Contractor Agile Project Manager

Important Skills:

• Scrum Master and PM experience.
• Real agile experience - Must be able to coach a team
• Cloud data platform experience-
• Marketing and customer analytics experience-
• Retail industry experience
• Ability to be onsite part of the time is a plus
• Skills & Qualifications:
• Strong hands-on project management & Scrum Master skills - at least 5 years of experience managing complex IT efforts.
• Management of large teams with members working in multiple locations.
• Experience structuring work into various workstreams within a large project and managing multiple IT projects concurrently.
• Strong applied use of PM & Scrum tools/techniques (planning, risk management, budgeting, cost control, assessment, software/SaaS acquisition/RFP, develop & management of Jira board, Scrum ceremonies, etc.).
• Experience with vendor contracts and vendor management.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), English-language skills, facilitation skills, etc. and ability to represent work at all levels of the organization (up to Executive levels).
• Excellent people skills developing strong relationships, building a trusting team environment, and ability to listen & translate into actionable plans.
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  Experience with the following is desired, but not mandatory:
  • Cloud Data Platforms in support of Marketing, Customer Analytics & Personalization in an omni-channel retail environment.
  • WorkOtter, Jira, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.
  • Understand business process transformation and change management practices