*Backfill!! EAD, GC or USC and MUST BE LOCAL TO CA who can do FTF*
Location: Santa Monica, CA Type: Contract Duration: 6 months (could go longer) Interview: Phone/Skype then Onsite – Local candidates only *Project Manager Job Description:* Responsible for managing and delivering to a project timeline. Works with the product and business analyst team to ensure we stay within scope, accountable for managing and reducing costs, and ensures quality is monitored and continuously improved. Ensures cross-functional and vendor teams are supported and are accountable to deadlines. Provides timely and succinct communication, and ensures collaboration with all team members. *Requirements* • Experienced in formal software development project management; experience with formal PMO structure • Expert in MS Project with ability to learn new software quickly; expertise in MS SharePoint and/or JIRA a plus • Solid understanding of database, analysis and reporting concepts; solid understanding of how BI differs from front end web development a plus • Experience managing BI, Data Warehouse, Data Migration or Web Analytics projects a plus Project management • Drive BI and Data Migration projects to completion • Identify project tasks and milestones, assign delivery time, ensure alignment with program milestone and dates • Conduct & maintain resource planning, assign tasks to resources, manage progress • Approve timesheets, track & approve invoices • Plan sprint, identify dependencies to other team, drive delivery of dependencies • Draft monthly financial accruals • Identify risks and issues and come up with plan to mitigate risk and resolve issues • Communicate identified risks and issues to the executives in a timely manner • Co-ordinate with multiple teams and vendors Analysis • Identify source and target, and data requirements for data migration project • Create conceptual diagram • Gather requirements & business rules and ensure implementation of rules within project timeline Documentation/Tools • Business rules document • Create and maintain Project plan • Create and maintain cutover plan • JIRA tickets *Specific duties include:* • Must be business savvy; understands the must haves/dos for the project and ultimately for our customers • Has worked with vendors, and knows how to best lead and manage teams • Experience in managing a budget and spend, understands the importance of tracking actuals and run rate, accruals, write-offs, reconciliation, paying our vendors on-time, comprehending contracts (understanding of when to engage with finance and legal as needed) • Deliveries on PM responsibilities and understands the SDLC, Agile and Waterfall frameworks • Metrics and Scorecard – understand the importance of tracking and monitoring the team performance • Working with multiple and conflicting priorities • Following up on milestones, action items, issues, risks, change requests (ensuring owners are on-track and delivering to due dates/milestones) • Effectively communicating and interacting with people at all levels of the organization • Ability to work some non-standard hours • Accountable for the successful delivery of the assigned project tracks • Establishes and manages the project work plan • Works with the scrum master and vendor project manager(s) to ensure the timely completion of deliverables. • The project manager must ensure that the backlog is created and maintained timely, and in accordance with the program rules, backlog must be prepared for grooming – including vetted with product managers, BAs, Creative and/or UX designers as appropriate) • Manages project resources, including: identifies and secures resources for the project, this includes ensuring that they are on-boarded per the requirements of the company and the program • Submits requests for resources changes to the program director and prepares the documents needed for the change • Enters all deliverables in the Project Deliverables tracker. (Any task that is a document is input immediately after the task is created so that it’s successful completion is tracked and input in the repository) • Serves as the first escalation point for all project issues. Enters issues into the issues tracker, facilitates the evaluation of each issue for change, and serves as the change agent for their project pillar. • Responsible for escalating to the Operating Committee and Program Management as appropriate • Acts as backup for the scrum master during the daily stand-ups • Participates to all meetings with vendor and all the PMs • Other duties as assigned *Skills* • Communication skills o Exceptional communicator (speaking, writing, active listening) o Ability to succinctly answer questions and respond (e.g. summarize blockers, issues, dependencies, risks and provide proactive updates) o Ability to actively listen, understand, and make decisions to drive action and hold team members accountable o Must be a driver/leader and well-spoken (comfortable in speaking in front of larger audiences) • Interpersonal skills o Personal (others will want to engage with this person) o Must be able to relate to others and think in terms of their audience • Proficient in MS Office and SharePoint • Detail-oriented and high organizational skills • Ability to identify process opportunities and drive to improvement • Understanding of traceability and audit *Desired* • Experience with WebEx • Jira (or similar issue tracking tool) experience • MS Project, Visio • Smartsheet • LucidCharts • Experience working on an IT program and eCommerce platform Regards: Sam Williams - Recruiting Manager ITBrainiac Inc. 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