Project Manager - Data Steward

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Job Title: Project Manager - Data Steward

Pay Rate: Up to $70.00 / hr Depending on Experience

Location: Creve Coeur, MO

ZIP Code: 63141

Start Date: Right Away

Keywords: #ProjectManagerJobs #DataStewardshipJobs

The Crop Science Information and Data Assets team is looking for a project manager to be part of our Data Governance & Stewardship organization. The candidate will manage and provide oversight of dependencies across several complex efforts that span multiple functions across the organization. The ideal candidate should have experience working in customer-facing roles and understand the commercial and supply chain operations of a large corporation. The project manager will need to coordinate with other project and program managers to understand dependencies and ensure they are tightly managed.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide project management for assigned projects

• Will oversee cross-dependencies of very complex projects that may span multiple functions.

• Facilitate initiation, scoping, planning and execution

• Build and/or maintain project execution plan/charter, including approach, scope, tasks, duration, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile, team structuring, staffing, resource allocation, and deliverable definitions

• Maintain and abide by project governance

• Facilitate meetings, capture key action items and context of meetings. Maintain paper trail of decision that impact projects.

• Anticipate and resolve issues and risks

• Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate program and steering committee leadership

• Adhere to the project"s communication plan and ensure compliance with all reporting requirements including communication of project status to all project stakeholders including steering committees and executives

• Measure project progress against agreed upon objectives and success criteria

• Perform financial oversight and analysis

• Ensure adherence to established project management standards and tools

• Coach, mentor and manage project team members as needed

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor"s degree

• 10 or more years of IT or business experience

• Experience in Agile development

• 8-10 or more years of experience managing a variety of full lifecycle application development/integration projects including ERP, Software as a Service, Web, and Information Security projects

• Proven leadership and influence skills including the ability to influence when there is no direct reporting relationship

• Experience leading large applications development/integration projects or programs across multiple countries/functions

• Experience in managing medium to large sized projects across multiple disciplines and/or teams

• Knowledge or understanding of software development lifecycle principles and methodologies

• Ability to build networks and relationships at all levels of the organization

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills

• Superior negotiation skills

• Strong team orientation, collaboration skills, and interpersonal skills

• Strong results orientation

• Expertise in defining and improving processes

• Ability to make difficult decisions and to involve others sufficiently in the decision-making process

Desired skills/education/experience/attributes (ideal candidate):

• Project Management certification

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