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*Title: Project Manager * *Duration: Long Term * *( Need local consultant for face to face requirement ) * *Location: **Chicago IL* *Job Description:* · Significant Experience with Agile project management and Implementing/Building Agile teams. Significant experience using JIRA software. Very strong with MS Project Proficient in MS Office (including Excel), MS Visio. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business, management information systems, or related field; Scrum Master Certification required, Project Management (PMP) certification, or ability to achieve PMP certification within one year · Ideal scenario is for the candidate to be in Chicago but we are open to remote candidates as the team is spread out. Please specify your candidate's location in the submittal notes. Ability to travel and work extended hours as needed. (Travel will be minimal - Just travel for the kick off/onboarding in Chicago and maybe one or two trips through the year when we get the team together.) · Project team is implementing a modified version of Agile, so the ideal candidate must have significant experience with the Agile project management framework. Agile is relatively new for the project team, so the candidate must also have a proven track record of successfully building Agile teams from the ground up, instilling the Agile principals and culture within the team. · Client projects involve complex analytics, so the ideal candidate will be a quick learner, able to understand analytics at a macro level in order to effectively understand dependencies between project tasks. Our business is growing with many things needing to be done, so the ideal candidate must have a bias towards action and effectively get things done. Ideal qualities of the candidate include: - Project management knowledge and experience; Commitment to keeping leadership apprised of project status, anticipated difficulties and potential solutions. - Agile Project Management: Significant Experience with Agile project management and Implementing/Building Agile teams. *Significant experience using JIRA software.* Leader and Change Agent: Proven success in building agile teams. Can Shepard a team to adopt new processes and ways of working. Emotionally intelligent. Creative: Proven success in the creation, documentation and implementation of operational processes. Proven ability to work independently to create solutions to problems with minimal guidance. Organized: Proven ability to develop project plans with realistic timing and resource requirements. Very detail oriented. Has an effective system for tracking work to be done, and following up with team to ensure it gets done. Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Effective at converting discussions to actions items to completed tasks. Strong “doer” mind set: effective at getting things done. Operations mind set: passionate about creating detailed processes to drive efficiency. Can quickly follow newly implemented processes and also implement processes for a team to follow. Loves checklists to ensure nothing falls through the cracks. Growth Mind-set: Believes he/she can learn anything with the right amount of effort, and makes the effort to learn quickly. Proactively ask questions to unfamiliar subjects. Takes ownership; does not make excuses. Comfortable admitting what he/she doesn’t know. *Additional requirements:* - 10+ years of experience - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business, management information systems, or related field; - Scrum Master Certification required - Project Management (PMP) certification, or ability to achieve PMP certification within one year - Very strong with MS Project - Proficient in MS Office (including Excel), MS Visio. - Significant Experience with Agile project management and Implementing/Building Agile teams. - Significant experience using JIRA software. *Description:* Seeking an experienced manager to lead and own day to day operational processes for a 20+ person team that is executing a portfolio of client project, ensuring that projects are running smoothly and hitting deadlines. Project teams include actuaries and software developers. *Thanks and Regards* *Manish Srivastava* *Sr. Technical Recruiter* *IDC Technologies, Inc.* *408-844-3778* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "American Vendor--IT Consulting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sap-vendor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sap-vendor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sap-vendor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.