Project/Program Manager IT 3

Chicago, IL

$55–$63 Per Hour
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Job Description

Job Title: Agile Project/Program Manager IT 3
Location: Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Peoria, IL
Job Type: W2 Contract
Expected hours per week: 40 hours per week
Schedule: Hybrid
Pay Range: $55-63 per hour
Job Description:
Job Summary
Agile Project Manager for Dealer ERP program teams
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

This role serves as a hybrid Project Manager supporting delivery teams across the Dealer ERP transformation program.
The individual will facilitate Agile ceremonies, drive work decomposition, backlog refinement and prioritization in Azure DevOps, manage dependencies and milestones, coordinate stakeholder communications, and help ensure delivery commitments are met.
The role is critical to maintaining alignment across teams, improving delivery predictability, and providing transparency into program progress, risks, and outcomes.
Enable delivery across complex, enterprise-scale workstreams including release planning, readiness, coordination, and execution activities.
Your contribution will include driving transparency through dashboards, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, and supporting continuous improvement to deliver high-quality ERP capabilities on time and within scope.

Typical task breakdown:

Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and technical teams to decompose and prioritize work in Azure DevOps, ensuring a healthy, execution-ready backlog aligned to delivery commitments.
Ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies are clearly defined and understood.
Remove impediments, resolve blockers, and escalate risks and issues as needed.
Coordinate execution across multiple teams and workstreams to drive alignment and delivery predictability.
Facilitate cross-team dependency identification, management, and resolution.
Support Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint planning, and release planning activities.
Manage and track project milestones, delivery commitments, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
Coordinate release readiness activities, deployment planning, and execution support across teams.
Develop and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards, metrics, and reporting to provide visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
Prepare and communicate delivery status, milestones, risks, and key decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
Foster collaboration, accountability, and effective communication across business, product, engineering, and vendor teams.
Drive adherence to Agile standards, delivery best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure successful delivery of ERP capabilities.

Education & Experience Required:

No degree, they must have 8+ years exp as a PM
Degree ( preferred), they must have 5+ years exp as PM

Required Technical Skills

Azure DevOps expertise, including backlog management, work item decomposition, sprint planning, tracking, dashboards, and reporting
Strong Agile and Scrum knowledge with experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and coaching teams. SAFe experience a plus.
Project and program management experience, including milestone tracking, dependency management, RAID management, and stakeholder communications
Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and managing delivery against commitments
Technical understanding of the software product development lifecycle and digital product delivery practices
Proficiency with Microsoft collaboration tools, including Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365
Miro experience (nice to have)

Soft Skills

Excellent communication
Strong facilitation and meeting leadership skills
Relationship building and stakeholder management
Cross-functional collaboration
Servant leadership mindset
Conflict resolution and negotiation
Organizational and prioritization skills
Critical thinking and problem solving
Ability to build alignment and gain buy-in
Results oriented and outcome driven

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Numbers & Facts

Location	Chicago, IL
Salary	$55–$63 Per Hour

Skills

Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Backlog Prioritizationunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Conflict Resolutionunmatched
Continuous Improvementunmatched
Cross-Functionalunmatched
Delivery Managementunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
Establish Prioritiesunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Maintain Complianceunmatched
Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)unmatched
Metricsunmatched
Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
Microsoft SharePointunmatched
Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
Negotiation Skillsunmatched
Organizational Skillsunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Product Developmentunmatched
Product Engineeringunmatched
Product Lifecycleunmatched
Project Trackingunmatched
Project/Program Managementunmatched
RAID Storageunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
ScrumMasterunmatched
Servant leadershipunmatched
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
Sprint Planningunmatched
Sprint Retrospectiveunmatched
Standup Meetingsunmatched
Time Managementunmatched

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