Summary: The Data Protection Project Manager in Cybersecurity is responsible for leading and managing data protection enhancement initiatives within the Threat Defense team. This role involves ensuring project delivery aligns with scope, quality, time, and cost constraints while adapting to dynamic changes. The position requires regular interaction with stakeholders and oversight of project risks and interdependencies. The manager will also provide subject matter expertise in project management tools and methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and direction to project team members throughout the project life cycle, ensuring deliverables are met per cost, schedule and scope commitments, proactively handling escalations as necessary to ensure project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives.
• Continuously and proactively evaluate projects for risks and issues as well as cross-project / cross-program interdependencies.
• Provide leadership to determine effective mitigation plans, while coordinating escalations and following up as necessary.
• Maintain regular interactions with project stakeholders to inform, alert, negotiate and drive decision making required for a successful project outcome.
• This includes providing regular status reports in various formats and forums ensuring full transparency of project status and health.
• Analyze project proposals to determine time frame, funding limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
• This includes identifying and scheduling project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
• Control project costs against project budget, maintaining an accurate forecast and regularly reporting variance against budget to drive consistent, transparent, and accurate portfolio forecasts.
• Serve as primary interface and intake for Threat Defense projects with other internal and external project managers and stakeholders.
• Provide subject matter expertise in Atlassian products, specifically Jira and Confluence, coach and mentor team on daily use in managing project work.
• Adhere to Solventum Enterprise IT PMO standard methodologies, processes and tools, develop and maintain project documentation, work plans and project deliverables.

Key Skills:

• 5-8 years Project Management experience in a large multi-unit organization required.
• Program management experience required.
• Strong background and experience in data protection space to include CASB and DLP focused projects.
• Advanced project management skills in complex IT and business environments, including ability to coordinate multiple teams in various locations and time zones.
• Deep project management experience managing large-scale, global implementations.
• Must possess extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of Project Management methodologies and tools, Agile/Scrum experience.
• Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to develop and communicate the project objectives, inspire and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with the business strategy.
• A high degree of political sensitivity, astuteness and the ability to use the informal power structure of the organization to achieve program success and overcome obstacles.
• A high level of empathy and the ability to vary styles of interaction to match the needs of a variety of temperaments and personalities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain project goals and objectives to the business, as well as technical leadership.
• Strong business acumen, including industry- and domain-specific knowledge of the organization and its business units. Familiarity with industry trends and innovation.
• Influencing and negotiation experience and skills in an environment with high competition for resources.
• Excellent analytical, strategic planning and execution skills.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Business Administration, Engineering or a related field.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT