IT Project Specialist

At a glance

Position:IT Project Specialist

Primary Location:Sao Paulo (BRA), São Paulo, Brazil

Additional Locations: Mumbai (IND) + More - Less

Schedule:Full time

Date Posted:05/08/2024

Job Number:R2051088

Position Type:Regular

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we’re passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place.

Dowhas an exciting opportunity for anITProject Specialist. This role can be located inSao Paulo, Brazil, or Mumbai, India!This role will align with Dow’s Design You Day approach and allow employees flexibility by choosing when to work remotely and when to attend on-site activities based on project work and role needs.

About you and this role

As the Project Specialist, you will lead small cross-functional project teams that deliver business process and IT solutions. This role will require an understanding of key business drivers to lead project planning and management throughout the project lifecycle including the overall delivery of the solution into a successful support model, and be accountable for budget, contingency planning, scope, issue, and risk management. Helps improve productivity, streamline business processes, help make better business decisions and begins to build solid customer relationships.

In this role, you will need to understand key business drivers for your discipline and function. You will need to be able to expand conceptual and working knowledge related to your discipline or functional area. You are expected to provide informal guidance to new team members and be able to explain complex information to others.

You are responsible for using technical experience, established practices, and personal judgment to analyze and resolve straightforward problems. Your performance impacts the quality of your work and your team’s work and requires that you work within established guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Uses expanded conceptual knowledge to begin determining the project approach and schedule, develops and reviews estimates and estimating assumptions, and creates project plan and tracking metrics throughout all phases

• With guidance, manages the overall schedule for project delivery.

• Measures and monitors progress, including phase reviews deliverable reviews, and sign-offs

• Aware of dependencies across projects in the program as well as integration with other projects

• Builds and manages relationships with suppliers and subcontractors on the project (monitor progress/adherence to schedule)

• Works with teams on quality assurance process, manages budget forecasting and cost control for the project, manages project issues, risks, and contingency planning, and escalates as required

• Ensures the project follows methodology/approach to delivering the solution and supports teams on scope change requests and schedule implications

• Performs budget, scope, issue, and risk management tasks by estimating information technology project costs and working with external service providers and processes

• Completes project performance reports

• Deliver results by utilizing various delivery frameworks including Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

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Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree discipline in Information Technology/Systems is preferred.

• 5 years of relevant experience.

• Advanced English Level

Preferred Skills

• Influential leadership

• Strong communication

• Time management and organizational skills

• Problem-solving abilities

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Benefits – What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.

• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.

• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.

• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.

• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.

• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.

• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:

• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).

• ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.

• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. ​​​​Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visitingwww.dow.com.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available onwww.dow.com.