Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master

Our client is a signature Pacific Northwest brand seeking a candidate for a combined PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER position. Extensive agile background required. Must be capable of leading highly complex projects and phases of complex projects for a business unit or functional area.

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Coordinates or participates in all phases of the project life cycle, including planning, design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, training and closure.
- Ensures that the project achieves the expected results within time and on budget.
- May direct the work of others.
- Ensures effective ongoing communication throughout the project.
- Meets with key managers to coordinate meetings, assignments and deadlines.
- Communicates changes to appropriate parties. Identifies issues and resolves or escalates them as appropriate.
- Gathers, organizes, analyzes and reports information in support of moderately complex projects to improve profitability, reduce costs, streamline operations or enhance customer service.
- Represents business unit, department or functional area on cross-functional project teams.
- Tracks progress towards achievement of project goals.
- Facilitates complex team meetings involving business and technical resources.
- Demonstrates credibility as an IT partner to ensure business and technology decisions are reached to support business goals and objectives.
- Maintains project documentation and prepares activity reports on the project's status, timeline and budgets.
- May provide some limited functional support for the department, but generally handles only project responsibilities.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

- Minimum of 10 years' direct work experience in a project leadership capacity, preferably with a Big 4 consulting firm or in a senior position in industry
- Demonstrated experience implementing large ERP solutions (Oracle preferred)
- Specific functional/technical subject matter expertise to the project, as applicable, Oracle Manufacturing (Process/Discrete), Oracle Transportation Management, Supply/Demand Planning, WMS, Finance, HR
- Proven experience managing complex projects from conception to completion with limited guidance; experience across the entire delivery life cycle (SDLC)
- Demonstrated ability to command the attention and respect of senior level leaders and confidently make presentations to large and executive audiences
- Moderate/Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Project
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Minimum of an undergraduate degree from a recognized institution; MBA or equivalent desirable
- PMP/PMI certification, Six Sigma or equivalent preferred

SCRUM MASTER SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Responsible for the team's adoption of Scrum and practice of it
- Ensure Scrum Framework is followed including required meetings and artifacts
- Use inspect and adapt with team to constantly improve performance and responsiveness
- Coordinate and facilitate Scrum meetings such as, daily standup, sprint planning, release planning, and sprint retrospectives
- Remove any obstacles which are blocking or slowing down the teams
- Identify and coordinate dependencies with external teams
- Provide visibility to team status and issues to senior management
- Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation
- Mentor team members on agile software development principles and practices
- Coordinate and schedule the execution of deliverables across multiple teams

SCRUM QUALIFICATIONS:

- Proven experience with large complex enterprise level IT implementations required
- Demonstrated Scrum Master experience in an Agile software development life cycle environment
- Experience with an offshore software development model highly desirable
- Experience leading the transition from waterfall to Agile highly desirable