Thursday, November 10, 2011

2 REKS:Project manager/Business Analyst And Program Manager


I have an urgent direct client requirement  for an Project manager/Business Analyst. Please send matching resumes with contact info.

Please send your resumes to amit@esystems-inc.com


Position : Project manager/Business Analyst
Location:    San Francisco, CA
Duration:4+ Months


A MUST SKILLS :

To support the legal department implementing a vendor management system. Would like the resource to work with the business project team to tackle the following deliverable:
Business requirements
Project plan & resource plan
Business process as-is state documentation
Business process future state design documentation
Product gap
Testing plan
Operational procedures
Implementation
Strength of the candidate should be business process analysis and design. No legal domain knowledge is required. Understanding of AP processes and Ariba is a plus.
Role/Purpose:
Responsible for managing internal project from initiation through delivery, including planning and budgeting, project control and status reporting, team management, and related troubleshooting and problem resolution to ensure completion of assigned projects on schedule and within budget.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Develops and maintains project plan and schedule utilizing corporate standard PM software (MS Project). Assists team members in planning, estimating, and controlling tasks. Ensures that interfaces are recognized and tasks are integrated. Performs critical path analysis and develops action plans to mitigate risk. Identifies and implements alternative solutions
Defines project resource plan, including internal and contract resources.
Develops the business case for technology projects.
Monitors project to ensure completion within defined schedule, budget, and quality parameters
Effectively communicates with stakeholders to ensure satisfaction with project management services and product delivery. Works proactively with the client to resolve critical issues. Develops strong client and stakeholder relationships and maintains effective communication channels. Defines practices and processes for managing client and stakeholder expectations.
Effectively leads and manages internal and external project resources. Negotiates assignment of critical resources and assigns responsibilities. Delegates and empowers others and removes obstacles. Maintains open communication among project team members and leads project review meetings. Instrumental in helping team members establish healthy, collaborative relationships. Maintains enthusiasm, energy and focus in a variety of circumstances. Translates purpose and vision into clear goals for the team. Makes sure every team member is on board and moving in the right direction.
Consults with project stakeholders to understand business problems and translates them into functional and non-functional requirements. Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources and reconciles conflicts. Dissects high-level information into details and is able to communicate details in a manner understood by relevant audiences. Where possible, influences requirements and process to effectively utilize systems and applications without customization.
Balances business requirements with technical feasibility and sets expectations on new projects

Program Manager
Location:  San Francisco – CA
Duration:  3+ months


Role/Purpose:
This position is responsible for cross-organizational program management in the CLIENT Design Suite, Subscription and Web Services family of products. The Program Manager will drive the business and execution of releases using effective communication between various groups within the organization and ensure that shared component products are released with high quality on schedule.

Responsibilities:
        Excellent communication skills.  Ability to:
        Interact and collaborate with and across all levels of the organization, customers, and external contacts with a professional demeanor, diplomacy, and finesse.
        Effectively facilitates communication, including cross-product, cross-functional and cross-division focus.
        Identify and resolve miscommunication across teams/orgs.
        Tailor the content and delivery of communication to the target audience.

    Schedule Development:
        Build the program schedule, including developing the framework, identifying dependencies - negotiating with 3rd parties / internal teams. Identifies multi-cycle feature and schedule issues.
        Performs program planning to establish an overall project plan, including key milestones, and drives progress to achieve project plan within time and budget constraints. Understand and coordinate sequencing of program and project to accomplish progress.
        Understands and assesses critical paths and dependencies for delivering and shipping products and facilitates discussions between all functional organizations involved in releasing the product.
    Risk / Issue Management:
        Performs risk management planning, identification, analysis, management, responses, monitoring and control on a program.
        Brings up and resolves issues in a timely manner, including problems that impact multiple programs and projects.
        Proposes workable solutions to complex problems while considering the needs of all groups that are impacted
        Understands and articulates the scope of top issues and how they relate/affect multiple projects or programs.
    Influence:
        Collaborates with management and peers in group initiatives and assists in driving strategic decisions for projects that are under the individual's direct and team responsibilities and makes recommendations to colleagues on projects not under individual's direct control.
        Effectively negotiates, persuades and motivates extended project team and management, providing justifiable proposals and recommendations and clearly outlined courses of action to follow.
        Develops strategic methods to persuade immediate and extended program team members for deployment of actions.
        Assesses future challenges on program and initiatives and mobilizes immediate and extended team members to take action, proactively addressing issues before they become crises.
        Establishes creditability with peers and managers and be a driving force when needed.

·         Leadership

o   Initiates, develops and effectively executes plans for change (new process, tool, etc) across multiple teams.
o   Steps into leadership gap by assuming authority/responsibility when necessary. Takes initiative to solve underlying systematic issues that cause recurring problems across multiple product teams or BUs.
o   Provides clarity and guidance and establishes strategic policies/procedures at the cross-product level, especially in times of conflict or uncertainty.
o   Leads by example. Sets high standards & communicates expectation of high achievement to others.

·         Other

o   Aggregates, organizes, and synthesizes program and project information in order to communicate with extended team and management
o   Evaluates existing processes and procedures. Makes recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.
o   Be proactive, flexible, and have impeccable follow through.
o   Works on complex problems and issues of diverse scope where an in-depth understanding and evaluation of factors are required to formulate creative solutions for one or more projects or initiatives
o   Prepares for milestone reviews with input from the team and is the presenter for any milestone review.
o   Proven ability "to get stuff done" across a complex organization.
o   Implements process improvements, including identifying the problem areas and process improvements - some cross-product or cross-BU focus.
o   Manages multiple competing projects or tasks, effectively balancing work between critical short term issues with longer term strategic goals.

Education / Experience:

    8+ years of relevant experience in program management
    Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Amit Kumar
P: 609-945-0795
F: 609-537-0070
amit@esystems-inc.com
URL: www.esystems-inc.com



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