IT Manager - Strategic Programs (Infrastructure and Cybersecurity)
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The IT Project Manager for Infrastructure and Cybersecurity oversees the planning, execution, and completion of projects related to cybersecurity and IT infrastructure. Responsibilities include coordinating with cross-functional teams, ensuring adherence to security protocols, managing project timelines, assessing, and mitigating risks, and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve project goals. Additionally, this role involves staying updated on cybersecurity trends, implementing industry best practices, and optimizing IT infrastructure to enhance overall security measures. Strong communication and leadership skills are essential for effective project management in this dynamic and critical domain.
The role is accountable for development and delivery of comprehensive project plans, program deliverables, including weekly / monthly program updates, KDDs, budget review readiness and management of RAID Logs for cybersecurity and infrastructure initiatives.
A Day in the Life
The job responsibilities for an IT Project Manager in Cybersecurity and Infrastructure typically include:
· Project Planning: Develop comprehensive project plans outlining tasks, timelines, and resource requirements for cybersecurity and infrastructure initiatives. Define the project scope, goals, and objectives, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy. Ensure gate review readiness and facilitate reviews.
· Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with various stakeholders, including leadership, IT teams, security experts, and business units, external vendors, to define project requirements and expectations.
· Risk Management: Identify potential risks and issues in cybersecurity and infrastructure projects and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project execution.
· Team Coordination: Lead cross-functional teams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration among team members working on different aspects of cybersecurity and infrastructure projects.
· Budget Oversight: Manage project budgets, monitor expenditures, and ensure cost-effectiveness in implementing cybersecurity measures and infrastructure enhancements.
· Timeline Management: Monitor project timelines, identify potential delays, and implement strategies to keep projects on schedule.
· Implementation Oversight: Supervise the implementation of cybersecurity solutions and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring they meet security requirements and organizational objectives.
· Documentation: Maintain accurate project documentation, including project plans, progress reports, and post-implementation reviews.
· Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency in cybersecurity and infrastructure management.
· Communication: Provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on project progress, challenges, and outcomes.
· Customer Satisfaction: Continuously improves stakeholder satisfaction for the Strategic PMO services.
Work closely with all stakeholders to understand the business point-of-view, identify existing processes, customers, and other relevant stakeholders to negotiate and gain cooperation on divergent objectives.
· Processes & Standards: Contributes to and cultivates a quality culture which promotes delivery excellence, development of templates & tools, process excellence, regulatory compliance, and optimized execution.
- 15+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 7+ years of experience with an advanced degree in program/project management, with a focus on software development and deployment
- 8+ years of leadership experience, including strategic thinking, decision-making, and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
- Working and practical knowledge of Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) methodologies, tools (Planview
7+ years of managerial experience, which includes goal settings and performance management. - Excellent communication skills
- Think out of the box
- Creating an inspiring and diverse team environment with an open communication culture, setting clear team goals with ownership and accountability on deliverables
- Building high performance, motivated and innovative team culture by leading with empathy
Technical Skills Desired:
- Ideally PMP Certified
- Knowledge/Experience in leading projects in validated environments
- Experienced in leading multi-function cross-team collaboration between IT and Business
- Experience in managing program timelines, risks, status, escalations in timely manner
- Understand and work within Medtronic processes and tools
- Experience with Project management tools like Planview, Azure DevOps
- Strong knowledge of MS Projects, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Office Suite of tools
- Experience managing Project Costing, Budget Forecasting, Resource Management
Nice to Have
- Medtronic IT experience
- IT experience within Global Operations & Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity
- Understanding of threat landscape, accelerate threat detection, quantify risks, and improve cyber resilience.
- Establishing a standard framework for Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning.
- Experience in change management, as it relates to a culture and mindset of a complex organization including capabilities building, process design, ownership, and implementation.
- Ability to work with a highly matrixed organization
Exceptional influencing skills
About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
