Job Description

IT PROJECT MANAGER – RETAIL

iTalent is seeking an IT Project Manager to join our emerging Retail Practice group in San Francisco. This is an exciting role and the individual selected will help our leading retail client reach their strategic initiatives for the remainder of 2020 and beyond. 

This person would also interact closely with our iTalent Retail Practice Directors as well as senior leaders in our retail client’s organization.

As a Project Manager, you'll have excellent relationship building, leadership, project and team management skills and the ability to deliver business results with quality. You will bring a breadth of experience that will make you a valuable contributing member of the project team and not just a task driver and status provider. This is an exciting area of the company delivering cutting edge solutions to our stores. 

REQUIREMENTS:

• Have experience with Agile methodologies – running scrum and well versed with JIRA.
• As a Project Manager, you'll take the lead as you work with both internal and external stakeholders ensuring all milestones are tracked and reported.
• The ability to speak cogently, possess strong business acumen and ability to influence cross-collaborative teams are essential for these roles.
• Have experience with Agile, Scrum and Jira.
• As a Project Manager, you'll take the lead as you...
• Plan, schedule, estimate, coordinate, manage, and deliver the projects within our waterfall and agile hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Ensure development and project processes are followed for successful implementations (for planning, implementation, testing) and ensure that exceptions to the process be transparent with risks understood and approved at appropriate organizational levels.
• Oversee the daily progress of the digital projects with regard to time, budget, scope, and quality.
• Understand downstream impact of issues and effectively and proactively inform and escalate to key stakeholders.
• Proactively and aggressively manage project risk and issues; defining mitigation efforts.
• Represent the PMO and PMO expectations within the project team.