Descrizione

Xylem’s Information Technology organization is seeking an accomplished IT Project Manager with experience deploying global Source to Pay systems. This position will work in close partnership with Xylem’s Finance and IT program managers and leadership. Knowledge of the Source to Pay lifecycle and the Coupa product suite is preferred. This is a multi-year program assignment located in Xylem’s Vadodara, India office.

The IT project manager plans, executes, and delivers IT projects on time, in budget, and within scope in accordance with business priorities. Throughout the lifecycle of each project, responsibilities include creating the detailed project plan, setting milestones, following a stage-gate process, managing the project team activities, tracking and mitigating project issues and risks, and communicating project status.

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:

• Direct complex IT projects that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related project management artifacts
• Manage financial forecasts and provide on-going budget variance and scope change requests, and participate in the budget-resolution process
• Foster partnerships with program / project stakeholders and sponsors to define success criteria and metrics
• Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of project
• Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
• Continually update relevant stakeholders of project status and publish accurate and professional project status reports
• Serve as a subject matter expert to regularly brief key stakeholders on various aspects of assigned initiatives
• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Ensure realistic and reliable resource plans across the project, focusing on the availability and commitment of appropriately skilled resources
• Identify, clarify, track and manage requirements, risks/opportunities, decisions and issues, remove barriers, resolve project issues and escalate as appropriate
• Partner with program management for contributions to overall reporting and status

Key Competencies:

• Analytical decision making

• Risk & opportunity management

• Business focused delivery

• Cross-boundary collaboration

• Masterful communication

• Inspiring accountability

• Building detailed integrated project plans

• Leading teams in a matrixed environment

• Project management proficiency

• Continuous improvement mindset

Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:

Required Qualifications:

• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
• Strong planning, organizational, and leadership skills, including the ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages tactfully, and execute with limited information and ambiguity
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate at all levels in the organization with clarity and precision
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to navigate in a highly matrixed organization effectively
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to make effective presentations, and proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders
• Focused and versatile team player who is comfortable under pressure, ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability
• Sound business and technical acumen – Finance, Source to Pay
• Cultural adaptability
• Virtual and remote team leadership capability
• Flexibility and responsiveness to input
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies required
• Experience managing technology projects required
• Exceptional PowerPoint skills, including functionality and design
• Expert with MS Project for project planning, detailed scheduling, tracking of dependencies and critical path
• Proficient with MS Teams
• Self-motivated, quick and assertive
• Extremely detailed oriented and organized
• Exceptional time management and multi-tasking skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced English language proficiency
• Ability to work well under pressure and comfortable with change and complexity
• PMP certification (Project Management Institute)
• Bachelor’s degree
• Flexible working hours to accommodate project needs with global stakeholders and team members
• 10+ years of project management experience establishing and delivering IT projects, especially large company, global deployments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Finance background preferred
• Experience leading IT Source to Pay implementations preferable
• Agile certification
• Prosci certified change practitioner preferred

Additional Information:

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here 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.

• Work is generally conducted in an office environment in Vadodara, India
• Regularly required to sit, stand, walk and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to communicate orally.
• May require travel to project sites.
• Employee must comply with all local regulations and published Company work rules as well as written instructions.

Disclaimer: The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position.  It shall not be viewed as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.  Xylem reserves the right to modify this job description or require that other tasks be performed as required by the business or job circumstances.