The primary purpose of this role involves traditional project management responsibilities for large scale Master Data Management (MDM) projects, specifically supporting the Enterprise Product Hierarchy (EPH) initiative, with global, enterprise-wide impact. This individual will lead joint IT Operations' and Business Systems' projects to successful completion as stand-alone projects or within global programs. The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring that project objectives are achieved on time and on budget, while meeting quality goals of the program. You will be expected to be in office at our Corporate HQ's in Columbus Ohio (Westerville). RESPONSIBILITIES * Responsible for leading, planning, execution, and completion of large scale complex projects. Monitors and controls project activities from initiation through delivery. * Accountable for Global MDM Project Management planning and execution tasks, including, but not limited to, scope, scheduling, budgeting, costing, resource, risk and issue management. * Continuously assesses project health, anticipating risk and developing effective mitigation plans that maintain committed project plan. * Develops and manages project recovery plans when necessary, minimizing impact to project commitments. * Collects and analyzes data required to create effective written status reports. Creates and delivers effective written and verbal project status reports. * Proactively engages stakeholders, providing timely, relevant, and transparent project status. * Identifies task dependencies as they arise and takes action to ensure that project schedule is unimpeded by dependencies. * Facilitate cross-functional planning and project execution, * Monitor team schedules and ensure coordination of activities on the critical path. * Develop reporting and tracking programs to assure the project is on target for scope, schedule, and cost. * Identify key issues and drive decisions to ensure that the project does not slip. * Identify key risks and develop contingency plans. * Work with management of different operating functions to identify and obtain required resources to adequately staff project. * Interacts with all levels of management, team members, and stakeholders. Builds cohesive teams by partnering and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure efficient success of projects. Collaboratively engages and leads diverse teams and team members. * Directs activities of project team members and balances workload of the team, ensuring that both individual and group objectives are met. * Contributes to development of processes when they are needed by coordinating collaboration of design and execution with applicable Stakeholders. * Prepares and performs stage gate reviews and ensure compliance with the ITPLC standards and processes QUALIFICATIONS * Bachelor's in Computer Science, Project Management, Information Technology or related degree. Associates degree or military certification with two years directly related experience, or of 5 years directly related experience will be held equivalent to educational requirement. * At least 7 years' project management experience. * Experience managing multiple large-scale IT Software Development projects, specifically master data or data management from inception to closure. * Strong Project Planning & Organizational Skills. * Strong knowledge of Software Development Lifecyle process. * Good understanding of how to look for gaps in business functional requirements as it relates to Project deliverables and ability to manage risks and key decisions. * Excellent presentation skills; can adjust presentation to the audience level. Comfortable presenting to small and largeApply here: https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjUwMjgyLjEwNTA4QHZlcnRpdmNvbXAuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t