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ID #15710935
State California
City Culvercity
Job type Permanent
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source National Research Group
Showed 2021-06-22
Date 2021-05-27
Deadline 2021-07-26
Category Et cetera
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Project Manager, Software Development and Business Transformation

California, Culvercity, 90230 Culvercity USA

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Project Manager, Software Development and Business Transformation

Who We AreNational Research Group (NRG) is a fast-growing research and insights agency that top entertainment companies trust to decode consumer tastes and trends around the world. With the entertainment ecosystem in a period of immense change, we are looking for the best and the brightest to help shape the future of storytelling for the world’s most admired and innovative content creators.

Why You’ll Love It HereWe are inspired by working with storytellers that challenge us to think differently and see the world in new ways. As a result, our business is driven by creative, curious, and inventive people who have a passion for pop culture. We work as a collective across disciplines and geographies to bring together the best thinking for every assignment, delivering insights to bold storytellers everywhere.

The OpportunityThe Project Manager will oversee and facilitate our software development projects. In this role you will track deliverables, monitor timelines, maintain project budgets, and provide status updates to project stakeholders. We are looking for someone who is highly organized, comfortable liaising with individuals across all levels of the organization, and committed to building and improving processes.If you feel that you can make an impact through innovation and collaboration and come to work with a passion to create amazing applications that wow our clients, this is the Project Manager job for you.

The Role
  • Manage all aspects of the project including, scoping and user story design; budget creation and monitoring; timelines and deliverables; and testing and remediation
  • Create communication plans and ensure stakeholders are kept up to date on project progress
  • Manage prioritization lists and make adjustments as necessary
  • Design risk mitigation plan - Risks management and analysis
  • Conduct project review and creating detailed reports for executive staff
  • Develop and continue to refine department processes and procedures to ensure we are building scalable solutions that work for both our operational and client facing teams
  • Provide recommendations to help teams & stakeholders achieve their goals efficiently, by adopting agile best practices and tailor as needed

Wh

at Makes You Excel
  • Ability to manage deadlines and shifting priorities in a very fast-paced environment
  • Capacity to manage high stress situations. Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and an even temperament when challenges are presented
  • Ability to multi-task and manage various project elements simultaneously
  • Team player who is able to work collaboratively and initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
  • Ability to interact with employees at all levels of the company as well as external contacts
  • High attention to detail

Ideal Candidate
  • 3-5 years of project management experience
  • 4-year BA/BS degree with a strong academic record
  • PM certification or degree in Project Management
  • Knowledgeable in Lean values/concepts with software development
  • Demonstrated ability to understand complex ideas, break them down into smaller, sequential plans, while understanding interdependencies to deliver solutions
  • Uses solutions based thinking in problem solving, asking probing questions and looking for underlying issues
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills necessary to develop stories and to inform team and stakeholders
  • Business acumen and ability to understand the larger company strategy
  • Software skills, including use of Office365 and web-based applications
  • Have successfully delivered multiple enterprise level software engineering projects
  • Marketing services agency experience is a plus

Position TypeThis is a full-time, exempt position.

Required Application Materials:
  • CV/Resume
  • Cover Letter which should include:
    • Why you want to work at NRG
    • Your experience with training and/or market research

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