Agile Project Manager

Agile Project ManagerOutline of the Role: The Agile Project Manager is responsible for ensuring the product team delivers its commitments to our business partners. This role works lock step with our Product Management Team by diligently following the scrum framework to ensure the Scrum Capability Owner has prepared backlogs that are prioritized and groomed, the team has estimated the sprint ahead, the active sprint has strong support on any impediments, and the team is able to rely on the scrum framework to guide the cadence of the product model. The Agile Project Manager is constantly seeking for ways to improve the team to get faster, tighter, stronger and better. A continuous improvement culture will be facilitated by this role.Principal Duties and Responsibilities:Analyze, evaluate, test, and oversee implementation of new and existing processes and procedures.Examine and collect data on existing processes to uncover areas for suggesting improvements and innovation.Lead and facilitate Continuous Improvement events in our Global Product Team.Drive process consistency across the Global Product Team.Investigate and troubleshoot any problems that arise with processes, procedures, and operations.Regularly review business KPI’s and determine ways to improve their ability to maintain or approve those measures.Effectively persuade others to implement process modifications and new approaches.Conduct end-to-end process mapping insights from root cause analysis.Establish consistent Issues, Risk, and Dependency Management reporting across all findings and observations.Highlight best practices, industry standards and Agile principles where guidance is needed.Radiate information that helps with the moving parts of integrating the team, the initiatives, the systems, and the organization.Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Personal Requirements:5+ years of scrum master / project manager role and experience in supply chain/retail.Experience with retail and roll-out of new technologies, hardware and applications.Experience working in an agile development including tools like JIRA, Confluence and other project management tools.Strong communication skills, team management and ability to build relationships across cross-functional teams.Core understanding of software development.2 or more years of experience managing global teams.Demonstrated experience of instilling a continuous improvement culture.Additional Manager Comments:Proven work ethic with utmost integrity.Desire to excel and succeed.Actively live and breathe the client culture and lifestyle.Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement (goal-oriented).Entrepreneurial spirit and an egoless nature.Self-motivated, passionate, empathetic, approachable.Outgoing, energetic, upbeat and fun!Required Skills: Agile Methodology Additional Skills: Project Manager. This is a high priority requisition.