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Project Management Responsibilities:

Responsible for assembling project team, assigning individual responsibilities and enforcing accountability, developing and maintaining a budget and schedule to ensure timely completion of project. Maintain standard project management documentation and metrics with limited direction from PMO Director. Work directly with client counterpart, other project leads, and ongoing operations to deliver successful implementation and manage scope. Execute Project Plan as part of Anixter's SDLC Framework: Execute the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.

Communicates with others: Provides information to others both internal and external to the organization; represents the organization to customers and other external sources.

Monitor and Control Project Work: Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques in order to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.

Manage Change to Project Scope: Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan and facilitate customer acceptance.

Implement Quality Management Plan: Implement the quality management plan to ensure that work is being performed according to required quality standards (including appropriate gate processes)

Communicate Project Plan: Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the project plan in order to align the stakeholders and team members. Implement the approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project risk events in order to minimize the impact of the risks on the project.

Obtain Project Approval From Customer: Obtain project plan approval from the customer in order to formalize the project management approach.

Execute Resource Allocation Plan: Manage resource allocation proactively by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned to the tasks according to the project plan in order to execute the planned tasks successfully.

Close Contractual Obligations: Formalize final acceptance for the project from the sponsor/customer by ensuring that the delivered product(s) and services comply with the agreed deliverables lists, agreed scope, and any organizational procedures in order to close contractual obligations.

Measure Customer Satisfaction: Measure customer satisfaction at the end of the project by capturing customer feedback using appropriate interview techniques and surveys in order to gain, maintain, and improve customer long-term relationships.

Leads project team members: Provides leadership to project team members in order to achieve goals of project and or program. Assists project team members adjust to organizational change.

 Qualifications:

Formal Education & Certification

Bachelors degree or equivalent

Certified Scrum Master preferred

Looking for an AGILE EXPERT. Need to have atleast 4-5 years of experience in Agile

CSM is preffered

Knowledge & Experience

7-10 yrs years of project management experience. Prior experience in an Agile Development environment preferred

Prior experience managing CRM/ERP implementations huge plus

Background working in a PMO environment and a good understanding of Portfolio Management practices.

Strong communication skills.

Strong interpersonal skills to support team building: Builds mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members.

Ability to advocate a creative atmosphere, facilitates entrepreneurial meetings, and envisions a final product and overall market acceptance early in the design and/or development process.

Ability to develop cooperative relationships to achieve results through a win-win relationship.

Ability to establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies in order to assess potential partnership and commitment to the program.

Awareness of cultural diversity and can embrace and capitalize those differences; applies knowledge in decision-making process.

Ability to identify project risks by defining risk strategies and developing the risk management plan in order to reduce uncertainty throughout the project lifecycle.

 Technical Skills

Experience with MS Project as the primary tool for day-to-day management including WBS, usage of predecessor relationships across tasks in well-formed plan, resourcing, and cost baseline variances.

Physical Work Conditions

Office work environment,

Some travel dependent on project assignment

Additional Note:

No Relocation provided. Local candidates only.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.