Project Manager (hybrid onsite, Omaha Nebraska)

First National Bank of Omaha•Omaha, NE

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

As Project Manager, you will manage the entire project lifecycle from project definition through implementation while working in partnership with agile scrum teams, architects, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders. You will facilitate Discovery sessions and planning sessions to build out epics and a timetable for the project(s). Ultimately, you are accountable for successfully orchestrating the delivery of the work across the different teams and for navigating dependencies between teams, sequencing of work, and ensuring collective progress of the impacted squads and teams. You will collaborate with Scrum Masters and Product Owners while respecting their roles, to ensure that major milestones are being met. You will also work closely with external vendors to align plans, track, and hold them accountable to meeting delivery milestones and ensure clear and active communication. While teams remove their own roadblocks, you will own oversight, risk management, decision making and escalations at the higher project level. You will be expected to work within the defined PM Practice, and Agile Governance while actively monitoring work within the ServiceNow and Smartsheet tools which includes providing overall status of the project(s) and presenting accomplishments, expected timelines, barriers, and progress to leadership. The ideal candidate has a customer focused personality and hands-on experience managing projects within an Agile environment. You are an expert with time and stakeholder management and can multi-task and manage multiple, complex, projects effortlessly! About This Role: Outcome focused: Champions an outcome-driven approach to project management, ensuring all initiatives align with strategic objectives and deliver intended project outcomes. Agile fluency: You are sensitive to the conditions that create success, can spot when teams diverge, and know how to bring them back on course. You understand the roles of an agile team and work in partnership within the principles of agile. Leadership qualities: You’ll be expected to establish credibility and rapport up and across as well as with technical and non-technical colleagues. You’ll lean on your facilitation, negotiation, and persuasion skills to bring others along with you. Organizational complexity: You will need to be able handle various responsibilities such as the planning, scheduling, and management of all aspects of a project including dependency management of multiple impacted teams. A natural communicator: You will be eager to share your project team’s work and increase its visibility, over-communicate risks and dependencies, and both give and accept constructive feedback. Transparent: You understand the value of transparency and role model transparency in all you do. Adaptable: You have the ability to respond to anticipated changes and to plan for and mitigate unanticipated changes

Requirements

You are someone that others enjoy working with due to your positive attitude and ability to partner, lead and influence across multiple teams and capabilities
5 years of professional experience
3 to 7 years of relevant experience managing projects.
Experience managing projects in an Agile Environment
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or other related field OR equivalent work experience
Candidates must possess unrestricted work authorization and not require future sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience with ServiceNow (Agile & Project Portfolio Modules)

Responsibilities

Manage the entire project lifecycle from project definition through implementation
Facilitate Discovery sessions and planning sessions to build out epics and a timetable for the project(s)
Accountable for successfully orchestrating the delivery of the work across the different teams and for navigating dependencies between teams, sequencing of work, and ensuring collective progress of the impacted squads and teams
Collaborate with Scrum Masters and Product Owners while respecting their roles, to ensure that major milestones are being met
Work closely with external vendors to align plans, track, and hold them accountable to meeting delivery milestones and ensure clear and active communication
Own oversight, risk management, decision making and escalations at the higher project level
Work within the defined PM Practice, and Agile Governance while actively monitoring work within the ServiceNow and Smartsheet tools which includes providing overall status of the project(s) and presenting accomplishments, expected timelines, barriers, and progress to leadership