Role Description

This role is responsible for planning, managing, and overseeing the successful launch and successful adoption of several new tools to be used by a large set of cross-functional, technically minded employees. Responsible for establishing/building, tracking, maintaining and proactively fixing/improving relevant systems, process flows, dashboards, reports, end user instructions, training and adoption efforts, project communications, and the budget/forecast, to communicate and optimize project success. This position is remote.

Responsibilities

• Manages the entire project lifecycle from project definition through implementation.
• Manages multiple projects and programs and orchestrates the results to achieve a broad program goal.
• Aligns project delivery with broader strategic initiatives and goals.
• Accountable for meeting agreed upon scope, cost, schedule and quality measures.
• Ensure that governance controls are in place.
• Develops project plan and drives project milestones.
• Coaches project owners on gathering and writing initial requirements.
• Establishes effective communication plan with project team and key stakeholders.
• Provides day-to-day direction to project resources.
• Identify, track and report program KPIs to assess impact.
• Coordinate, manage and monitor workflow of the cross-functional teams.
• Provide and perform quality assurance checks on project artifacts and deliverables.
• Facilitate and lead project meetings and discussions with stakeholders at all levels.
• Create appropriate documentation to communicate program status/risks/needs.
• Develops and delivers training sessions on process for moving tickets through development cycle.
• Consistently exercise informed judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Maintains project intake queue for reviewing project requirements and determining impacted development teams.
• Utilizes multiple data sets to provide meaningful analyses on enterprise efficiency and impact of initiatives.
• Transforms raw data by cleaning, joining, aggregating and implementing business logic.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-7 years of project and/or program management expertise.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience building project budgets/forecasts and KPIs, and analyzing processes to identify areas of optimization and improvement.
• 2 - 5 years of experience with training delivery.
• Strong knowledge of project and program management methodology and techniques.
• Working knowledge of various software development methodologies, especially basic SDLC.
• Ability to work positively with a wide range of individuals.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder, and management skills, coupled with ability to individually contribute all duties and responsibilities outlined here.
• Superior oral and written communication skills with ability to build project assets.
• Excellent oral and written communications, interpersonal, negotiation, project planning, judgment, leadership, decision-making, analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable facilitating large meetings and driving agendas.
• Proven experience with Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Visio, JQL, etc.
• Ability to analyze multiple data sets to provide operational insights to leadership.
• Intermediate data transformation with Tableau Prep, Alteryx, or SQL.
• Intermediate proficiency with Tableau or other data visualization tools.
• Strong analytics and reporting skills.
• Ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems.
• Ability to process information quickly and present it in a succinct and insightful format suitable for executives.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree required preferably in Business, IT, Computer Science, or Finance.
• PMP certification is helpful.

Compensation

Sand Cherry Associates based in Denver, CO is required by state law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and delivery model. This is a long term consulting engagement, with a yearly salary range of $100,000 - $120,000. Years of experience, level of education, geographic location, unique skills/qualifications for the specific role and potential certifications can be key factors in the final compensation for this role.