Project Manager

Summary

Serve as the IT Department's key link with business clients/product owners and development teams on key projects utilizing agile, waterfall or hybrid project management methodologies. Ensures cross-functional project is successful by providing client support and ensures business objectives are being met while managing the project scope, duration and spend.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate the definition of project scope, level of effort, strategic alignment, stakeholders and business value
• Engage with the business and technology leads
• Facilitate project planning, development of user stories and estimates, sprint planning
• Facilitate and assist with business analysis and project design
• Establish project priorities, manage resources, budgets, timelines, deliverables, risks, issues, and all other project management functions
• Engage all project stakeholders at appropriate stages in each project as to ensure that project work is moving toward useful outcomes
• Provide meaningful progress and feedback reporting that will allow project stakeholders to make course corrections
• Assist with vendor resource management
• Foster an environment of successful delivery and continuous improvement
• Manage the scrum process with the coordination of the scrum team in agile methodology
• Remove impediments faced by the scrum/project team
• Help product owners to keep the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint
• Facilitate group sessions such as retrospectives, backlog grooming, sprint planning and stand-ups
• Identify all affected stakeholders for a project
• Facilitate and/or participate in the analysis of client business processes and functional requirements and in the preparation of appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

• Experience in complex IT projects
• Understanding of the SDLC, PMP, Agile and Scrum Methodologies
• Own the development of project plans using the associated project planning tools, which include work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths, detailed tasks, and deliverables
• Provide status on project milestones, alerting client/ project manager of any potential delays
• Assist with the design and implementation of training programs for clients of new and enhanced application
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams
• Ability to be flexible, follow tight deadlines, organize and prioritize work
• Strong team building and collaboration skills
• Strong track record as a relationship builder with effective negotiation skills and proven interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to drive teams to resolve issues and deliver successfully

Education/Experience Requirements

• PM in related field required and 7-10 years relevant work experience.
• Scrum Certification (Desired)
• PMP Certification (Desired)
• Experience in managing cross-functional and remote teams.
• Experience with MS Project.
• Experience with JIRA.
• Experience with Visio.