IT Senior Project Manager

Overview

Johnstone Supply, North America's leading wholesale distributor of HVACR equipment, parts, and supplies, has a great opportunity to join our team. Over the last seven decades, Johnstone has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry leader with over 470 distributor branches and 6 distribution centers throughout North America. We work with some of the largest companies in the world, including Daikin/Goodman, Bosch, Copeland, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, and Fujitsu, to provide contractors with world-class products, technical expertise, and quality service.

Now is the best time to join Johnstone Supply
. Relationship-building is the key to our success, and it shows in everything we do. The Power of Johnstone is everyone who works with us. Our customers, our partners, and our people.
Johnstone is growing, and so can you.

This position manages large-scale implementations and complex projects within the IT department in support of the Digital Strategy and the company’s Strategic Program Roadmap.

• Plans, organizes, and directs large-scale projects and complex or strategic program implementations to meet business requirements by: oversight, coordination and planning of approved and assigned projects identified by IT Leadership and works closely with key leadership across the business functions and vendor partners to provide appropriate communication and ensure delivery of assigned projects.
• Defines and facilitates progam planning across multiple cross functional business and technology teams to bring the program end points along multiple work streams into a single timeline to meet business and customer needs
• Manages and oversees facilitating requirements processes, defining project scope and goals; developing project plans, timelines, resource requirements, risk mitigation plans, and budgets; coordinating project activities, and stakeholder communications, and change enablement activities; and monitoring project status in order to upscale when needed.
• Manages and oversees project activities and tasks across internal and external resources, including outsourced third parties, to ensure delivery of project objectives on time and within budget.
• Manages the project budget in terms of human and capital/operating resources needed to successfully complete.
• Utilizes Johnstone’s Project Management methodology approach to managing and monitoring project progress, with internally supported tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, , Jira Software, Service Desk, Confluence).
• Identifies and Manages project risks/escalation, issues/problems, and activity progress to ensure project goals (e.g., deadline, scope and quality) are achieved. Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed.
• Ensures stakeholders (Stores, Suppliers, internal staff, etc.) are provided with the most current, up-to-date information on project status and issues that affect them.
• Provides regular reporting processes to monitor project results and provide status updates to Project Sponsors, IT Portfolio Management and the E-PMO.
• Facilitates discussions with appropriate leadership to develop measurable success criteria for assigned projects
• Leads retrospective (lessons learned) activities post project completion, for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Assists in the improvement of business processes by demonstrating Johnstone’s Lean Program approach to identify improvement areas, defining and managing process improvement projects.
• Ensures project, program, and department processes are documented, communicated and consistently adhered to.
• Performs special projects as assigned by supervisor.

The Sr. Project Manager will be involved in leading complex implementations and large-scale projects including:

• Multi-year and complex…