Sr. Project Leader

Avery Dennison • Little Rock, AR

16h

About The Position

The primary objective of Project Leaders is to ensure the successful delivery of work, create transparency and facilitate consensus among stakeholders, maintain standard workflow processes as well as identify, document, and train stakeholders in new or improved workflow processes. Workfront and Azure DevOps, a third party, online workflow management tools, are the principal tools used for organizing and executing workflows. Project Leaders duties include work management platform project administration, project onboarding and closure, sprint project management, reporting, issue management, process improvement, documentation, and coordination. Project Leaders may work daily with various stakeholders, including our customer service PM teams, roughly 12 distinct teams within IT, product, strategy and innovation teams, production facility team members, accounting, and others. Excellent understanding of standard project management practices is required for most projects including management of project plans, quoting, resources availability, project scheduling, prioritization, communicating status updates, and change management. Beyond standard project management skills, the Project Leader position will require an evolving understanding of client business rules and technical processes unique to Vestcom.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Communications, or related field; 5+ years of related Information Technology project management experience; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Previous experience with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Workfront or Microsoft Project for project tracking and resource scheduling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must be able to effectively inform/update internal and external stakeholders regularly on status and immediately on any issues.
• Highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated track record of successful project management and change management initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of Google Workspace and Microsoft Office programs including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Teamwork Skills – ability to work with diverse teams with often competing agendas.
• Ability to work in an environment with a high velocity of change and with limited knowledge and/or information about business requirements or deliverables.
• Ability to prioritize work requests from multiple requestors and with limited resource availability
• Personal desire to perform at a high level in the following areas: exceptional project management service to stakeholders inside and outside the IT department; high quality and timely project deliverables; excellent verbal and written communications in all messaging to stakeholders from emails to process documentation.
• Ability to embody and reflect Vestcom’s core values
• Compliance with Company policies concerning maintaining a drug free workplace is required
• Compliance with all Company policies is required including all safety policies and procedures

Nice To Haves

• PMI Project Management Professional (“PMP”) or Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred.
• AzureDevOps and Workfront experience a plus.
• Familiarity with the software development life cycle (SDLC) and business analysis are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Workfront Project Administration – Uses work management platforms to manage the project and tasks within the project to show burndown, resource utilization, project progress and documentation.
• Project Onboarding and Closure - Drives project onboarding and closure including the following processes: business and product requirement reviews, work item management and development, quoting, scheduling, resource management, and closure.
• Sprint Project Management - Manages the successful delivery of project portfolios for clients which include the following duties: continually developing knowledge of client business rules and technical systems used to perform work, publishing project schedules to stakeholders, maintaining project plans, facilitating agile ceremonies, sponsoring meetings between client rep and IT resources, identifying, and helping to overcome obstacles, and providing progress reports as needed.
• Reporting – Creates, monitors, and trains users on (previously said Workfront, could update just to “work management platform”) reports that drive processes including billing, performance monitoring, time tracking, project onboarding / closure, issue management, work queues belonging to teams outside IT and inform leadership of project status.
• Stakeholder Management – Promote collaboration and clear communication with both internal and external stakeholders, including key business partners.
• Issue Management – May be responsible for supporting the Helpdesk issue management process in Workfront through answering questions and assisting IT with maintaining their Helpdesk issue queues as needed. Ensure work is appropriately represented on the team's backlog.
• IT Process Improvement – Champion Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver technology solutions. Identifies workflow inefficiencies and then creates processes for, documents, and trains stakeholders in new or improved workflows.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level