IT Project Manager

Project Manager

Position Summary

The Project Manager leads the planning, execution, and delivery of projects that support business goals and organizational priorities. This role is responsible for managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring that project outcomes are delivered with quality and aligned to agreed objectives.

Key Responsibilities

The Project Manager oversees projects from initiation through closure. This includes defining project scope, building project plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking progress, and maintaining clear governance throughout the project lifecycle.

The role works closely with sponsors, business stakeholders, team members, vendors, and leadership to align priorities, remove obstacles, and support timely decision-making. The Project Manager ensures that deliverables, dependencies, risks, and success criteria remain visible and actively managed.

This position is responsible for maintaining project documentation and reporting, facilitating meetings, managing changes, and driving accountability across the team. The role also supports issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement throughout delivery.

Primary Duties

• Lead projects from kickoff through completion, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and budget expectations.
• Develop and maintain core project artifacts such as the project charter, schedule, status reports, risk and issue logs, action trackers, and meeting documentation.
• Manage cross-functional teams composed of internal staff, consultants, vendors, and third-party implementation partners. The role coordinates accountability across technical, functional, and business workstreams.
• Monitor project performance against scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk targets, and escalate concerns when needed.
• Manage stakeholder communications, including project updates, governance meetings, and executive reporting.
• Facilitate planning sessions, status meetings, decision reviews, and lessons learned discussions.
• Support change control by assessing impacts, documenting requests, and coordinating approvals.
• Identify risks and issues early, drive mitigation planning, and track actions through resolution.
• Ensure successful handoff, transition, and closure activities at the end of the project.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, project management, finance, or a related field.
• 5-7+ years of experience in IT Project Management with experience managing ERP, manufacturing projects and new product development projects.
• Experience working with senior leaders to support strategic planning, funding decisions, and cross-functional prioritization.
• Familiarity with project, program, and product delivery methods across waterfall, agile, and hybrid environments.
• Strong leadership, organizational, communication, and problem solving skills.
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, and decision-support skills.
• Certification in PMP, PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent
• Experience with enterprise PPM tools.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust, inspire collaboration, and navigate cultural and geographic diversity
• Experience navigating a global organization
• This role is in the office 5 days per week with the potential for domestic/international travel upwards of 25% annually

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

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The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPLES: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• High-Performance Culture
• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertiv.com