Senior Project Manager - Software Product implementation - Hybrid in MA- No C2C

The Product Implementation Manager is a critical senior-level role to oversee all stages of product lifecycle management. 
This role focuses on

• project management
• resource planning
• risk identification
• mitigation and budget oversight.

Duties:
 

• work closely with one or more product owners through the implementation phases of the product development lifecycle management process.
• As product development and implementation activity spans the business organization, IT and Vendor delivery, this role calls for expertise in relationship management as well as program level task coordination and management.
• Support the product owner and business stakeholders.
• Oversee schedule and ensures project deliverables are produced on schedule.
• Identify and mitigate risk, by assigning ownership and tracking risk mitigation activity
• Conduct regular collaborative project reviews during implementation.
• Determine when to invoke and invokes change control (time, scope, cost).
• Align component tasks and work streams to master plan and schedule.
• Keep initial implementation phases grounded in schedule, ensures resources are available and tasks and milestones occur on schedule.
• Document and assign ownership of risk items, maintains project documentation.
• Ensure initiative is ready for stage gate review and all required documentation is complete.
• Coordinate phase activities to adhere to plan stages and timelines.
• Complete\ high-level Implementation plan.
• Conduct regular status check-ins with IT and Vendors to inform master schedule and budget.
• Escalates project deviation from plan to product owner and other leads
• Invoke change control as required
• Record and communicate cost variances.
• Manage completion and synchronization of non-IT workstreams and tasks to support product.
• Manage post go live tasks to ensure transition to steady state.

Qualifications:

• 1. Understand PLM Methodology, the related process flow and resources required for each stage, be able to take a standardized plan and adopt it for a particular initiative.
  2. Be experienced with Agile and waterfall SDLC projects, multi-vendor coordination and managing distributed resources.
  3. Have experience preparing a resource-based budget and tracking actual costs/resources used during the project and comparing that run rate to the planned run rate.
  4. Demonstrate excellent communication skills and experience presenting to all levels of stakeholders and project participants
  5. Be experienced creating a risk register and assigning ownership and tracking status of noted risk items. From experience, be able to call out risk items for discussion and inclusion in risk plan.
  6. Be experienced in the planning phases of large projects, particularly in building charters, clarifying and articulating participant role definition, conducting project planning and initiation workshops or work sessions.
  7. Be able to effectively partner with the internal product owner.
  8. Be experienced with change control.
  9. Be able to recognize issues and escalate appropriately.
  10. Be able to succinctly and accurately communicate status through use of status dashboards and discussion.

• PMP preferred but not required