Thursday, February 22, 2007

Project Manager/Business Analyst for Prestigious Weekly Publication! in New York, NY

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Our client is a prestigious weekly publication and they are seeking a Project Manager/Business Analyst to be based in their midtown Manhattan offices.


Key accountabilities:
· Work closely with business leads, Information Architect and Technical Architect to develop functional requirements for new website features.
· Run user groups to elicit and document product requirements.
· Work with stake-holders, design and development teams to ensure projects are delivered on schedule and on budget.
· Manage the entire project life cycle from discovery through launch and post project evalutation.
· Perform fit-gap analyis on proposed third-party software solutions.
· Ensure that projects are properly documented.
· Communicate project progress to management and stake-holders.
· Appropriate use of Group IT project framework and other procedures within team.
· Ensuring alignment of solutions delivered with Group strategy.
· Ensuring alignment of solutions delivered with the Group IT strategy.
· Shaping of Group IT standards.
· Management of project budgets.


Decision rights:
· Schedule commitments for projects.
· Selection of tools and techniques for use during projects.
· Process mapping standards.
· Recommendation of IT solutions.
· Selection of solutions in adherence to the Group IT strategy.
· "Right-sourcing" of solutions provided.


Performance measures
· Meet deadlines on internal and external development projects.
· Successfully deliver products that meet our requirements and quality standards.
· Quality of solutions delivered (including both the effectiveness of the technical solution and the value to the business).
· Quality of advice offered to management and peers.
· Quality of communications with colleagues and Group IT management.
· Quality of communications with customers (including the degree to which issues raised by business customers are directed to your manager).


Education:
· Educated to degree level with appropriate formal IT training if higher education qualification not IT related or proven track record.
· Appropriate professional qualifications/certification (PMI or other certification preferred).


Previous Work Experience:
· At least five years project management experience Information Technology field including demonstrated group facilitation, team building and collaboration skills.
· Strong background in web product development required.
· Publishing or media background desirable.


IT SKills:
· Microsoft Office.
· Microsoft Visio.
· Microsoft Project.
· Exposure to web application development environments and tools (ColdFusion and Oracle).


Personal Skills:
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
· Superb leadership and team building skills.
· Good negotiating skills.
· Outstanding clarity of thought, ability to analyse business problems or opportunities and provide effective solutions.
· Customer focussed and results oriented.
· Capacity and willingness to perform duties with initiative and resourcefulness.
· Ability to function in a collaborative environment; sensitivity to others; high integrity and intelligence; excellent judgment.
· Innovative
· Enjoy making things work and having fun. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here