Manager - Business Consulting - Software Products

Our client, a Software Products company is hiring Business Consulting Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Work with our clients, manage overall coordination of client IT projects, from planning through implementation.

- Set project scope, priorities, deadlines and deliverable schedules.

- Facilitate discussions and consensus among various project stakeholders such as key business users, project sponsors, and developers.

- Manage and monitor project budgets and expenditures.

- Develop forecasts for estimate of completion.

- Work closely with clients and staff to execute project vision and project risk assessments.

- Manage, develop, train, and coach staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews.

- Contribute to proposals, project expansion, and business development call.

- Create project charters and project plans.

- Organize and run meetings to provide management oversight and guidance to the project team.

- Facilitate resource requirements analysis and scheduling, including estimated project work effort for both client and consulting resources.

- Guide business, technical and 3rd party solution provider resources.

- Perform status reporting.

- Monitoring project activities ensuring the quality and integrity of the information is intact.

- Record impacts from any changes during the project.

- Coordinate the issue escalation process for making business and monetary decisions, as well as identifying and mitigating risks.

- Obtain acceptance by client and close the project.

- Conduct post-project review and document lessons learned.

- Close out procurements.

- Communicate project updates including status, risks, issues, and escalations.

Required Skills

- 10+ Years of total experience.

- 5+ Years of Project Management experience.

- Prior experience with Oracle EBS and Business Intelligence is must.

- Ability to work across a broad range of business and IT-related subject-matter areas with sensitivity to global impact.

- Demonstrated ability to work with business and IT partners of all levels; sensitivity and understanding required for successful cultural relations.

- Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships.

- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced interactive, results-based team environment.

- Strong management, recruiting, training, coaching, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent written, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

- Ability to manage and develop staff in a highly interactive team environment.

- Knowledge of Microsoft Projects.

Plus Skills

- Project Management Institute certifications such as Professional Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) desirable.

- ITIL Certified.

- Exposure to Agile mythology.

- Experience managing Java technology.

- DevOps.

- Product Support experience is a plus.