[Remote] Project Manager Scrum Master

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking an IS Sr Project Manager / Scrum Master who will work under minimal supervision to manage large, long-term projects. The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating activities to ensure project goals are met within budget and time constraints.

Responsibilities

• 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)
• 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 supporting/influencing 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
• Collaborates with multiple project teams to organize EDP releases according to the department process
• Works to create release notes that are consistent with release scope and content
• Ensure validate steps are planned and executed
• Participates to ensure communications are flowing as needed, both internally and with Product Owners
• 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
• Develops a project work breakdown structure
• Develops and manages a project schedule/timeline using approved Project Management tools (WorkOtter, 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
• Develops a project budget and track actual and forecasts weekly
• Manage project budget in Excel and Work Otter for financials and resource allocation

Skills

• Candidates must have recent, real-world agile project management experience
• 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
• Cloud Data Platforms in support of Marketing, Customer Analytics & Personalization in an omni-channel retail environment
• WorkOtter, Jira, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint
• Understand business process transformation and change management practices

Company Overview

• reputed company provides talent delivery strategies that attack critical gaps surrounding today's modern workforce. It was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.firstproinc.com/.

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