Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Communication and Presentation

o   Keeps stakeholders, including management, informed of progress to goal; negotiate adjustments to the schedule and resources to ensure overall quality of completed project

o   Functions as central point for all project communications

o   Leverages most effective means of communication based on situation/urgency

o   Develops and delivers presentation content to drive understanding and alignment across Team and Project Sponsors (Governance structure)

Establishes and Maintains Effective Project Governance

o   Identifies and facilitates acquiring a Sponsor role that is executed at the appropriate level of the organization

o   Identifies and facilitates acquiring a Steering Group that is supporting/influencing the Sponsor while representing cross-functional perspective with common project goals

o   Identifies and facilitates acquiring a Stakeholder Group that represents and can influence project direction and deliverables

Vendor Management

o   Collaborates to develop a positive relationship between client and vendor(s) to ensure successful project deliverables.

o   Negotiates contracts and Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors and monitors project deliverables. Transitions vendor contracts to internal support owner to ensure understanding and compliance with service level agreements.

o   Tracks and maintains vendor deliverable costs

Risk Management

o   Identifies & analyzes project risks to determine highest potential risk exposure that should be proactively managed

o   Identifies & focuses resolution of issues and risks using appropriate levels of escalation considering impact to scope, schedule, budget or quality.

Project Detail and Schedules

o   Develops a project work breakdown structure

o   Develops and manages a project schedule/timeline using approved Project Management tools (Prism PPM, Jira, SharePoint, etc.)

o   Develops, monitors, and manages the project staffing plan and resource allocations approved by resource managers

o   Determines Resource Assignments with task estimates (ETC's)

o   Use negotiation skills to balance completing work with resources needed to achieve project success

Project Financials

o   Develops a project budget and track actual and forecasts weekly

o   Manage project budget in Excel and Work Otter for financials and resource allocation

o   Provide weekly budget spend / status reporting

Skills & Qualifications:

·        Strong hands-on project management & Scrum Master skills - at least 5 years of experience managing complex IT efforts.

·        Management of large teams with members working in multiple locations.

·        Experience structuring work into various workstreams within a large project and managing multiple IT projects concurrently.

·        Strong applied use of PM & Scrum tools/techniques (planning, risk management, budgeting, cost control, assessment, software/SaaS acquisition/RFP, develop & management of Jira board, Scrum ceremonies, etc.).

·        Experience with vendor contracts and vendor management.

·        Excellent communication skills (oral and written), English-language skills, facilitation skills, etc. and ability to represent work at all levels of the organization (up to Executive levels).

·        Excellent people skills – developing strong relationships, building a trusting team environment, and ability to listen & translate into actionable plans.

Experience with the following is desired, but not mandatory:

·        Cloud Data Platforms in support of Marketing, Customer Analytics & Personalization in an omni-channel retail environment.

·        Prism PPM, Jira, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.

·        Understand business process transformation and change management practices