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Description:
Initiate projects and develop project charters. Commission projects & mobilize project teams
Initiate & assess competitive bid for 3rd party vendor project teams, with assistance from Business Partnership & Commercial Team
Create detailed project plans and assign project resources
Manages 3rd parties to ensure delivery per Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and recommends improved ways of working
Utilizes the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool for planning resources, project milestones, risks and financials
Engages Business Partnership Senior Managers & Managers, and business unit Directors and Senior Managers to ensure successful project deployment and benefits achievement
Manage day-to-day execution of projects. Manage delivery of agreed work products ensuring delivery to time, scope, cost & quality
Execute risk and issue management processes, analyze the overall project performance and initiate mitigating actions where required
Execute project close-down. Create final report (including lessons learned). Manage transition plan into Operations
Effectively maintain the project scope through use of the agreed Change Control processes
Lead Project Teams for Waterfall Projects and Waterfall Projects with Agile attributes (we are in the midst of transitioning to Agile ways of working, some projects may be pure Agile)
Accountable for sprint & scrum planning and delivery ensuring the agile development team operates smoothly without any blockers
Allow teams to self-organize and make changes quickly, in accordance with agile tools and techniques
Helping the team to reach consensus for what can be achieved during a specific period of time. Establish, measure & maintain sprint speed using Use Cases, Stories and Story Points
Escalation point for anything that impedes progress
Looking for Project Managers that dont need much hand holding but there will be internal employees that will be able to assist
My specific functional project areas are:
Human Resources
Commercial Buying
Finance
Some nice to haves:
Salesforce knowledge
SAP Finance
SAP Ariba
Agile/Dev Ops
Excellent work environment
Paid Vacation/Holidays
