Project Manager - Data Analytics

1. POSITION PURPOSE: 

• Develops project plans, timelines and executes strategic direction for assigned projects.  Ensures compliance with process and standards.  Ensures project direction aligns with the overall strategy.

• Focus on developing plans and executing against those plans for various initiatives and across products.

2. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Project Management:

Works with Program Manager and team to gain a clear understanding of goals, the reasons/benefits behind them and what success looks like.

With team input, identifies teams/resources/stakeholders who will need to be engaged.  Facilitates collaboration across teams and business stakeholders.

Works with team to establish work breakdown, or tasks, and approach for goals, tailoring project management process to best fit.  With team input, establishes target dates for project deliverables.

With team input, considers and identifies risks that will need to be mitigated and plans for mitigation.

Leads project team meetings.  Establishes, executes, and monitors project plan and/or timeline.  Tracks/manages/reports status on the work as it progresses with the focus on delivering value that is worth the time and effort of the project. 

Proactively identifies roadblocks then collaborates with stakeholders, 3rd parties, and product team to work through issues as they are identified and determines solutions. Communicates any deviations from the plan to Program Manager, resource manager(s) and/or IT Director.

Communicates as needed with all parties (stakeholders, project team, internal peers, external vendors and consultants) from initiation to closure utilizing established practices as applicable (Meetings, Change management, Release board, SOR notification, SDLC templates, status updates as required by IT Leadership) and best fit ad hoc communications to keep parties abreast and follow up as needed.

Ensures projects follow SDLC, SOX, and Information Security processes.

3. JOB SPECIFICATIONS: 

• KNOWLEDGE

 Knowledge of Project Management principles (PMI or equivalent) with experience managing projects and teams by these methods. 

 Understands the concepts of SDLC and can apply project management methodologies to common software development methodologies like waterfall and iterative development resulting in optimal deliverables.

 Understands the concepts of project management methodologies and can apply to various other types of IT projects such as hardware or software upgrades, hardware life cycle management, DevOps or IT enterprise tool replacements, database upgrades, cloud migrations, automation, security related initiatives, business continuity/disaster recovery, hardware or technology work related to other departments’ initiatives, etc.

 Ongoing learning – strives to stay up to date on industry knowledge and learn about new and emerging technologies and trends in the Exhibition and IT industries.  Follows PMI standards/best practices and available online training to stay up to date with evolving project management practices.

• SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

 Ability to take the established program and projects and drive them to completion, tracking to scope, timeline, and budget, but with the focus on delivering value that is worth the time and effort of the project.

 Ability to build and lead project work plan sessions to create project plans as well as provide weekly status updates.  Gains consensus from the team on estimates and timelines.  Gains approval and revises these plans as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

 Ability to identify risks and communicate those risks to the appropriate audience and then to facilitate the mitigation of those risks.

 Ability to bring teams/individuals together to address issues and facilitate resolution.

 Effectively applies our methodology and enforces project standards.

• EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:   

Minimum educational requirements:

 Bachelor’s degree in technology or business management fields or applicable experience

Minimum years of experience required: (Include job-related and/or supervisory experience)

 3-5 years’ experience creating project plans, scope documents, business requirements, design, testing documentation and other deliverables within a software development lifecycle methodology.

 3-5 years’ experience managing IT system projects.

 Background with data systems methodologies including design, database modeling, and ETL.

Preferred qualifications:

 Possess or has made progress towards receiving a Project Management Certification from PMI or equivalent experience.

 Bachelor’s degree in technology or business management fields

4. DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY/PROBLEM SOLVING: 

• Coordination between business peers, vendors, internal development and testing teams and management.

• Learning enough about Company specific systems/applications to have a general understanding of critical system functions, who the contacts are, and how new systems or changes might affect users or processes.

• Experience based knowledge of questions to ask, risks to consider for defining/clarifying and managing IT projects.