Project Manager Job Bentonville area,Arkansas USA,Business

JOB SUMMARY

Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable based model; by delivering the agreed scope, within the agreed timeline and cost. Ensure the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met, enhancing customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)
Maintain regular communication with customer; addressing needs through empathy with their environment
Define activities, responsibilities, critical milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces and budget. Optimize costs and time utilisation, minimize waste and deliver projects on time, on budget as per the contract and agreed scope, with a high quality result.
Anticipate all possible risk manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; while developing contingency plans.
Implement the governance model defined for similar projects
Track and reports project KPIs and analyze project health
Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs
Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams

Typical performance measures

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

Performance Areas Scope Management

Conduct requirements analysis, requirements elicitation, scope control and 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

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, with assumptions, scope and boundaries defined

Review and validate 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

Plan and manage multiple small projects/ modules as defined within UST

Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple, small projects/ modules

Anticipate items that cause schedule delays, schedule dependencies and manage them following the proper risk management plan

Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same

Estimate the work, plan and track the activities closely and report the progress on a regular basis

Risk/Issue management

Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact the project KPIs. Obtain agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on the plan

Identify and closely track the risks in the project and follow escalation path

Document the risks and issues in the project, communicate them to all relevant stakeholders and closely track the impact

Stakeholder Management

Identify the internal and external stakeholders on the project

Define the RACIA chart and communicate the…