Project Manager

Skills

Description

The Agility Program is made up of three critical components.

Core ERP solution definition and rollout (Agility) Standard suite of solutions definition, building the necessary interfaces and integrations, rolling out a “complete” solution suite Project Management best practices, process flows, SOPs definition, documentation, and training.

Key Technologies of the Program:

Agility ERP solution – Record to Report, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Inventory and Distribution focus
GetPaid, eCommerce, Stibo STEP, Mulesoft, EDI, CDCS, Vendavo, OnBase, Avalara, WorldPay, Billtrust, eDelivery, BI reporting, and others.

Responsibilities

• Direct strategic initiatives and other IT projects
• Understand the business objectives for all associated projects; continually reassess and adjust project outcomes to align with strategic objectives
• Work with resource managers to allocate work across product and functional teams in a way that balances priorities, capacity utilization, and technical expertise.
• Work with Business Analysts, Business Leads, and Product Owners to prioritize work based on due dates, dependences, and business priorities.
• Experience in a matrixed organization is preferred
• Coordinate interactions between product and functional teams. Facilitate coordination using dashboards, reports and meetings as needed
• A clear understanding of the fundamental parts of project management such as project plans, MS Project, etc
• Coordinate timelines and release schedules. Ensure that different project paces and methodologies (sprints, waterfall milestones, etc.) are coordinated to minimize contention for technical resources, issues with dependencies, etc.
• Work with business sponsor, stakeholders, and project/product teams to schedule releases. Ensure that releases are sequenced logically and in a way that best meets the capacity of the delivery teams and the needs of the business. Verify that release plans and support plans are in place and have the appropriate level of ownership and involvement from impacted teams.
• Manage the functional and technical dependencies between the work being performed by various product and functional teams.
• Serve as escalation point for product and project teams dealing with conflicts, risks, and impediments. Work with business and IT leadership, as needed, to drive resolution.
• Lead cross team business requirement workshops and gap analysis activities.
• Define project charters and project timelines. Track milestones and deliverables to meet defined timelines. Lay out course to get project over the finish line (not just monthly or quarterly objectives).
• Review SOW and accountable to commitments with vendors for overall project plans
• Practice RAID log-based methodologies
• Engage cross team resources timely to ensure planning is done well in advanced for all effected development teams as some utilize Agile methodologies
• Work jointly with QA resources to plan based on product testing timelines
• Participate and align with deployment readiness team around training and change management for successful deployments
• Foster effective Hypercare support and hand off to operational and business support teams
• Understand technologies and underlying architecture for scalability
• Recognize business continuity disaster recovery plans
• Own from inception to support