IT PMO Project Manager 3662884 (Union City, NJ)

Be Part Of A Dynamic Team

Join a growing organization operating in the highly regulated cannabis industry, where technology, operational excellence, compliance, and innovation play an important role in supporting continued growth. The company has built vertically integrated operations across multiple U.S. markets and emphasizes quality, collaboration, employee development, and continuous improvement. Its corporate teams work across business functions to enable retail, cultivation, manufacturing, and enterprise operations while helping the organization scale effectively.

The IT Project Management Office is advancing how enterprise projects are governed, prioritized, reported, and delivered. This Project Manager will have visibility across technology and business teams while supporting initiatives spanning enterprise applications, analytics, integrations, digital platforms, process automation, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.

What's In Store For You

• Remote opportunity within approved U.S. hiring states, with candidates working primarily in Eastern or Central Time.
• Exposure to a diverse portfolio of high-visibility business and technology initiatives.
• Opportunity to work directly with leaders across IT, Retail, Operations, Marketing, Finance, HR, Compliance, and other enterprise functions.
• Play an active role in strengthening and maturing an enterprise PMO.
• Gain exposure to initiatives involving digital transformation, business intelligence, automation, data and analytics, and AI.
• Occasional travel for project workshops, stakeholder meetings, training, company events, and onsite project activities.
• Access to an organization that emphasizes employee development and provides structured career-growth and mentoring programs.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Independently manage multiple concurrent technology and enterprise projects from initiation through successful closure.
• Build and maintain project charters, schedules, work plans, stakeholder registers, communication plans, RAID logs, status reporting, and supporting project documentation.
• Coordinate project resources and dependencies across business teams, technology groups, vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
• Lead project kickoffs, planning sessions, requirements workshops, governance meetings, and steering committee discussions.
• Monitor scope, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, resource needs, and budget considerations while proactively addressing delivery challenges.
• Partner with project sponsors to establish clear objectives, measurable success criteria, and expected business outcomes.
• Translate business priorities into actionable project requirements and executable delivery plans.
• Support change-management activities including stakeholder communications, training coordination, engagement, and user adoption.
• Prepare executive-facing project updates, presentations, dashboards, and portfolio reporting.
• Contribute to project intake, prioritization, resource planning, forecasting, and portfolio management.
• Help improve PMO methodologies, governance practices, templates, reporting standards, and delivery consistency.
• Support initiatives involving enterprise applications, infrastructure modernization, integrations, data and analytics, business intelligence, e-commerce, digital experience, cybersecurity, automation, AI, and operational improvement.

Do you bring proven success in enterprise technology project delivery?

• Bring approximately 3–6 years of hands-on project management experience within technology, enterprise systems, business transformation, software implementation, analytics, or operational improvement environments.
• Demonstrate success managing several projects simultaneously while maintaining control of milestones, dependencies, risks, documentation, and stakeholder expectations.
• Understand Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies and know when different approaches make sense.
• Have experience developing project plans, RAID logs, executive status reports, presentations, governance documentation, and related PMO deliverables.
• Bring strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Be comfortable coordinating internal teams, third-party vendors, consultants, managed service providers, and business leaders.
• Possess strong facilitation, communication, organization, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Be proficient with Microsoft 365 tools including Teams, SharePoint, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Have experience with project delivery platforms such as ClickUp, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or comparable tools.
• A bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related discipline is preferred; equivalent relevant experience may also qualify.
• Experience with SDLC, enterprise SaaS implementations, ERP, HRIS, CRM, POS, finance, supply chain, analytics, or business intelligence platforms is highly valued.
• Experience delivering projects in a regulated industry is preferred.
• Vendor-led enterprise implementation experience is advantageous.
• PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or comparable project management certification is preferred.

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