This role will lead and manage software development projects for our group of companies. The PM role will facilitate the successful implementation of projects by working closely with business partners, internal development teams, other IT resources and vendors. This role requires understanding of the business, each project's detailed objectives and immersion in the project work.
Key Responsibilities:
Leads, manages, tracks, and identifies project tasks, risks, and issues
Is responsible for follow up and resolution of risks and issues
Defines contingency and mitigation plans
Develops and updates project plans
Facilitates estimating effort for project tasks
Resolves issues and facilitates solutions
Regularly communicates project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders
Updates project scope, timeline, and budget
Establishes and adjusts priorities to achieve the best business outcomes
Delivers end-to-end solution design with business partner alignment
Brings project decisions to business partners and the project team, outlines options and facilitates decision-making
Documents project decisions
Collaborates with business partners, software developers, interface engineers and infrastructure teams and third-party partners to accomplish project objectives
Delegates project tasks to appropriate resources
Ensures high quality, on time deliverables
Prepares outline and approach for required user training and collaborates with analysts and business partners to deliver training
Leads acquisition projects to migrate data and infrastructure onto internal platforms
Updates and improves the acquisitions playbook
Delivers high value business outcomes
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, relevant professional experience
Strong people leading and mentoring skills
Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills
Strong organizational and time management skills
Collaborator with a customer-centric focus
Understanding of the full software development lifecycle
Experience implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems and/or web-delivered applications
Experience leading projects with code development, as well as configurations
Strong project management experience in software development and/or infrastructure project management at a consultant level
Experience leading people and evaluating teams
Has managed projects from kick-off to go live
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
Understanding of, or direct experience with, data conversions
Understanding of, or direct experience with, core business functions such as eCommerce, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Receipts, Sales, Purchasing and General Ledger. Bonus for experience in Dealership functions, Rentals, Fleet Service, Vehicle sales and Parts sales counter processes