Senior Associate Agile Project Management

Company Description

Company Description

Job Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

As a Project Manager at Publicis Sapient, you will partner with clients undertaking major digital business or engineering transformation engagements. You will work within a cross-functional, globally distributed team to lead the planning, estimation, and delivery of client projects and programs.

Your Impact:

·        Plan, document, and implement the optimal team structure (roles, people, expertise) to ensure high-quality delivery, exceeding client expectations and achieving established goals 

·        Lead small to medium sized teams to successfully deliver customer experience and engineering solutions leading to client business value

·        Identify and realize business outcomes using the most suitable and effective project management approach, methods, processes, and tools to ensure a high degree of delivery and solution quality

·        Support clients’ business objectives by delivering experience and engineering solutions, including experience management, ecommerce, customer data, cloud, and microservice platforms

·        Enact lasting changes to the client’s ways of working by utilizing a consultative approach that focuses on defining and measuring customer value delivered at each milestone

·        Organize and lead ongoing team planning sessions to identify key risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams 

·        Articulate and manage engagement commercial metrics including client outcomes, leakage, burn rate, revenue and margins, etc. to support account health and account-level planning within the industry vertical

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

·        Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with all levels of the organization to achieve broader insights into managing work streams and outcomes

·        Capable of earning trust and influencing stakeholders without formal authority to required results

·        Proficient with collaboration tools including Atlassian Jira and Confluence, and Microsoft Office applications

·        Flexible, collaborative, and able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously to maintain teamwork and optimal project flow

·        Experience working with Agile delivery methods like Scrum and Kanban, waterfall and hybrid systems

Set Yourself Apart With:

·        Experience in writing, reviewing, and finalizing statements of work

·        Experience in defining business requirements

·        Scrum, Product or SaFe Certification

·        Relevant experience at a digital agency or consultancy leading cross functional, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences

Additional Information

• A great culture and core values with an inclusive collaboration mindset.
• Equal pay with bonus and more.
• We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
• We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms
• Diversity and inclusion aren't just buzzwords. We offer an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups and work with you to give back to the local community through CSRefforts.