Title: Sr. IT Project Manager Duration: 6+ Months with possibilities of extension Location: Kansas City, MO 64150 POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

　　Project Initiation

　　Work with technical and business leaders to define project investment opportunities, including scope, schedule, budget, and benefits

　　Identify and negotiate project resource requirements with delivery organizations (internal & external), set delivery expectations, and evaluate delivery performance

　　Project Delivery

　　Direct accountability for planning and executing one or more Agile or Waterfall projects as solution scope requires to project performance criteria (on time, within scope, on budget, and meeting quality standards) as defined in the project statement(s)

　　Develop project estimate basis using Agile software development estimation techniques

　　Advanced project management practical expertise across knowledge areas: scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk and procurement and integration management

　　Work with Product and resource owners to identify internal and external stakeholders, and then lead stakeholders management activities throughout the project life cycle

　　Own the development and review of project requirements with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Technical Leads to ensure project will deliver to the planned benefits

　　Facilitate interactions between Technical Leads, Project Delivery Staff, and QE Leads to ensure that project delivery and testing completion are aligned

　　Facilitate cross-departmental project delivery activities, and gain commitment for delivery while managing competing demands, to ensure that project delivery dates are not compromised

　　Plan project implementations, facilitate implementation dry runs, and lead Go live activities to ensure production implementations do not adversely impact the production environment

　　Escalate material issues and risks to leadership in a timely fashion

　　Ensure that Organizational Change Management activities are completed to drive product adoption

　　Ensure that Transition to Support is planned for, completed, and approved so that the support organization can support all new or modified systems

　　Project Controls

　　Follow IS PMO processes regarding deliverables, stage gates, and controls in accordance with SOX and management controls compliance

　　Create and maintain project financials across project cost budget managed in SAP, PPM and Excel; provide accurate and timely project financial submissions

　　Develop, monitor and control all aspects of project delivery in accordance with Client IS PMO and project management best practices

　　Develop, and support the development, of presentations to senior management regarding project scope, schedule, budget, and current status updates.

　　Team Leadership

　　Provide project leadership: set clear goals, engage team members, resolve conflict and recognize team member contributions appropriately

　　Conduct regular lessons learned sessions to ensure continuous improvement of project teams.

　　Excellent communication, organizational, multitasking, problem solving and negotiating skills

　　Appreciating and understanding how to deal with different cultural values and sensitivities

　　Ability to rapidly adapt, set priorities and respond to changes in fast-paced environment;

　　Self-starter, the successful candidate demonstrates strong accountability and pride of ownership to deliver quality solutions

　　POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

　　Significant experience leading large, multi-stakeholder information systems projects;

　　Post-secondary education (University, College), in Commerce/Business, Engineering, Technology or Computer Science;

　　Demonstrated expertise of project management planning tools (MS Project preferred) and associated MS Office products (such as; Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

　　Experience / successful track record, working in a team-oriented environment (demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships)

　　Managed Software and Technology Development, and/or Application Integration projects using primary Iterative, Agile or Waterfall Project methodologies

　　Decision and problem solving at the root cause and complexity level

　　Experience in understanding business / technical strategies and communicating these needs to the governing bodies, to ensure programs / projects and services are delivered as agreed.

　　Lead statement of work (SOW) development, participate in contract negotiations, and manage Vendors and materials delivery

　　PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

　　Project Management Professional certificate (PMP)

　　Rapidly learn new business processes and operating practices, and apply this knowledge to improve project planning and delivery

　　SAP Systems and Hire-to-Retire process/technology experience is a plus.

　　Bilingual in English and Spanish and/or experience working on Canada, US, and Mexico ERP/SAP implementations

　　Experience managing projects with complex data model and data integrations

　　Business acumen, coupled with technology, in the following areas:

　　Design-to-Deliver

　　Record-to-Report

　　Procure-to-Pay

　　Lead-to-Cash

　　Hire-to-Retire

　　Acquire-to-Dispose (Asset Management)

　　Corporate Services