IT Security Project Manager

TSR is a premier National U.S. Staffing company with over 50 years of staffing excellence.Our client, a Global Professional Service Firm, is hiring a:IT Security Project Manager Remote - work Eastern Time ZoneLong Term ContractA strong PM with experience working in Info Sec Big plus- someone has experience with IAMInformation Security prevents, detects, responds to, and mitigates potential cyber-risk threats, protecting the firm and client data, and our information management systems. Thereby reducing overall risk to both the firm's infrastructure and data.The opportunityProject manager is responsible for delivering Information Security IT projects to schedule, budget and quality. The role requires mastery of the technical knowledge of project management inter-related process stages i.e. initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and close, and the supporting processes e.g. scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource, communication, stakeholder management. Proficiency in related processes such as portfolio management, program management, methods and tools and quality assurance is also required. Senior project manager must have excellent stakeholder relationship management skills to successfully lead and manage the project team and project stakeholders, and have expertise recognized and requested by customers.Your key responsibilitiesProject Planning and Control

• Maintain very close visibility into and active control over projects to agreed schedule, budget and scope
• Conduct stage gates at least at the end of plan and before deployment to production

• Demonstrate control over the project resource plan
• Ensure actual work matches the planned effort
• Actively maintain resource requests and allocations

• Maintain accurate project financial forecasts

• Deliverable Quality
• Ensure project deliverables are fit for purpose
• Risk and Issue Management
• Proactively recognize risks or issues, and do not wait to respond to them
• Regularly maintain RAID logs so they can be referenced by any stakeholder
• Ensure projects are 100% compliant with the firm and Information Security delivery standards

• Experience specifically managing IT Security projects with personal accountability for delivering to time and cost for large, complex projects up to $5m in value and as many as 12 to 18 months in duration
• Mastery of project management methodology, tools and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
• Track record of customer focus, based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises
• IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all project phases plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
• Strong team working skills across matrixed client, supplier and globally dispersed virtual teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills must be able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing

• 10 to 15 years in a corporate IT environment
• 5 to 10 years of experience in project management

• Project management certification is highly preferred (PMI/CAPM or PMP, PRINCE2)
• Familiarity with ITIL v2 or 3 would be advantageous
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) certifications or other Information Security related a plus
• At least 5 years of delivering in aService Delivery PM role (InfoSec domain highly preferred)
• Experience in the firm's IT Infrastructure deployments
• Specific experience inInformation Security Service Delivery (and specifically IAM domain) highly preferred

• Acting with a sense of ownership and urgency
• Assuming personal accountability for success
• Always looking for solutions to getting things done, rather than reasons why they can't be done

• Excellent interpersonal, client service, communication, organizational, and project management skills
• Ability to work effectively with clients and team members
• Competent at working from diverse cultural backgrounds, considering all points of view before reaching a decision
• Adept at managing multiple, complex projects concurrently
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• Demonstrated analytical abilities

• A minimum of 5-8 years experience in a medium-to-large environment, performing business analysis, business development, and project managementDirect experience in medium-to-complex management activities, such as business development, and application development and deployment
• Experience in business analysis, business development or relationship management preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience, Project management training, including practical application
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred