BI Project Manager at Randstad USA

Project Manager

- Excellent customer focus-dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers, acts with customers in mind, and establishes and maintains effective working relationships with customers.

- Proven knowledge of Project/Program Management principles / methodologies (e.g., waterfall and Agile) and the ability to coach and mentor less experienced program/project managers.

- Proven process management skills-skilled at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done, knows how to organize people and activities, knows how to separate, and combine tasks into an efficient workflow. Can recommend enhancements and present findings to executive stakeholders.

- Proven planning skills-can work with cross-functional project teams to accurately scope out length and difficulty of milestones, break work down into tasks, develop schedules for multiple, inter-connected and non-related projects and teams, anticipate and adjust for problems and roadblocks, measure performance against goals across the program, and evaluate results.

- Embrace and lead change.

- Demonstrates ability to effectively cope with change and shift gears comfortably.; help their teams and executive stakeholders move efficiently through the change curve.

- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and interpersonal) with team members, stakeholders, and customers-effective in a variety of informal and formal settings. Able to clearly articulate complex concepts.

- Excellent decision-making skills-can make quality decisions in a timely manner.

- Excellent conflict resolution skills.

- Demonstrates ability to thrive in a fast-paced, self-managing, team-based, dynamic environment. Technical Understanding

- Research functional and technical knowledge and programs needed to support the program.

 
location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
job type: Contract
salary: $49 - 56 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

Drives BI team programs and projects required to ensure programs achieve their strategic objectives within scope, schedule, and budget and deliver business value.

- Ensures that all assigned programs are utilizing an appropriate change control process.

- Articulates the program status and outcomes appropriately to all stakeholders, including making presentations that could be presented for executive sponsors.

- Develops and implements effective communication plans, designed to drive program discussions with stakeholders; handles escalations or further escalates so that issues do not impact scope, schedule, or budget.

- Develops resource estimates and identifies subject-matter-expertise required to effectively staff program. Negotiates with resource managers on the availability of all needed resources.

- Ensures that all required program artifacts (charter, change requests, etc.) are executed and stored correctly; ensures that all project teams and project managers comply with methodologies established; conducts periodic program audits to ensure compliance.

- Ensures that program and project managers utilize industry-standard project, program, and change management best practices.

- Ensures that the project and program managers are helping their teams to Identify all project risks and create plans to manage (accept, avoid, mitigate, transfer.) Coaches on risk management strategies as needed.

- Responsible for forecasting and controlling the program budget (revenue and costs) to ensure the entire portfolio realizes the expected financial & business benefits (e.g., revenue, cost savings, etc.).

- Ensures that requirements gathering sessions with key stakeholders and project teams occur as needed. Ensure that requirements between inter-related and/or non-related projects within the program are clearly articulated and approved to ensure the successful execution of the portfolio.

- Understands Business Unit requirements and ensure that program time logging requirements are met.

- Leads efforts in determining the optimal resourcing mix required to best achieve program operational and financial goals.

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 10 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors (required)

• Manager
• Business Intelligence
  

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