Agile Project Manager /  Scrum Master

Locations
Twin Cities, MN

Category

Job Type
Project Management
Contract-to-hire
We are seeking an experienced Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master, to serve as the “face” of our client’s eCommerce team.  This individual is expected to build and foster relationships with our client’s business partners, and will perform as part of a software development team for their global B2B platform.  Projects would include working with custom application developers (.Net, React, Hyper)
 
Required Qualifications
  • Highly proficient with SDLC models and more specifically Agile, with 5-10 years’ experience
  • 5+ years’ experience as a PM on software development projects in an iterative development environment
  • Highly-developed understanding and application experience of Project Management principles, concepts, practices and standards to delivery
  • Experience in software development for medical devices/capital equipment
  • Demonstrated competencies and ability to apply independently:  Self-Management, Goal Achievement, Personal Accountability, Planning & Organization, Resiliency, Flexibility, Teamwork, Leadership, Interpersonal Skills, Diplomacy & Tact, Customer Focus, Problem Solving Ability.
  • Quality System experience in a regulated industry (medical devices and pharmaceuticals preferred)
  • Project Management: PMP or SCRUM certification

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working with project management ticketing systems including Jira, Trello, or other is preferred.  
  • eCommerce / digital and medical device experience

Responsibilities for this role include:
  • Creating project timelines, and managing creative and development milestones and deliverables.
  • Fostering an environment that adapts quickly to creative change and focuses on Agile development principles.
  • Maintaining creative, production, and technical goals set forth by our teams and clients.
  • Managing overall project organization to ensure requirements and project deliverable dates can be clearly communicated to the product and account leads.
  • Managing all deliverables with any required external vendors, including translation agency.
  • Working closely with the country teams and owning the planning, execution, adaptation processes.
  • Providing production and technical knowledge, in addition to innovation insight, in order to arrive at the best-possible execution decisions.
  • Leading projects with subject matter experts, finding ways to optimize project approach and execution methods, enhancing team collaboration and identifying and resolving conflicts.
  • Managing project communication, regularly reporting progress to stakeholders and ensuring that related documents are complete and up-to-date.
  • Leading the project control activities and meetings, managing projects risks, documenting decisions and updating planning accordingly.
  • Ensuring projects follow enterprise digital standards, policies and governance.
  • Project planning, including identifying requirements, developing work plans, managing project budgets, building project schedules, and partnering with team members to determine and communicate functional and/or resource requirements.
 
Qualified Candidates must be able to:
  • Own and Manage execution against an aggressive but achievable project plan, provide project-related work direction to team members, work with peer project managers/cross- functional program team members to monitor dependencies and ensure that critical program milestones and deliverables are met.
  • Communicate project status and issues to the Program Core Team as appropriate. 
  • Proactively manage project quality, risks, and issues.
  • Provide project team members with a clear vision and purpose for the project.
  • Create a positive tone and morale for the team. 
  • Motivate team members and build project team identity and cohesion. 
  • Ensure cross-discipline coordination and communication.
  • Participate in business strategy development and execution.
  • Facilitates cross functional project related decision making.
  • Contribute to the advancement of the software organization by driving ideas for process improvement in project planning, project management and the overall product development process
  • Provide input for setting team member’s performance objectives and provide feedback to direct reports about performance against project deliverables and core competencies.  Provide ongoing feedback and coaching to team members as appropriate.  
  • Lead or leverage cross-functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage software-based projects for new product development and ongoing life-cycle management of existing products.
  • Review status of projects and budgets; manage schedules and prepare status reports.
  • Communicate with stakeholders and obtain stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the expected business problems.
  • Assume responsibility for day-to-day project planning and execution, to ensure timely completion of tasks, within compliance to the Product Development Process and Quality Management System.
  • Interface with all functional areas affected by the project, including Software Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and end users, distributors, and suppliers.
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*No third parties please.