Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan organize and manage one or more small to medium sized projects to meet defined requirements or business objectives.
• Work on multiple Application Development projects and support senior level project managers on larger projects.
• Create project plans, defines scope, creates budgets and timelines, identifies staffing and other resource needs, prioritizes tasks, creates roadmaps, defines strategy, identifies and documents technical and business needs, develops risk mitigation plans and ensures project objectives meet the defined business requirements.
• Execute project plans by overseeing staff assignments, facilitating meetings with the project team and end users to define and document technical solutions, engages external vendors as necessary and executes operational readiness activities
• Monitor and track the progress of project deliverables across multiple Agile teams and business units and focuses on regular and timely delivery of value to ensure that established cost, time and quality goals are met.
• Communicate project status with key stakeholders as needed, leads project team meetings as needed to assess project progress, prepares and distributes ongoing status updates, escalates issues and risk as appropriate and manages and documents change.
• Coordinate project activities and process definition with the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office and other departments as necessary to improve project team performance and ensure documentation requirements and formats adhere to corporate standards
• Provide assistance, consultation and mentoring to other project teams and Enterprise Portfolio Management Office staff.
• Utilize PPM and Agile tools to track and measure project and team progress, productivity and individual performance.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors Degree in Business or Computer Science
• 3-5 work experience in project management
• Prior experience in Systems Development or Support
• Basic knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practice
• Advanced leadership skills
• Ability to analyze and resolve complex problems
• Use independent judgment and communicate effectively with internal and external contacts

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Certification or advance degree in project management - such as Masters Certificate in Project Management or PMP/PMI-ACP-certification
• Experience working within a SAFe environment

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