IT Project Manager Bristol, England
Job description
About ForgeRock:
In today's highly connected digital world, understanding, managing and securing the identity of individuals and things is essential to safety and success of both businesses and their customers. Billions of people connect from anywhere, use a wide variety of devices and expect a seamless yet secure experience.
The ForgeRock mission is to provide the most simple and comprehensive Identity and Access Management Platform to help our customers deepen their relationships with their consumers and improve the productivity and connectivity of their employees and partners. Our identity solution enables great digital experiences and is embedded with a rich set of security, privacy and consent features. We deliver our platform through both cloud services and on-premises software.
Our customers are some of the biggest companies, organizations, and even countries in the world. On any given day, it's likely that the ForgeRock Identity Platform helped keep your data safe, gave you access to stuff, and supported trusted relationships between you, companies and the devices you were using.
ForgeRock is headquartered in San Francisco, but we are a global company with offices in the following cities: Vancouver, WA; Austin, TX; Bristol, UK; Grenoble FR; Oslo NO; and Singapore. Please read more about us at forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/forgerock.
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The Role:*
The IT Project manager is responsible for owning the IT Operations project portfolio. You will be working closely with team managers, project stakeholders, and executive management to manage the project lifecycle including creating and maintaining roadmaps and project plans, ensuring project delivery against milestones, reporting on progress, escalating issues, and owning the overall project management process. This function is fast paced, highly innovative with a strong growth mindset. Day to day, you will align IT/system projects with business goals, construct detailed work plans, achieve milestones, and communicate the result across our stakeholder audience.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the IT Operations project portfolio
- Create, update and maintain IT Operations project roadmaps
- Monitor and report on multiple workstreams across cross functional teams
- Work with managers to create details project plans and milestones
- Facilitate resolution of issues and blockers, and escalate when appropriate
- Deliver on multiple projects at once, and manage resources accordingly
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting of project status, issues and progress
- Report on key IT Operations metrics
- Ensures that assigned operations and activities comply with organization goals and objectives
- Coordinate cross functional resource requirements, risks and changes by optimizing scope, schedule and resources accordingly
- Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and reporting to support the IT Project Management functions
- Assist with vendor management, procurement and contract lifecycle
- Work cross functionally with other engineering teams
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Project Management experience in IT Operations or IT Infrastructure
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership
- Self starter with the ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision to meet project deadlines
- Experience with project management tools like SmartSheets or Monday.com
- PMP, CSM or Prince 2 or equivalent certification preferred
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Life at ForgeRock:*
We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We're growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that's who we want to succeed with every day.
Here are just a few of the things that make ForgeRock special:
- A company culture that empowers you to do your best work.
- Employee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone.
- Regular company and team bonding events.
- Competitive benefits and perks.
- Recognition programs that reward employees with meaningful experiences.
- Global volunteering and community initiatives
ForgeRock is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone's individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.
We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Job Type: Full-time
