Hiring for Project Leader @ Multiple Location // Only USC and GC

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We have below requirement with our client. Please go through the JD let me know your interest

Role: Project Leader

Duration: Long Term

Location: Georgia - Atlanta, Texas – Austin, Dallas, Houston; Arizona – Gilbert, Phoenix; Florida – Lake Mary, Orlando, Tampa; North Carolina – Charlotte; Massachusetts – Boston.

 

Only USC and GC

 As a Senior Project Leader, you will be a trusted advisor working with product managers, portfolio owners, and leaders across the firm. This role partners with the product manager by supporting planning, prioritization, monitoring and controlling for the overall Digital Product, which includes multiple agile product delivery teams. It requires experience with high-risk, complex business projects and requires a high degree of strategic thinking, systems thinking, planning, organizing, driving for results, communicating with impact, and adapting to change.

Responsibility Summary:

• Trusted advisor/ "Chief of Staff" and partner for Product Managers to help plan and support the product vision and ongoing management of the product strategy.

• Serve as "protector" that enables Product Leadership to focus on product strategy by removing distractions and as a "connector" that facilitates transparent communication with stakeholders and leadership.

• Funding management, governance group preparation including budget planning, management, tracking, as well as third party vendor selection and invoice management.

• Track and manage Product Resource needs and allocations.

• Management and communication of Product Roadmaps, Milestones, Issues, Risks, and Status Reports to ensure transparency and visibility to team members, stakeholders, divisional leaders and 3rd party vendors keeping everyone informed in a clear, concise, and timely manner.

• Drive cross-product, cross-portfolio, and cross-program collaboration in order to address interdependencies, ensure high levels of engagement and align stakeholders.

• Facilitate and monitor intake process from new idea/suggestion to an Epic/Feature being entered on the Product Backlog.

• Facilitate the operational use of product team tools (communication, road-mapping, prototyping, user-onboarding, etc.) by establishing internal best practices and processes and ensuring team members are using tools effectively.

• Drive collaboration with project leader peers to model and influence best practices, share feedback and lessons learned.

• Establish onboarding plans for new resources, ensuring they have access to the right tools, people, and information so that they can start contributing quickly.

• Take initiative for the cross-functional product team to operate as effectively as possible with a focus on alignment, communication, and processes and scale.

• Provide timely communication of relevant data to senior leadership for decision making.

• Use metrics and controls to measure progress, take preventative and corrective action and escalate issues and risks when necessary.

• Remove roadblocks for the product teams regarding processes, tools, responsibilities as well as drive accountability and escalate challenges as needed.

 

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience leading multi-million-dollar ($5M+), enterprise-wide projects with a high level of complexity/integration that includes other projects and project leaders.

• 5+ years of industry or product management experience in a project leadership capacity.

• Previous leadership experience preferred.

• A bachelor's degree is preferred.

• MBA or graduate degree a plus.

• Project management certification (PMP) a plus.

• Agile certification a plus.

Additional Qualifications needed:

• Experience in planning for execution in Agile and Agile Transformations preferred.

• Effectively analyze and resolve complex problems while working with areas across the firm.

• Make and communicate complex decisions and/or recommendations with consideration for risks and long-term impacts. Some decisions may be in gray areas where little or no guidance is available.

• Effectively have span of influence in managing up, resolving conflict across multiple groups, and impacting processes and approaches used across the area and the firm

• Experience leading or formally mentoring project team members and project leaders.

• Superior interpersonal and communication skills; effectively communicates with project team, other project leaders, multiple areas, divisions and outside vendors. Incorporates effective listening and collaboration skills.

• Superior presentation skills preferred.

• Superior organization and coordination skills.

• Ability to independently identify, prioritize, monitor, communicate, and/or resolve elements that can impact a product.

• Experience leading idea cost / benefit reviews.

• Working understanding of Lean-Agile/ SAFe principles preferred

Thanks & Regards   

Mohd Taher   

Unicom Technologies Inc., A Certified MBE    

896 S Frontenac st, Ste#112, Aurora, IL 60504

Mail: Taher@unicomtec.com
Web: www.unicomtec.com   

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