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Youngsoft, Inc. ( www.youngsoft.com ) is a global software solutions IT company, delivering digital enterprise business betterment since 1996. Through collaborative engagement and discovery with our clients and vendors, we co-create industry specialized digital products, applications software, process, programs, and project outcomes. Headquartered in metro-Detroit, we leverage "pods" of Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Solutions Architects, Software Engineers, and Project Managers, fused with HyperCare through our Global Support Centers. Through inclusivity, we share a singular vision to deliver world-class measurable upside results to our customers. It takes a village – come join ours!
Role: This is Hybrid RemoteDescription:Plans, directs, and coordinates the activities of multiple high priority projects, or a single large project, to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters. Has overall responsibility for planning, directing, and coordinating activities for business and IT related projects. Ensures that project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives. Is responsible for managing the team that develops and carries out business or IT projects. Monitors project activities; ensuring the currency, quality, and integrity of the information; and providing consistency in content look and feel across the organization. The individual will be responsible to ensure that project results meet customer expectations and adhere to internal standards and strategies.Responsibilities:- Leadership of concurrent high priority projects or a single large project
- Management of the project team
- Management of cost, schedule, performance, quality, and risk parameters
- Assess the customer requirements; analyze the architecture of business events and data that supports the architecture; evaluates possible solutions; and presents recommendations to management
- Manages all aspects of systems analysis, design, development, installation, maintenance, and enhancement for mission-critical application systems for an assigned unit / area / or project
- Develops project resource strategies, allocating budget, staff, tools, and specialized support necessary for cost-effective implementation and customer training
- Provides positive and effective direction to project team members, and integrates activities with other business and IT departments to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts
- Ensures that application systems are developed in a way that complies with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices
- Anticipates and identifies issues inhibiting the attainment of project goals; develops and implements corrective actions as necessary
- Fosters and maintains positive rapport and good relationships with customers to ensure processes are integrated to support customer service level agreements
- Facilitates a positive team environment
- Ensures alignment of project framework to defined ITPO project and product managements standards
- Leadership skills that can energize multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs
- Strong project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing large scale projects from vision through implementation, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors
- Sound understanding of project management principles and all aspects of Project Management
- Technical knowledge with hands-on experience, managing systems development
- Strong verbal and written communications skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels and thrive in a cross-functional environment
- Excellent human resource management skills
- MS Project (scheduling and tracking – resource effort level) and MS Office tools.
- Minimum of ten years of project management:
- On projects that require daily participation from team members in multiple countries.
- Where development teams are located in separate locations and/or countries
- Where core Subject Matter Experts are in multiple locations
- Ten years of project management, demonstrating leadership skills and possessing a track record of managing technical staff and financial resources through various life-cycle phases (cross-functional experience highly desirable)
- Experience in Effective Project Implementation / Deployment strategies with a customer base distributed throughout the US and Canada.
- Experience in Supply Chain processes including: Forecast to Order and Production to Delivery processes.
- Working knowledge with the application of formal methodologies, for implementation of Information Systems and associated Business Transformation/Change Management.
- Experience in highly parallel work environments with projects utilizing iterative, incremental, and waterfall approaches to achieve their objectives.
- Experience in the both business transformation and information technology projects is required
- More than ten or more years of leadership experience in which one or more of the following occurred:
- Demonstrated strong abilities in relationship management
- Successfully developed and implemented applications in new computing architecture environments, using new and emerging technologies
- Demonstrated ability to manage multidiscipline, high-performance work teams and development groups
- Demonstrated competency in the execution of projects
- Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience is required (Master's degree or equivalent is desirable)
- PMP certification is required
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