Project / Program Management Consultant/Expert

V2Soft (www.v2soft.com) is a global company, headquartered out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with locations in Mexico, Italy, India, China and Germany. At V2Soft, our mission is to provide high performance technology solutions to solve real business problems. We become our customer's true partner, enabling both parties to enjoy success. We are committed to promoting diversity in the workplace, and believe it has a positive effect on our company and the customers we serve.

Description:

Skills Required:

• Define and implement best practices, standardize processes and tools within the Data Organization to ensure an effective and efficient program management office drives successful implementation of key initiatives

• Manage the data transformation program governance structure

• Manage the global prioritization of the data solution demands and balance with key enterprise objectives

• Perform initial assessment on initiatives and work with product teams to determine estimate and effort; including reviewing, critiquing, and validating requirement specifications

• Coordinate cross functional teams to define release content, priorities, and dependencies

• Manage changes, risks, issues, mitigation planning, and contingency planning

• Define and maintain strategy and roadmap for Data Platform, in alignment with business needs and data strategy transformation

• Drive, track progress, and report out on key initiatives to program governance and stakeholders at various levels. Including maintaining scorecards and status reports for multiple leadership levels.

• Identify integration conflicts and issues with global and cross portfolio initiatives and ensures they are brought into the proper governance level

• Define, analyze, and provision key performance metrics to leadership requests

• Participate, prepare, and facilitate in Agile/SAFe Ceremonies

• Rally/JIRA Administrator for the portfolio; User maintenance, data integrity, consistency

Skills Preferred:

• 8+ years of program management experience

Experience Required:

• Portfolio and Program Management

• Managing complex programs from inception to launch

• Managing transformation programs that span across multiple product teams

• Risk management, mitigation, and contingency planning

• Change and issue management; along with dependency identification

• Demand management and managing / refining backlogs

• Creating strategic roadmaps and working with cross-functional teams

• Strong leadership skills

• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills for working in a global environment

• Empathy and care for customers and teams

• Detail orientated, including strong prioritization and organizational skills

• Ability to multi-task, manage changing priorities and adapt quickly to changing demands

• Strong Facilitation skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience in all phases of the development life cycle and familiarity with agile practices

Experience Preferred:

• Org Change Management

Education Required:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or a related discipline

Education Preferred:

• Nice to have: Google Cloud Digital Leader certification.

V2Soft is an Equal Opportunity Employer ( EOE).

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