Job Description

Project Manager:

• Defining, planning, and delivering business, operational, and technology projects and deliverables.
• Ensuring end results are of the highest quality with clearly defined scope and quantifiable business benefits.
• Directly managing all aspects of the project life cycle and overseeing all phases of a project, from initiation to closure.
• Rigorously managing scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, scope, and cost constraints.
• Defining and tracking project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on overall status and progress.
• Interfacing with both external and internal stakeholders in a manner that promotes a positive and cooperative approach for achieving business objectives.
• Anticipating and mitigating project risks.
• Tailoring processes to meet project needs.
• Managing change requests to best deliver business value.
• Managing meeting preparation, facilitation, decisions, and follow-up actions.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree, preferable in Business or Technical discipline.
• Strong project management and planning experience, with demonstrated ability to drive projects to successful completion.
• 7+ years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, with an emphasis on software development, applications, and/or technical environments.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills with solid ability to identify stakeholders, assess their needs and manage their expectations through effective communication.
• Proven ability to mobilize/motivate teams, set direction, resolve conflicts, and hold team members accountable for assigned deliverables.
• Solid experience and working knowledge of Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks.
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management tools such as MS Project, TFS, Trello, and iterative development methodologies.
• Ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• Sound business and technical acumen.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision, both written and verbally.
• CSM and/or PMP certification is a plus.

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