Motorola Solutions, Inc.

IT Project Manager - Mergers & Acquisitions

Posted on: 20 Mar 2021

Chicago, IL

Job Description

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Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we create technologies our customers refer to as their lifeline. Our technology platforms in communications, software, video and services help our customers work safely and more efficiently. Whether its helping firefighters see through smoke, enabling police officers to see around street corners, or reliably keeping the lights on in homes and businesses around the world, our work supports those who put their lives on the line to keep us safe. Bring your passion, potential and talents to Motorola Solutions, and help us usher in a new era in public safety and security.

Department Overview

Our IT organization has a critical role in driving extraordinary business results. Through a strong partnership with other areas of our business, we bring innovative thinking to every conversation and deliver with integrity. Were looking for people who bring great ideas and who make our partners ideas better. Intellectually curious advisors (not order takers) who focus on outcomes to creatively solve business problems. People who not only embrace change, but who accelerate it.

Job Description

Introduction

* Motorola Solutions is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager for IT Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture projects. The projects are spread across multiple acquisitions and facilities/sites globally. Projects are cross functional; they require collaboration with sites IT contacts, IT Security team, HR, Desktop and Service desk. Each integration is unique, typical activities include, but are not limited to: Day 1 integration activities, Desktop and Infrastructure Integration, migrating PC to Motorola Solutions Active Directory domains, deploying common ITIL processes to acquired IT teams, migrating servers/application to cloud & Motorola network, ensuring compliance to IT security standards. The project manager may be assigned other projects such as M&A ERP integration, CRM integration, Telecom Integration, IT Divestiture or other IT projects as needed.

* This role includes overall project management, communications, roadmap and schedule development and maintenance, etc. The PM is expected to facilitate the teams daily work and remove any obstacles or impediments faced by the team.

Role & Duties:

* Ensure overall successful project delivery (on-time, on-budget, high quality, meeting business outcomes)

* Head projects with overall responsibility for successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, status reporting, and closure

* Drive activities to achieve measurable outcomes by managing schedule, resource, scope, deliverables, budget, risk, issues, dependency, vendor relationship, and communications

* Collaborate with project and program leads to create overarching business cases, project charters, communication plans, delivery timelines, detailed schedules, and resources required

* Provides timely updates to the IT M&A leads, functional leads, IT PMO, and key stakeholders by producing regular status reports and steering governance updates

* Facilitate the teams daily work including all scheduled meetings

* Create a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact closely

* Remove the obstacles or impediments faced by the team in its work

* Mentor the team members to adopt truly Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management, and empowerment

Expected Skills:

* Project management skills: create and execute project plans, proactively manage risks/issues, maintain compliance with project management processes, an eye for detail, independently maintain project documentation, drive follow-up on open actions, etc.

* Excellent oral and written communication skills: Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation. Ability to drive productive conversations and team meetings. Active listening skills.

* Excellent People skills: a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflict, be able to work with cross-functional teams

* Very strong team player, able to foster teamwork, collaboration and a positive working environment to the project team.

* Analytical skills: ability to perceive and investigate problems, develop alternatives and recommend sound actions

* Strong aptitude to learn and self-motivated

* Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, and rapidly changing environment

* High degree of professionalism and integrity

* Recognize and deal appropriately with confidential and sensitive information

Additional preferred certification and experience:

* Experience in IT Infrastructure or IT M&A projects

* Scrum Master certification

* Scrum Master experience

* Experience with Agile tool sets Jira, Confluence, etc

* Knowledge of ITIL

* Knowledge of Change Management to ensure adoption of new processes

* Proficiency in basic Google Applications (Sheets, Docs, Slides)

Basic Requirements

* Bachelor's degree

* PMP certification

* 7+ years in IT project management

* Proven experience in using project management tools such as Smartsheets, Microsoft Project

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Chicago, IL

Since 1928, Motorola has been committed to innovation in communications and electronics. Our company has achieved many milestones in its 85-plus year history. We pioneered mobile communications in the 1930s with car radios and public safety networks. We made the equipment that carried the first words from the moon in 1969. In 1983 we led the communications revolution with the first commercial handheld cellular phone and system. Today, as a global industry leader, excellence in innovation continues to shape our future. 

Motorola Solutions connects people through technology. Public safety and commercial customers around the world turn to Motorola Solutions innovations when they want highly connected teams that have the information they need throughout their workdays and in the moments that matter most to them.

Our customers rely on us for the expertise, services and solutions we provide, trusting our years of invention and innovation experience. By partnering with customers and observing how our products can help in their specific industries, we are able to enhance our customers’ experience every day. 

Motorola Solutions serves more than 100,000 public safety and commercial customers in more than 100 countries. Our wide-ranging product portfolio has the tools you need to get the job done in any business. As an industry leader, we design and develop devices including radios and the infrastructure that supports them.

Our mission-critical design philosophy led to our new High Velocity Human Factors investigation, an area of cognitive research that helps us develop products for first responders by working with them in crisis situations to study their communication needs. We take what we learn in the field and bring it back to the lab to create products that will function under extreme conditions and networks that will reliably support those products. 

Working with our global channel partner community, Motorola Solutions reaches an extensive customer base, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Our focus is on developing integrated end-to-end solutions that deliver a clear return on investment, and our products empower individuals through seamless connectivity.

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