Global IS Project Manager

Company Description

Who is Pyrotek? Pyrotek is the most successful global industrial company you’ve never heard of (until now). Pyrotek is a global leader in high temperature materials and our products impact virtually everyone in the developed world. Our global team has worked for decades to deliver new technologies, advanced engineered systems and innovative materials to customers in industries all over the world. The last car, train and plane you rode in were all safer and more energy efficient because of Pyrotek. The beverage cans in your refrigerator are lighter, stronger and infinitely recyclable because of Pyrotek. Join our team and create, improve and innovate the everyday!

Job Description

The Global IS Project Manager will:

• Bridge gap between business needs and technology solutions
• Analyze business requirements and identify improvement opportunities
• Define, develop, and manage complex IS projects, including scope, objectives, milestones, risks, and financials
• Develop communication and change management plans
• Execute project strategy across asset development phases

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and IS stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, and validate business and system requirements, including:
  • Utilizing demand management methodology to plan and prioritize IS initiatives.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to identify, document, and prioritize business requirements for projects or system enhancements.
  • Work closely with functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications for solutions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Evaluating current technologies for improvement, efficiency gains, and cost reduction.
  • Conducting data analysis to support infrastructure-related decision-making and provide insights into performance, capability, and capacity planning in collaboration with security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
  • Evaluating and ensuring due diligence in the selection of technology solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and align with the overall IS strategy in collaboration with security, infrastructure, development, and operations teams.
  • Identifying and assessing risks and dependencies associated with regional technology projects, providing recommendations for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
  • Partnering with project managers, technical teams, and business stakeholders to ensure successful planning, execution, and delivery of projects.
  • Facilitating the change management process, ensuring that changes align with business needs and are communicated effectively to stakeholders.
  • Ensuring maintenance of comprehensive documentation of requirements, technical specifications, and project-related artifacts.
  • Fostering effective communication and collaboration between business, IS teams, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of solutions.
  • Assisting in managing the impact of infrastructure changes on business processes, systems, and organizational structure, including training and support needs.
• Effectively lead projects to ensure they are delivered within scope and agreed upon timelines, utilizing the defined level of manpower and established third party costs. This includes:
  • Planning: Determine what needs to be done, who is going to do it, when it needs to be done and the deliverables. Key planning duties include defining and clarifying scope, development of the overall project plan including budget, task sequence, schedule, milestones, risk assessment, fiscal plan, quality assurance plan and policies & procedures that support the achievement of objectives.
  • Organizing: Set up the project team within the context of the existing organizational structure. Key organizing duties include defining the organizational structure of the project team including identifying roles, positions, and accountabilities within the team; identifying services to be outsourced; and staffing of project positions.
  • Leadership: Influencing, motivating, communicating, and resolving conflicts to execute the project plan to successfully achieve objectives. Key leadership duties include setting team direction, coordinating activities across organizational functions, holding team members accountable, and selecting team members.
  • Control: Keeping the project on track. Tracking/monitoring progress toward meeting objectives, maintaining budget, evaluating the cause of deviations from the plan, evaluating and correcting problems. Key controlling duties include defining project baselines, tracking progress, reporting status, and conducting qualita