What You Will Do
• Lead and manage complex project plans, ensuring seamless collaboration across various teams and workstreams.
• Act as the point of contact for project stakeholders, providing regular updates and ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Use expertise in user analytics tools to guide and inform project decisions.
• Monitor project progress, identify potential risks, and implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate cross-functional team meetings, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.
• Build and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including timelines, budgets, and prioritization plans and operating within the program guidelines and Ways of Working.
• Assist product owners in developing outcome-based roadmaps, aligning project goals with strategic outcomes.
• Promote critical thinking and innovative approaches throughout the project.
• Produce and manage financial plans as needed for the efforts undertaken.
• Research and provide cause of change for variances from the project scope, schedule, and cost.
• Maintain a continuous view of resource demand and capacity across projects; proactively partnering with leadership to plan for leveled resource allocation across development and sustainment activities.
• Ability to translate financials information and objectives to leaders, business partners, Finance, Sourcing & Procurement to tell the ‘story’ behind the numbers.
• Manage complex team to executive relationships while ensuring reporting, data, and progress are appropriately tailored to the environment in which it’s being reports.
• Make sure your project delivers the expected results expected.
Requirements:
• 7+ years of Project management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions.
• Experience working closely with technology, creative and user experience teams.
• Experience with budget tracking and cost-benefit analysis.
• Solid ability to drive complex forecasts & capacity plans and to communicate risks and dependencies to leaders and business partners.
• Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, or Waterfall methodologies.
• Ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects.
• Strong organizational, communication (written and verbal, up to executive level) and time management skills with attention to detail.
• Experience and ability to work collaboratively at executive level while driving work.
• Experience with Agile Application Lifecycle Management and development tools like JIRA, Confluence Wiki. Jira expertise is a must.
• Understanding of Agile and Agile at Scale (e.g. SAFe) technical practices
• Experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management standard methodologies.
Preferred:
• Technical project management experience in managing transformation workstreams from ‘today’s’ process to ‘tomorrow’s’.
• Experience with large migrations of product from ‘as-is’ to ‘to-be’ state.
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• Experience working and thriving in a highly matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders including working with diverse geographic teams including Florida, California, and Paris.
• Certification in one or more of the following:
o Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
o Agile Certifications (CSM; ACP; CSPO; SAFe; LeSS)
• Ability to be in office in Orlando as needed is highly desired, but not required