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- The PM will assist in leading high profile, complex projects, while helping to facilitate successful agile delivery using a combination of Lean/Agile practices.
- The ideal candidate will have Agile experience along with experience facilitating cross-team planning to help mature our delivery capabilities, promote alignment, and predictability through transparency and identification/coordination of dependencies and risks.
- Candidates should have success in delivering IT projects and managing vendor engagements within a complex and rapidly changing environment working closely with business and IT stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
- Client’s IT is an exciting and fun environment that values respect for people, innovation, teamwork, and accountability where our client experience and outcomes drive our decisions.
- This position is hybrid, working a combination of remote and in-office in our new collaborative work space. Client offer a collaborative culture with a continuous learning, agile/lean environment and adding value to the business.
- Effectively takes projects inclusive of all aspects from original concept through final implementation
- Applies agile project methodology on enterprise projects including planning, organizing, monitoring, risk management, managing budget, project closure activities, and enforcing best practices
- Manages the integration of vendor tasks, and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables as part of a consolidated project plan
- Provides structure to milestones and leads the organization to achieve them
- Structures and facilitates effective meetings and ensures a focus on achieving the necessary outcomes
- Navigates group and organizational dynamics including identifying issues that may impact project outcomes and aggressively works to resolve conflict leading through roadblocks, and escalating in a timely manner to ensure no surprises
- Leads teams and manages stakeholders effectively through influence and engagement
- Efficiently identifies and removes roadblocks to project execution.
- Evokes creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas to fruition
- Models developing relationships across organization, leveraging them to work through barriers
- Possesses the expert knowledge to identify opportunities for change and the ability to convey the need for change
- Exhibits extensive knowledge of current and emerging project management practices and applies them in projects
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the project related structure of required vendors related to project outcomes
- Fosters engagement in project milestones sharing key information to achieve outcomes
- Responsible for all project communications to leadership, the stakeholder community, and project team
- Proactively understands how and when to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
- Build the required project structure including concept, oversight, communication, and the team
- Identifies and works with Resource Managers to acquire necessary team members in a matrix environment
- Creates Project Charter, facilitates definition of scope, and milestone deliverables inclusive of vendor related contracts.
- A minimum of seven years of prior IT project management experience and three years in Financial Services preferred.
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business Administration, or Finance is preferred.
- Demonstrates ability to handle multiple/simultaneous projects on an ongoing basis
- Detail oriented and possess exceptional organizational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and leadership skills, ability to influence without authority in a matrix environment
- Experience in various project methodologies and project lifecycle/portfolio management – Agile experience is preferred
- Ability to work on critical projects with a variety of teams and leaders, proving your ability to influence and make business impact through providing technology solutions
- Information technology is a core part of Baird’s business strategy and plays a critical role in the growth and transformation of the firm
- Computer World Best Company to Work For with collaborative culture that values diverse backgrounds and perspectives while emphasizing teamwork and a strong sense of partnership
- Team of associates passionate about achieving great results for clients and give back to the communities where we live and work.
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