Project Manager
Job Title: Project Manager
Department: Product Management
Location: Tampa, FL
Summary of Duties & Responsibilities
The Project Manager is responsible for project planning, organization and delivery of product development initiatives under the guidance of the respective Product Director.
Essential Functions
- Work with senior stakeholder to clearly understand the business objectives
- Facilitate the estimating process for approved software development initiatives
- Develop a viable plan to deliver newly approved software development initiatives with input from key stakeholders, software engineering and quality assurance leadership
- Identify resources required to support the project plan and work with the Product Director to schedule the appropriate resources
- Manage a software development initiative from approval to final release
- Ensure project team’s alignment with the Release Management process and schedules
- Develop the appropriate project tracking and status reporting mechanisms to deliver each project on time and on budget
- Communicate tasks, timelines and logistics to internal and external team members
- Schedule prioritized software product backlog across the respective Product team, in balance with ongoing software development initiatives
- Set up and maintain software development projects in company project systems
- Attend critical implementation meetings, including workshops, testing sessions and steering committee meetings per the project plan
- Complete weekly timesheets and expense reports on a timely basis
- Complete Project Status reporting on a timely and regular basis
- Keep immediate supervisor and Product Director informed of all relevant issues and concerns, and identify potential mitigating steps
- Foster a positive and team-oriented work environment for the respective product team
- Ensure compliance with all company and group policies and procedures
Skills & Competencies
Proficient to advanced abilities for the below:
- Experience delivering at least three complex distributed systems (ERP, custom-built, business intelligence) from requirements to production in a traditional on-premise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task
- Attention to detail with a focus on thoroughness, accuracy and consistency
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to develop professional and compelling collateral
- Ability to lead others and motivate the team with a positive and confident personal style
- Strong drive to pursue forward progress and accountability while delivering results
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a high aptitude to learn
- Knowledge and experience with software development methodologies, including waterfall and agile
- Ability to identify and formulate mitigation strategies for project issues and risk
- Ability to work successfully in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
- Flexibility and willingness to help in other areas as priorities shift
- Proficiency in all Microsoft Office products
- Experience using JIRA or Azure Dev Ops
- Awareness of Earned Value Management concepts
Education or Prior Work Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5-8 years in software development project management
Reports to
Group or Team Manager
Number Supervised
0
Travel
Some travel possible, but not extensive
Classification
Exempt
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand. walk. use hands to finger, handle or feel. and reach with hands and arms.
