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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.
Contractor can work completely remote, and there will be no travel, but will be required to work EST hours.
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)
- Use negotiation skills to balance completing work with resources needed to achieve project success
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.
Digital transformation migrating legacy capabilities to the cloud.
Familiarity with Data Governance processes and tools, Data Lake/Fabric, data ingestion pipelines, Enterprise BI & Data Science domains.
Clarity, Jira, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.
Understand business process transformation and change management practices.
Skills needed for submittals
Project Management experience- years
Scrum master experience years
Retail/Ecommerce experience- years
Marketing project experience years
Cloud Data Platform experience- years
Digital Transformation experience-years
Data Governance Project experience- years
PMP or Scrum Certified- Yes or no, which?
Required Skills : Scrum Master,Project Management
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills : Project Manager,Project Manager
Background Check : No
Drug Screen : No