• Direct and manage project development timelines from beginning to end, under minimal supervision

• Lead effective planning and estimation activities for predictable delivery of critical outcomes

• Develop and maintain program and release plans, adapting to changing requirements and priorities while ensuring alignment with business objectives

• Regularly assess progress, monitor and identify risks and issues, and proactively address issues and risks to keep projects on track

• Prioritize initiatives and deliverables based on strategic goals, resource availability, and potential business impact

• Coordinate all activities within the project team to ensure that project tasks are completed on time, including but not limited to scheduling and facilitating project-related team meetings, communicating status updates, delivering weekly status reports, communicating with the development team, assuring quality assurance through deployment success

• Manage customer expectations by effectively communicating project expectations between all parties in a timely and clear fashion

• Maintain required project documentation, per PMO processes

• Facilitate the adoption of agile methodologies within the project and client teams, promoting iterative development, continuous improvement, and adaptability

• Work closely with team leads to plan iterations, define user stories, and prioritize tasks for efficient project execution

• Remove obstacles and ensure the teams have the necessary resources and support to deliver high-quality results

• Encourage a test-and-learn culture that emphasizes data-driven decision-making and helps identifyoptimal solutions faster

• Lead development of measurable program objectives aligned directly with company goals

• Define relevant KPIs and success metrics for all project types, enabling effective performance tracking and reporting

• Analyze project results to provide insights for continuous improvement and decision-making

• Provide timely updates to executive leadership and stakeholders on program status, achievements, and any potential roadblocks

• Clearly convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, ensuring effective communication and understanding

• Successfully prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

• Lead collaboration with product managers, business analysts, software engineers, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, define scope, and align priorities across multiple product domains and platform teams

• Foster effective communication and collaboration between Consulting Services teams and other departments to ensure seamless integration of data-driven insights into product development

• Coach and serve as an example to multiple teams in systems thinking, root cause analysis, and collaborative problem solving

• Facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches

• Work closely with product owners and management to provide visibility into feature readiness

• Lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team

• Keep customer and management well informed

• Drive project initiation through completion; responsibility includes planning customer engagements, managing business requirements, review & signoff process, managing the execution of deliverables while controlling scope, executing the change management process when needed and ensuring timely resolution of discrepancies and project roadblocks

• Advise, in collaboration with other project team members such as BA (Business Analyst) and TL (Technical Lead), clients on best practices for change management and business practices as they pertain to software uses

• Establish project plans, timelines and specifications based on customer needs

• Requirements gathering through observation and interview to help the product design team improve product offerings

• Report project status information to all key stakeholder on a regular basis

• Research implementation issues and facilitate their solutions 

• Additional duties as assigned.

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Experience:

• Requires 5-7 years of related experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degreeor related experience

• Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC) and supplemental methodologies required

• Agile preferred

• Certification in Project Management from PMI is a plus

• Consulting experience is preferred

• Computer/Technical:

• Proficient in Office 365 - Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

• Demonstrate ability to learn and understand basic office software applications is critical

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