Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as IT, Project Management, or Data Analytics., Proven experience in project management, particularly with enterprise data platforms and cloud migration., Strong understanding of agile methodologies and recent experience as a Scrum Master., Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to manage stakeholders effectively..

Key responsabilities:

Serve as the Project Manager/Scrum Master for the implementation of the Enterprise Data Platform.

Communicate project progress to stakeholders and negotiate adjustments to schedules and resources.

Establish effective project governance by facilitating sponsor and stakeholder groups.

Manage vendor relationships, including contract negotiations and monitoring deliverables.

Job description

Job Description
Looking for senior project manager/scrum master with marketing and data analytics experience for an initial six month contract with possible extensions or conversion to a permanent employee of our client.
Candidates should have project experience with enterprise data platforms and migrating to the cloud.

The preference is for the candidate to work a hybrid schedule spending some time onsite in southern Maine to collaborate with coworkers and some time working remotely.

We have an immediate need for an IT Sr Project Manager with a focus on Marketing and Data Analytics related domains. The primary responsibility of this role will be Project Manager / Scrum Master for implementation and build of our Enterprise Data Platform – a cloud-based data and analytics environment. The IS Sr Project Manager works under minimal supervision to plan, direct and coordinate activities of large, long-term, inter-departmental infrastructure or development project(s) to ensure goals and objectives of the project(s) are accomplished within prescribed timeframe and budgetary parameters.

This is initially a remote position with the opportunity to collaborate with the team in-person at our headquarters in southern Maine. Candidates must have recent, real-world agile project management experience. The initial contract is 6 months with the possibility of an extension based on performance.

Responsibilities:

Communication and Presentation

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

- Functions as central point for all project communications

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

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

Establishes Effective Project Governance

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

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

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

Vendor Management

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

- 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.

- Tracks and maintains vendor deliverable costs

Risk Management

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

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

Project Detail and Schedules

- Develops a project work breakdown structure

- Develops and manages a project schedule/timeline using approved Project Management tools (Clarity, Jira, Sharepoint, etc.)

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

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

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