Description:
We are seeking a self-initiated, process-driven, and results-oriented Senior Project Manager & Business Analyst who is looking to make a positive impact. This person will serve as an IT “trusted advisor” to mainly the Accounting, Finance, and Operations team leaders. While representing IT as the key point of contact, you will have the opportunity to promote IT enterprise solutions and services such as ERP and other systems that drive productivity. You will effectively deliver projects with quality and to expectations aligned with stakeholder desired outcomes. Additionally, you will identify and lead initiatives for improvement within the Project and Portfolio Management Team, frequently leading efforts that impact the entire local IT department and the broader Global Center of Excellence. This role offers the flexibility of working in the office or a hybrid schedule.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Takes initiative to develop process improvements and facilitates appropriate discussions to ensure successful buy-in and adoption
- Identifies the need for new project, analyst, or partnership programs components and develops proposals to gain acceptance from key stakeholders
- Responsible for leading the successful completion and coordination of the Americas/Asia Pac IT programs and projects in sync with the company strategy. Manages projects horizontally and ensures that cross-project work remains feasible from a business standpoint.
- Interprets customer business needs and translates them into application and/or operational requirements or stories to be managed. Appropriately chooses a project management methodology to match the needs of the project
- Analyzes and recommends the strategic selection, prioritization, and sequencing of projects
- Effectively and consistently plans and defines project scope without the need for input from the Manager, IT PPM, including identifying and determining project outcomes, critical success pathways, and appropriate parameters, including projected budget and initial risk assessment.
- Ensures the disciplined application of standards and procedures across projects within all projects.
- Conducts cost-benefit analysis that appropriately articulates and quantifies the value to be delivered by a request, which will be used in filtering and prioritization activities.
- Within the context of project execution, the Scrum Master or Project Manager plays the role by facilitating all appropriate meetings, including those geared toward work estimation, work assignment, opportunities for improvement, and ultimately ensuring team success in its efforts to deliver to desired outcomes
- Critically evaluates technical, cost, and business information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstracts up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs
- Ensures all solutions support compliance and security requirements as they are being evaluated, designed, developed, and deployed
- Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
- Defines and tracks appropriate metrics to communicate and measure project or work-related performance for the project team, stakeholders, and sponsors
- Tracks project-related expenses to an overall budget
- Develops and performs testing of varying levels of complexity to ensure solutions match desired outcomes and are free of unapproved defects
- Facilitates seeking solutions that improve EBITDA by helping to reduce operating expenses, improve revenue, or reduce risk through appropriate automation and process improvement
What You’ll Bring To The Role:
- 7+ years Scrum Master/Project Manager experience
- 5+ years of ERP experience
- 5+ years as a Business Analyst
- 5+ years of professional end-user support of corporate or enterprise-level systems
- 3+ years as a Business Partner
- 2+ in a Quality Assurance role
- Preferred certifications: Scrum Master, PMP, Business Analyst (IIBA)