Sr Technical Project Manager

I am Kishore from TechnoGen Inc looking for Sr Technical Project Manager for one of our clients. Below is the job description for your review.Please let me know if you would be interested and share your updated resume.
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Sr Technical Project Manager

12 Months Contract

Location: Dallas TX(Hybrid)

Notes:

• Must haves: experience working on data projects as well as custom development projects.
• Preferred Skills: Need to understand PI planning and agile. Prefer people who have been Scrum Masters and folks who understand SAFe Agile

Job Description:

The Sr. Technical Project Manager will be supporting the Contract Procurement 360 / Contract Performance teams to help with build data pipelines and reporting. The objective is to build/utilize data dashboards to manage and enforce rebate schedules with vendors to maximize savings. This Sr. PM needs to have strong stakeholder management and communication skills as well as experience on dataoriented projects.

Project Management Duties:

• Project Manage across the 3 distinct teams (Contract 360 Contract Performance and Product Management) which comprise the overall program.
• Own the coordination and completion of an endtoend project plan.
• Support the Delivery Leader through all duties to support the overall execution of the project/initiative. This includes driving collaboration alignment and integrated delivery for a given project/initiative.
• Document scope timeline resource plan and stakeholders.
• Lead the project team through each phase of the project.
• Identify and manage all issues and risks on the project; escalate items timely.
• Ensure that all the project tasks and deliverables remain on track and within cost.
• Manage the project folder and related documentation ensuring decisions and status updates are captured timely.
• Communicate and maintain project progress and decisions via meetings and status reports on a regular basis and on demand based on stakeholder need.
• Establish and manage realistic and committed project schedules; taking into consideration deadlines dependencies resources and costs when making changes and decisions to schedule.
• Ensure that the Project Team shares a common understanding of the project that adequate resources are being applied consistent with the set timeframe.
• Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables from the Project Sponsor and Stakeholders as required for the given project.
• Establish a project site and organize and maintain project documentation to support needs.
• Track financial spend against budget on third party purchases where needed.
• Maintain stakeholder list develop communication plans and assist with creating communications deliverables as needed.
• Use the following technologies: Microsoft: Teams SharePoint Outlook Excel and PowerPoint; Jira and Confluence
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
• Adjust project management approaches as needed based on industry best practices and professional judgement.
• Facilitate discussions to drive decision making share information and collect information as required by the project.
• Proactively manage change control and communicate impact in project scope identify risks/issues and devising contingency plans.

Deliverables for each Project to be created and/or maintained.

• Lean Business Case (justification deliverables milestones level of effort by resource type budget schedule)
• High level Gantt chart and detailed project workplan/Schedule
• Stakeholder List
• Communications Plan
• Resource Schedule
• Weekly Status Updates
• Executive Updates (e.g. PPTs) as needed (frequency TBD)
• Issue/Risk Log
• Project budget/forecast
• Others as required based on business need.

Must have experience:

• 7 years of IT project management especially with creating deliverables outlined above.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Previous experience with data oriented and custom development projects.
• Experience with PM oversight of process development.
• Experience at communicating at all levels (team to executive)
• Understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Confluence and Jira experience
• Proven working experience in project management through all facets of project lifecycle.
• Proven track record to drive results and navigating challenges successfully.
• Sr. PMs should have experience coordinating work across PMs in a matrix environment able to provide roll up of status and metric reporting have exceptional issue management skills and have experience defining roles and responsibilities on projects to bring clarity on the accountability of work across team members.
• data analytics background or process automation background

Key Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with SAFe Agile
• Experience working as a scrum master or product owner.
• Proven ability to translate sprint iterations into project schedules.
• Knowledge/Experience in PI Planning
• Excellent Communication oral and written.
• Ability to lead teams through planned schedules and proactively address issues/risks.
• Proficient in creating effective PowerPoint presentations.
• Flexible to be in details and at summarized/highlevel.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools methodologies and best practices; McKesson uses Jira Smartsheet Teams O365
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Effective resource estimating skills.