you’ll actively manage projects to successful completion from initiation through delivery and closure. This requires excellent coordination of cross-functional teams (through meetings and progress measurement activity) which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget. You should be an experienced project management professional with a full understanding of industry standard project management practices with the ability to interact with Red Hat and customer senior management. You will work on problems with diverse scope, evaluate identifiable factors, and demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. You'll also need excellent communication skills and the ability to support multiple teams across various geographies.

Primary job responsibilities

Control project requirements, scope, and change management issues

Determine, monitor, and review all project economics to include costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources, and risk

Ensure adherence to legally binding requirements

Facilitate development of recommended project control solutions to be used for planning, scheduling, and tracking projects through integration of various project management tools

Manage project forecast projections to both client and internally within Red Hat

Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring

Establish appropriate metrics for measuring key project criteria

Develop project status reports

Lead status review meetings among project team members and clients

Integrate and use specific industry PM and technical delivery methodologies (e.g. PM methodologies based on Agile, Waterfall, Systems/Software Development, Product Development).

Required skills

5+ years as a project manager

Track record of successfully managing complex projects from inception to closure

Experience with establishing, and contributing to, process improvements

Experience in dealing with complex projects and multicultural and multidisciplinary teams

Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, leadership skills, analy