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Job Summary:
Saviance is a company seeking a Consulting Iteration Manager to lead a team of IT Project Managers. The role involves overseeing project management processes, guiding teams in Agile methodologies, and ensuring successful project completion while maintaining quality control and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
• Provides direction to a team of IT Project Managers.
• Performs administrative duties of hiring, purchasing of equipment, conducting employee reviews, staffing and other resource management tasks.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to staff.
• Participates in budget preparation and tracking.
• Estimates feasibility, time and effort of projects and tasks via the Project Portfolio Management committee.
• Supports projects through appropriate resource assignments.
• Guides and monitors projects and tasks to successful completion.
• Maintains procedures and processes to ensure quality control.
• Sets team goals and prioritizes tasks to align with company and department objectives and communicates these goals to team members.
• Measures progress and results of team performance.
• Ensures that project managers understand and follow best practices for software development and project management.
• Recommends, develops and implements repeatable project management processes and best practices.
• Manages all aspects of team staffing including hiring, employee retention, employee development and training.
• Assists staff in maintaining constant communication with customers, both internal and external, to facilitate analysis and troubleshooting to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
• Provides status reports to Management as appropriate, highlighting risks and issues.
• Helps prepare and manage budget.
• Coaches and mentors other IT Project Managers in lean/Agile methods.
• Drives servant leadership and coaches other IT Project Managers on this quality.
• Empowers the teams to be self-organizing.
• Empowers the teams and stakeholders to make decisions.
• Measures and reports progress frequently using agile metrics.
• Creates Product Roadmap and Release Plan in partnership with POs and IMs.
• Leads coordinating practices in Agile methods such as Release Planning, Iteration Planning, Grooming etc.
• Coaches and assists Product Owners in prioritization, 3-Amigo Reviews and other PO activities.
• Leads and facilitates Scrum of Scrums with related projects/teams.
• Develops and maintains project charters, detailed project plans, weekly status updates and provides problem resolution.
• Creates and maintains WBS, RACI, Stakeholder Register and detailed Project Management plan.
• Manages dependencies across projects.
• Performs Root Cause Analysis.
• Leads in the establishment and facilitation of internal IT project.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Provides direction to a team of IT Project Managers.
• Performs administrative duties of hiring, purchasing of equipment, conducting employee reviews, staffing and other resource management tasks.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to staff.
• Participates in budget preparation and tracking.
• Estimates feasibility, time and effort of projects and tasks via the Project Portfolio Management committee.
• Supports projects through appropriate resource assignments.
• Guides and monitors projects and tasks to successful completion.
• Maintains procedures and processes to ensure quality control.
• Sets team goals and prioritizes tasks to align with company and department objectives and communicates these goals to team members.
• Measures progress and results of team performance.
• Ensures that project managers understand and follow best practices for software development and project management.
• Recommends, develops and implements repeatable project management processes and best practices.
• Manages all aspects of team staffing including hiring, employee retention, employee development and training.
• Assists staff in maintaining constant communication with customers, both internal and external, to facilitate analysis and troubleshooting to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
• Provides status reports to Management as appropriate, highlighting risks and issues.
• Helps prepare and manage budget.
• Coaches and mentors other IT Project Managers in lean/Agile methods.
• Drives servant leadership and coaches other IT Project Managers on this quality.
• Empowers the teams to be self-organizing.
• Empowers the teams and stakeholders to make decisions.
• Measures and reports progress frequently using agile metrics.
• Creates Product Roadmap and Release Plan in partnership with POs and IMs.
• Leads coordinating practices in Agile methods such as Release Planning, Iteration Planning, Grooming etc.
• Coaches and assists Product Owners in prioritization, 3-Amigo Reviews and other PO activities.
• Leads and facilitates Scrum of Scrums with related projects/teams.
• Develops and maintains project charters, detailed project plans, weekly status updates and provides problem resolution.
• Creates and maintains WBS, RACI, Stakeholder Register and detailed Project Management plan.
• Manages dependencies across projects.
• Performs Root Cause Analysis.
• Leads in the establishment and facilitation of internal IT project.
Preferred:
• CSM - Certified Scrum Master
• PMP - Project Management Professional
Company:
Saviance is a modern consulting firm providing a variety of professional services to its clients in the US. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Metuchen, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.