Position: Technical PM #11989
Company: Lohika
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our customer is a global management consulting firm. Its clients are leading organization in public, private and social sectors all over the world. We are seeking a Project/Release Manager for project that pertains to the marketing and sales area. The goal of the project is building brand new solution that will help apparel and department store retailers optimally plan and execute prices & promotions through a season.


MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Act as a project manager for project delivered by several scrum team

· Take responsibility for making key and fast decisions to ensure the successful implementation of all initiatives together with determination of team focus both short/long terms.

· Working in strong collaboration with the multiple stakeholders and scrum teams

· Assist in the definition of project scope, objectives, requirements involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility

· Influence on the final product look by the proper discussions of future functionality together with product owner, business analyst

· Lead the certain release pipeline and streams within those: scope analysis, capacity calculation, managing dependencies, release scope proposal, risk management, process monitoring, release progress tracking, bugs triage process, etc.

· Release Management

· Reporting: sprint level, release level, agenda level

· KPIs / metrics creation and monitoring

· Managing the team’s goals

· Working on team`s \ overall group continuous improvement principals in processes (dev, test, delivery, etc.) — from the initial idea to the actual implementation and monitoring of the output results

· Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed

· Documentation of the applied processes

EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Must have:

· Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or similar

· 5+ years of commercial experience as a Project Manager

· Strong experience managing project delivery projects in Agile.

· Strong Release Management experience

· Strong technical background (Web, Data, cloud)

· Experience building data analytical solutions is a plus

· Solid experience of working with requirements and good understanding of requirements lifecycle and project scope.

· Product Manager/Business Analyst experience (marketing and sales domain is a plus)

· Good understanding of Functional and Technical Specifications, Design Documentation, Development, QA processes, source control, maintenance, and deployment procedures

· Strong risk management experience and reporting

· Strong negotiations skills

· Excellent teamwork skills with an ability to get the work done with minimal supervision.

· Solid knowledge of stakeholder management practices

· Excellent communication verbal and written skills

· English: Upper-intermediate and higher

PERSONAL COMPETENCIES

· Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.

· Strong time-management skills.

· A flexible team player with a positive attitude.

· Ability to work in fixed price enterprise projects under time pressure.