Project Manager

Sr Project Manager

This position is responsible for planning, managing, tracking and reporting of the Next Generation Rate Price Management (RPM) effort supporting a Vendavo Business-to-Business (B2B) pricing implementation. The Project Manager will partner with the IT Program Manager, IT System Manager and Business Product Manager to proactively monitor and manage project status, schedule, budget, scope, quality, issues, risks and dependencies. This position will also be responsible for implementing, facilitating and enabling the Scrum process for multiple Scrum teams within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The Project Manager must understand project management processes and execution, as well as the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for waterfall, Agile, and hybrid approaches. A working knowledge for IT infrastructure, systems integration and vendor management is essential. Leverages expertise to understand impacts to projects, proactively manage risks, coordinate and quickly resolve issues, and provide leadership and guidance to project teams. This role is one that requires team leadership, business acumen, strong relationship management skills and ability to address executive audiences. The Project Manager should understand the alignment of project work with corporate strategies and be able to manage project changes to facilitate risk management, issue resolution, planning and re-planning of projects as they relate to strategies, and recommend timing of project production deployments. A strong understanding of project governance in the context large scale project management, software development, and testing life cycles is a required.

Essential Functions

• Effectively communicates at all levels of the organization
• Leads, mentors, and manages project team
• Ability to drive projects from both a tactical and strategic perspective
• Solid analytical and problem solving skills
• Builds partnerships, based on trust and transparency, with the various business units to report project health and status
• A high level of independence to lead and influence others
• Responsible for and expected to lead project teams in the Project Management areas of Schedule, Communications, Cost, Integration, Quality, Resource, Risk, Scope and Time management
• Assists and supports organizational change management
• Solid understanding of project management methodology to identify and communicate issues, risks and dependencies
• Ability to identify and resolve project issues effectively
• Ensure that projects follow standard policy, procedures, and methodology
• Responsible for leading large complex projects, or multiple medium size projects, that spans multiple systems and business areas
• Works with other project managers to manage interdependencies
• Project contingency planning through risk identification, prioritization and response planning
• Support procurement processes as needed
• Ensure project change management processes and procedures are followed
• Work with the program leaders to facilitate:
• Release Planning Event
• Scrum of Scrum
• Program governance
• System Demo
• Team status reports
• Stakeholder management and organizational change management
• Continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college/university or equivalent work experience
• At least one Agile methodology certification such as:
• SAFe SA (Certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilist)
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• CSM (Certified Scrum Master)
• PSM (Professional Scrum Master)
• Experience leading multiple Scrum teams in a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or Scrum Master role and coaching for improvement
• Experience leading infrastructure implementations, systems integration, or application development projects
• 10+ years of experience leading Information Technology projects that involved business process change, organizational change, and multiple large scale technology components
• Experience in business and solution development, project management, and project delivery
• Understanding of the system development life cycle
• Ability to interact effectively with various levels within the organization
• Experience engaging and working with vendors/partners to effectively deliver projects
• Experience developing complex, project plans to meet business objectives
• Experience developing and managing large project budgets
• Proven experience in project change management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proficient in MS Project & MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Experience with Agile tools (Jira, Rally, Version One, etc.)

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills

• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification
• Master's Degree from an accredited college/university (MBA, Information Systems or Computer Science)
• Experience with Version One, Plan view and/or Vendavo
• Transportation industry/railroad experience.