Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 months, contract

Pay: $65-75/hour W2

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Retail client with over $80B in annual revenue has over 2,000 stores, across 21 US states, with over 400,000 employees. This company is a leader in sustainable retailing with a passion for delivering excellence. By driving omni channel growth, efficiency in the shopping experience and continuing to develop with new technologies; this company is growing and developing continuing success. The leadership team strives for work-life balance for all its employees, with options for overtime if desired.

This role is Agile-oriented with some waterfall, therefore needing somebody with experience that can perform as a Scrum Master and a PM. This person should have experience in Retail Systems, POS, or Infrastructure Cloud (Not applications in the cloud) and/or Hosting (Data Center, virtualization, Operating System Upgrades).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for facilitating all the scrum ceremonial meetings like the Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint Demo/Review & retrospectives.
• Help the Product Owner and Scrum team create & maintain a healthy product backlog and helps the team in continuously managing & prioritizing the backlog.
• Help the team plan sprints based on team capacity, remove impediments that may hinder progress and continuously monitor sprint progress and assist the team in meeting the Sprint commitments.
• Track team(s) velocity and publish metrics like velocity charts, sprint burn up/down charts and release burn up/down charts.
• Create, setup and maintain the Scrum/Kanban JIRA/ADS boards for the team and ensure all work is tracked and updated regularly on the board.
• Manage the overall scope of the project and negotiate with the PO/business on priority and what can be accomplished by the team.
• Protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
• Build out a sprint calendar, release plan(s) and manage the overall timeline & delivery of the project.
• Review project team allocations, project related POs/invoices & manage the project financials.
• Identify, track, manage, escalate and report on risks and issues.
• Create & publish weekly Clarity project status reports & host Steering Committee meetings.
• Negotiate and align the expectations with the capacity/ commitment and the team deliverables.
• Keep the RTE/ Program Manager and Portfolio lead informed of the milestones/ deliverables of the team.
• Escalate as needed to remove impediments for the team.
• Establish an environment for the team to thrive and bring out the best in them.
• Motivate the team and build positive, lasting relationships with the team and other stakeholders.
• Coach the team on Agile best practices and help the team continually improve by using retrospective meetings as learning and adjust/improve based on the findings/recommendations.
• Accountable to follow Agile processes for delivery of commitments.
• Provide feedback into the improvement of Agile practice.
• Responsible for end-to-end execution and on time, on budget and on scope delivery of the project.
• Responsible for Financial Management, Risk Management and Dependency management for the project.
• Responsible for developing a comprehensive project plan.
• Work with the resource manager on the resource planning for the project.
• Accountable for maintaining the RAAIDD log.
• Escalate when required and hold people accountable for mitigation and resolution of risk and issues.
• Work with Project Accountants to get information for Financial Management on the project.
• Responsible for managing changes in project scope, objectives, requirements, and resources and adherence to change control policies.
• Collaborate with solution team to take the project through change control process when required.
• Collaborate with other project managers for dependencies and manage them with minimal impact to delivery.
• Manage and track interdependencies and interfaces with related projects.
• Collaborate with the solution team to ensure adherence to release management practices on the project.
• Accountable and responsible for receiving Go-No-Go Signoff.
• Hold delivery teams accountable for the development of architecture design document, test plans, deployment and hypercare plan.
• Set and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Responsible for project level governance and status reporting to right stakeholders at cadence.
• Keep the Portfolio Lead and Program Manager informed on all the risks, issues and dependencies on the projects and seek help when necessary.
• Responsible for issuing a communication close out email for the project and other close out activities including updating Clarity and retrospective.
• Responsible for issuing communications for major changes (Before and after the change) that affect multiple applications and/or stores.
• Set vision for the project, analysis and resolve issues.
• Understand the teams' perspectives and protect the team by negotiating with stakeholders as required.
• Accountable to follow processes and ensure all artifacts are produced and phase gates approvals are obtained.
• Coach and mentor the project team on the process and tools.

Category Code: JN008

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