Senior Project Manager
Company: VMLY&R
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: June 24, 2022
Job Description:
At VMLY&R, we create connected brands. We resist the usual
ways of seeing, doing and thinking - harnessing creativity,
technology and culture - to reimagine the entire connected consumer
experience. Our goal? To create work that becomes part of people's
lives, to drive value for our clients and, in the best of cases, to
impact the world. VMLY&R is looking for experienced Senior
Project Manager who can quickly understand our clients' needs and
objectives and has the ability to efficiently translate them into
clear and concise user stories and acceptance criteria to be
consumed by our teams. The senior manager will help client
stakeholders, product owners, and agile teams communicate
effectively throughout each stage of a project. VMLY&R needs
individuals who are proactive problem solvers that can manage team
dynamics, manage project financial performance, clearly communicate
status, and drive progression towards dates. Responsibilities
Business Analysis
- Client business practices and operations
- Business key performance indicators (KPI) and Definition of
Success
- Business, functional, and non-functional requirements (user
stories). Non-functional requirements include, but not limited to:
security, scalability, performance, SEO, and accessibility
- Work with client product owners and stakeholders to
efficiently, clearly and concisely document
- Coordinate story mapping or other requirements gathering
sessions
- Organize and lead product demonstrations regularly
- May function as a client proxy for agile teams
- Works with client product owner to set priority, build
roadmaps, and facilitate working sessions Requirements Analysis
- Work with agile teams to groom and refine user stories and
acceptance criteria to meet the agile team's definition of
ready.
- Annotate wireframes and/or creative to provide all needed
detail for execution
- Decompose or combine stories to support effective
execution
- Ability to communicate technical domain specific information to
non-technical peers Project Management
- Establishes dates required for completion of activities and
evaluates impact of change to the overall timeline.
- Manages progress and identifies risks, issues and gaps that
could impact timelines, and goals of services.
- Removes impediments from the working delivery team.
- Provides accurate and frequent status to internal teams on a
regular basis.
- Manages resourcing based on project needs.
- Provides necessary external status reporting to clients as
needed.
- Facilitate understanding of clients' environment to properly
set up project teams, identify needed documentation, and setup
status reporting
- Collaborate with agile team and leadership to produce estimates
and timelines for various possible solutions
- Work with agile teams and product owners to define release
plans
- Create exceptional quality project setup documents detailing
scope, assumptions, success criteria, risks, and communication
strategy
- Proactively work with agile teams to eliminate blockers and
impediments
- Facilitate team retrospectives, stand ups, and sprint planning
sessions
- Proactively identifies dependencies and issues between teams
and facilitates resolution
- Tracks project scope changes, delivery timing, and key project
metrics
- Communicates project progress, changes, and risks internally
and externally
- Quickly learn the basics of a given industry as needed to
support client work
- Mentor and support Business Systems Analysts
- Adhere to and evangelize VMLY&R standard processes, tools
and guidelines Quality
- Perform desk checks and ad hoc testing before, during, and
after quality assurance and user acceptance testing occurs As part
of the WPP Group, VMLY&R offers one of the best overall
compensation packages in the business. Required Skills & Experience
- College degree or Business Systems Analyst experience
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science,
computer information systems, marketing, or equivalent experience,
preferred
- 5+ years of analyst, project management, technical, and/or
business experience
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies,
specifically Scrum
- Experience in running or working with agile teams (preferably
Scrum)
- Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner,
preferred
- Understanding of business requirements, user stories, and
acceptance criteria
- Ability to break down and simplify complex problems and systems
into smaller and more consumable components
- Ability to provide proactive and assertive servant leadership
in problem solving, managing financial success of projects,
maintaining timelines, and reducing waste
- Strong interpersonal skills and able to resolve conflict with
productive outcomes
- Ability to be an effective and valuable part of a team
- Ability to effectively work across departments with diplomacy
and a firm understanding of other's roles and perspectives
- Able to view problems in context at the system level and align
solutions with the strategic direction of our clients and
company.
- Proactive, adaptable, and flexible
- Life-long learner, demonstrated commitment to continuous
improvement
- Strong attention to detail
- Demonstrable ability to operate under tight deadline with
complex business/technical solutions
- Ability to work across multiple projects
- Ability to manage workload with minimal supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with at least one application lifecycle management
solution
- Working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence, preferred VMLY&R
is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race,
color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national
origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
Keywords: VMLY&R, Kansas City , Senior Project Manager, Executive , Kansas City, Kansas
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