Project Manager/Sr. Consultant

Robert Half • Full-time • Remote (NC, Research Triangle Park) • $130k - $150k / year • 1w ago

If you are adept at managing projects within a PMO, communicating with key stakeholders and delivering value based on changing expectations, this could be the right opportunity for you! We have an immediate opening for a Mid-level to Sr-level Project Manager. If you like the idea of being at the center of our client's strategic business plan, apply to this opportunity through Robert Half for this Project Manager position.

How you will make an impact

- Collude with the Product Owner/Product Manager to facilitate creation and maintenance of the Project Roadmap

- Be instrumental in managing dependencies among cross-product teams

- Works with and communicates with technical team members, designers, stakeholders, and developers

- Accumulates briefing from business analysts, technical leads, and QA leads into plans

- Manages project planning

- Creates and handles the sprint planning and grooming meetings and marks ticket assignments

- See to it that the functional requirements are achievable, tracked, and met

- Sustain the team focus on the on-time delivery of agreed products

- Work in close partnership with the Business Analyst, QA Manager, Product Specialist, and Product Owner/Product Manager

- Monitors and schedules projects - as per the Project Roadmap defined by the Business Owner

- Contributes as Scrum Master for the developers on the team - clearing obstacles, ensuring the team is working effectively, and leading scrum ceremonies

- Conducts deployment scheduling in coordination with Dev Ops, Product Owner, and tech lead

- Teams up with Product Owner/Product Manager to see to it that the product vision and high-level business objectives are apparent and accomplishable

- Lays out project with appropriate ticket workflows and boards

- Be instrumental to classify, identify, and manage risk for functional improvement requests

- Assigns schedules and milestones with inputs from all other teams assigned to that product, manages project scope and timelines

- Equips detailed reporting to management on milestone completion, project status, and risk assessments

- Sets forth the RACI matrix for projects in a product line

- Enhances the daily stand-ups, making sure they are brief, focused, and timely

- Coordinates with the Product Owner/Product Manager to turn the product roadmap into executable projects

Requirements

- Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical colleagues

- Flexibility to adapt to changes in procedures and job assignments

- Excellent verbal, written, and social communication skills

- PMO (project management office) experience preferred

- PMP Certification experience

- Background in project management, operations, and supervisory leadership

- Minimum of 5+ years of relevant Project Management experience

- Experience working with e-learning and blended learning programs

- This most important thing for any applicant to this position is to be familiar and comfortable with IT project management methodologies

- Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision

- Excellent problem-solving skills

- A Project Management (PMP) certification is strongly preferred

- Flexible and focused

- It is preferred for applicants to have proficiency using commonly accepted scheduling and project management tools

- Commitment and abilities to meet critical business deadlines