Project Manager - Dynamics 365 Business Central - PeakActivity

The ideal person is a strong and organized team player, who has worked in an enterprise planning, managing and tracking multiple projects and providing guidance to project managers. This person must be ready to work alongside various functions within the organization, including product, software, and infrastructure teams to help roll out our new company wide initiatives.

This PM will be responsible for creating and maintaining a project roadmap, documenting system interaction, and keeping teams on track with milestones and deliverables, as well as reporting upward to our CIO and Executive Management team!

General Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review project proposals or plans to determine a time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements and the assignment of available departmental resources to various project phases
• Support the Director of EPMO to establish standards, procedures, and methodology for managing projects within the organization.
• Develop the project plan (MS Project – Smartsheets)
• Develop the project schedule and resource requirements
• Develop policies and procedures to support the achievement of the project objectives
• Tracking project progress and report updates to business
• Determining and taking corrective actions to meet project goal
• Assigning and refining tasks priorities with internal and external dev team
• Working with business stakeholders/Business Analysts to capture and define requirements
• Reporting on risk assessment
• Support responses to RFIs and RFPs (working with Vendors)
• Communicate risks, issues, problems across clients, business, and management
• Set expectations with clients regarding dates and deliverables
• Organize, schedule and facilitate team meetings. Document actions, notes and follow up meetings
• Work with remote employee teams to manage and set priorities
• Other duties as assigned

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience managing multiple project plans, risks, issues, solving problems
• High comfort level managing priorities across remote teams
• Solid ability to define and articulate solutions in a team environment, while owning the execution, quality, and results of each initiative
• Experience in spearheading multiple projects from inception through to successful launch, specifically focused on
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP systems; Dynamics 365 Business Central a PLUS
• Must have a strong desire and ability to solve problems and see results
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and cross-functional teams
• EXCELLENT communication skills: ability to present and correspond well with Executive Management/Project Teams and External Stakeholders
• 7 years overall project management experience

Highly Desired:

• Experience with Agile methodology
• Knowledge of Electronic Components Distribution business
• Experience managing projects across onshore and offshore teams

Personal Traits and Characteristics:

• Exceptional interpersonal and influencing ability across a broad range of personality types, gaining commitment and bringing individuals “on board” at all levels
• Hands-on, detail oriented, highly organized with excellent follow-up and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated individual with a high level of initiative and sense of urgency
• Effective communication and organizational skills, flexibility, adaptability, common sense
• Energetic leadership skills and ability to work within a matrix organization creating alignment across multidisciplinary functional lines
• Professionalism in dealing with all level of management and staff
• Ability to initiate and develop key relationships and interfaces
• Highly analytical with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to guide others in problem solving when ambiguity exists
• The successful candidate shall exhibit a sense of ownership, urgency, be solution orientated, collaborative and accountable.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 10 years project management experience, preferably in the ecommerce electronics/computer industry
• PMP Certification strongly preferred
• Proficient with Smartsheet, MS Project or similar project management tool
• MS Office suite of products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Outlook)

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