Project Specialist, IT PMO - Entry Level

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Job Summary:

Monster Energy is seeking a Project Specialist to work closely with the project management office (PMO) and IT leadership. The role involves developing project charters, maintaining project information, and ensuring the success of IT initiatives through proper documentation and organization of project details.

Responsibilities:

• Work with members of the PMO and in collaboration with representatives from IT, business representatives, help implement and execute project management best practices.

• Ensure all project details are properly documented, organized, followed up on and updated in a timely manner within Monster's project management platform.

• Ensure every product related Information is maintained in a consistent and coherent fashion, aligned with PMO best practices.

• Help create templates in project management software to ensure consistent planning and tracking of deliverables, work packages, activities, issues etc. that repeat across projects.

• Maintain and update internally developed project management best practices on ongoing basic.

• Maintain the information in the project Roadmap in program and project management software.

• Support educating and guiding project teams on the use of best practice during the project management lifecycle.

• Assist in the definition of project objectives, scope, and deliverables, then update project management software with the information.

• Assist in the development of business cases, and maintenance of related information in project management software. Schedule meetings, take and publish notes, and follow up on action items timely.

• Escalate Issues and risks to management as needed to ensure awareness and drive response. Facilitate the resolution or issues and through proactive discussions with stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in the field of Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

• Between 1-3 years of experience in coordinating IT projects

• Minimum 1 year of experience in project management position

• Proficiency with Microsoft’s office desktop solutions (Excel and PowerPoint a must), SharePoint, Visio, Teams, Atlassian’s Jira, and Confluence

• Proficiency in, strong working understanding of various project management methodologies including Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Prince and/or Agile

Company:

Monster Energy is a beverage company. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Corona, California, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Monster Energy has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.