Project Manager Enterprise Engineering (Remote)

Job Description

Title: Project Manager – Enterprise Engineering

Location: Remote

Ekman Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in developing business, digital, and technology strategy, delivering solutions, and addressing human resource demands.

Summary:

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing complex IT and business transformation projects, tactical execution of business processes, solid project management, and strong working knowledge of SDLC and agile framework.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineering and business owners to drive planning, execution and delivery of critical projects. Spearhead the projects using SDLC and scrum practices.
• Develop communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate project status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
• Partner with cross functional teams to drive product analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.
• Ensure project activities happen as planned. Own end to end planning, execution, delivery and change management for multiple projects.
• Work closely with the Portfolio/Program Manager to establish program governance and decision models.
• Drive process improvements across multiple teams and functions including reducing the manual efforts through automation.
• Work with various globally distributed cross functional teams to align on project priorities, track and manage inter dependencies.
• Assist the Program Manager in developing detailed requirement analysis, planning, driving e2e execution and overall status updates
• Identify and map program and project dependencies within and outside of the program/project, ensuring the right cross-functional partners are engaged in a timely manner.
• Track and manage inter dependencies and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
• Resolve conflicts/issues that occur and resolve impediments blocking scrum team’s progress. Manage project risks with mitigation strategies.
• Drive adoption and proficiency of changes within the organization in compliance with program’s change management methodologies.
• Effectively manage stress for the forgoing list.
• Effectively manage stress in accomplishing the foregoing list.

Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience in the Project Management domain with a track record of delivering complex technology projects in high-tech IT/Operations space.
• Strong experience in managing complex projects using software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated record of problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience collaborating with technical teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
• Experience leading global projects, including hands-on project management of multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience with leading and delivering projects both in agile and waterfall methods.
• Experience with change management, IT service management/service catalog.

Qualified Candidates Only: If you wish to learn more about this opportunity and additional qualifications/responsibilities, please submit your resume. To learn more about Ekman Associates, Inc. please visit our website at .