Urgent Need of Project Manager with Retail Exp Preferred
Location: Bentonville, AR (Remote Until Covid)
Long Term
Client is looking for a highly energetic Project Manager to perform end-to-end management of a single or portfolio of projects with TCV 500K – $1Mn in deliverables based or outcome-based model by delivering the agreed scope within the agreed timelines and cost. Fully ensuring the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met and customer satisfaction is enhanced.As a Project Manager at UST Global, this is your opportunity to · Identify key stakeholders to ensure establishing and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)· Maintain regular communication with customer / partner / supplier; addressing needs through empathy with their environment· Define activities responsibilities critical milestones resources skills needs interfaces and budget. Optimize costs and time utilization minimise waste and deliver projects on time and budget as per the contract and agreed scope with a high quality result. · Anticipate all possible risks and manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; developing contingency plans.· Define and implement the governance model as per the project needs· Plan and implement metrics driven management model and quantitatively assess the project health· Orchestrate projects to develop or implement new internal or externally defined processes to meet identified business needs. · Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies and instil customer’s confidence· Build manage and nurture high performing teams providing individual and team mentoring ensuring high levels of team engagement and developing capabilities within team ensuring seamless communication and resolving conflicts· Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams Measures of Outcomes:· Sprint velocity/team productivity· Planned schedule vs actual· Planned effort vs actual· Planned cost vs actual· Retention· Requirement stability and effectiveness of scope change management· Product quality (rework effort defect density defect leakage in various phases and number of rejected defects) · Risk management index· Adoption of reusable components and artefacts· Customer satisfaction· Team satisfaction Outputs Expected:Scope Management : · Conduct requirements analysis requirements elicitation scope control and scope prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management· Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents traceability matrix bridge documents analysis methodologies and solution artefacts· Partner with the customer to define their requirements / elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop· Manage customers expectations by pre- planning deliverables like wireframes prototypes demos MVPs etc· Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization Estimation and Resource Planning: · Consolidate estimates at a solution level evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint assumptions and defining scope and boundaries · Review validate and negotiate estimates across service lines· Conduct resource planning (pyramid people development) at a project level based on project requirements· Conduct impact analysis for changes and analyze corresponding impact to overall estimates and resource loading· Identify the different roles and skills for each role considering the constraints pre-requisites and other project specific KPIs Project/ Schedule Management: · Identify and plan the end-end activities required to meet the project acceptance criteria· Plan and manage multiple small/ medium size projects/ modules as defined within UST· Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple small or medium size proje
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