IT Operations Lead

The Opportunity

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.

As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.

Join our team and create your future

Position Summary

The Corp APMO IT Operations team is seeing a full time resource to support the ongoing M&A and Huron Managed Services objectives. This individual should have solid experience managing the technical deliverables for all phases of the M&A (due diligence, pre-integration, close, and integration) and Managed Services lifecycle.

The candidate will leverage his/her skills to communicate, influence, and negotiate effectively with business and technology stakeholders to align expectations and execute accordingly throughout the entirety of the program lifecycle.

The candidate will also assist with the management of operations by executing deliverables related to process standardization, organizational structure, and/or performance reporting.

The candidate has the confidence to provide direction to and/or challenge stakeholders, when necessary, in a respectful manner. The candidate has the humility and self-awareness to change his/her own behavior/process for the betterment of the project.

Qualifications

• Act as a servant leader to support self-organizing and self-managing teams that deliver value to the business.
• Demonstrate leadership and overall responsibility, including scheduling, project management documentation, project requirements and scope management, and quality for designated technology projects.
• Coordinates and manages meetings with IT and business resources to ensure the appropriate level of collaboration and awareness are provided.
• Negotiates with stakeholders, such as functional and technical owners, to keep scope, schedule and resources in balance.
• Must be able to effectively communicate program/project status (written and verbal) to all stakeholders, including senior leadership, technical, non-technical, and target resources.
• Regardless of complexity or unknown technology knowledge/expertise, unknown stakeholders, etc., the candidate has proficiency with and will still be able to independently navigate stakeholders through the entire program/project lifecycle and complete all deliverables.
• The candidate is consciously aware of what techniques are effective and ineffective and has the experience/skillset to independently make the appropriate, effective changes.
• The candidate can capture, document, and explain the sequencing of key deliverables that need to occur on a project and understands the dependencies across each deliverable. Also, in the event one of the deliverables has a change, the candidate works with the project team to articulate the impact and create a mitigation plan to address it.
• The candidate can identify project risks, propose solutions to resolve or options to mitigate the risk, and articulate them to the Project Team and the Project Stakeholders. It is not enough to simply log a risk and communicate the risk.

Candidate Characteristics

• Cares more about meeting the business outcomes of a project or task than performing the responsibilities on the job description.
• Humble – understands that there is always opportunity for growth.
• Respects others’ perspectives with an open willingness to be onboard with a differing opinion.
• Intellectually curious
• High Emotional Intelligence
• Unafraid to share his/her own perspective in a collaborative manner even if it goes against popular opinion.
• Adapts quickly to new and changing environments.
• Confident self-starter who requires minimal supervision, comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable
• Builds positive and collaborative relationships with customers and IT team members.
• Strong attention to detail. 
• Strong analytical, problem solving and quantitative abilities.
• Works effectively in a team environment where team members are in different locations and time zones.
• End-to-end thinking: understands the overall goal(s) and grasps how the various tasks will accomplish the overall goal(s).
• Performs well i