Project Manager

Company: Horizontal
Location: Eden Prairie
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

Projects the candidate will be working on:

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• Clinical product development for Behavioral Health Technology.
  
  
  Ideal Background:
  
  
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  • Healthcare experience, Scaled Agile Release train leadership, experienced release manager or deployment manager with experience working with variety of product and operations and technology partners to deliver.
    
  • Managing risks and accountable for delivery as well as obtaining commitment from the application scrum teams.
    
  • Facilitating the cross application dependencies and development of value stories, backlogs and deployment plans.
    
    
    Team and Team size:
    
    
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    • Leading and managing technology workstreams as part of an agile product development team. Working with product managers, product owners to get their backlog into shovel ready state, connecting with technical architects, solutioning, and facilitating estimation.
      
      
      Top Responsibilities:
      
      
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      • Establish/implement/comply with change management processes to drive effective project execution (e.g., launch, deployment, revisions, change control).
        
      • Collaborate across business and technology work streams on agile roadmap and delivery planning.
        
      • Accountable for roadmapping, operational readiness, end to end delivery.
        
      • Obtain agreement from applicable stakeholders on schedule, time management and resource plans, and negotiate changes/adjust implementation plans as needed.
        
      • Risk and issue management.
        
      • Monitor and report progress throughout the project life cycle, using appropriate implementation planning and scheduling tools (e.g.,dashboards, metrics).
        
      • MS office suite (Powerpoint, Excel)
        
      • Rally (Agile workflow tool).
        
      • Accountable:
        
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        • Can anticipate what needs to be done vs. being instructed and drive results to completion
          
          
          
        • Attitude of empowerment:
          
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          • Leveraging your leadership shadow, drive clarity on what is needed, remove blockers that are hindering progress, align teams to execute in partnership
            
            
            
          • Attitude of transparency:
            
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            • Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and build trust among partners
              
              
              
            • Collaborative:
              
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              • Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
                
                
                
              • Communicative and social:
                
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                • Must be able to communicate well with all levels of the organization from team members to executives
                  
                  
                  
                • Continual improvement:
                  
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                  • Instills and executes a continuous improvement mindset for yourself and the teams in which your leadership shadow reaches
                    
                    
                    
                  • Enthusiastic:
                    
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                    • Must be impassioned and high-energy
                      
                      
                      
                    • Facilitative:
                      
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                      • Ability to bring out the best in people by aligning multiple perspectives into a clear, executed path
                        
                        
                        
                      • Flexible:
                        
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                        • Ability to shift to the role or tasks needed for each situational transformation.
                          
                          
                          
                        • Ability to "get the job done" regardless of role definition
                          
                        • Quick learner:
                          
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                          • Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of space
                            
                            
                            
                          • Servant Leader:
                            
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                            • Must be able to garner respect from team and stakeholders and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
                              
                              
                              
                            • Situational Awareness:
                              
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                              • Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise, put corrective actions in place and/or elevate them to management
                                
                                
                                
                              • System Thinker:
                                
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                                • Must be able to analyze the entire software development environment and operating culture and bring practical solutions to improve and navigate both
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  Skills/attributes:
                                  
                                  
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                                  • Setting up release management governance for a new product implementation (5+ years experience)
                                    
                                  • Skilled in managing risks and issues (5+ years experience)
                                    
                                  • Scaled Agile (SAFE) experience 2+ years
                                    
                                  • Waterfall experience 5+ years.
                                    
                                    
                                    Nice to have:
                                    
                                    
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                                    • Industry Certification(s): Agile / Scrum, SAFe, Lean Methodology, and/or Project Management
                                      
                                    • Health care industry experience strongly desired
                                      
                                    • Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) implementation and delivery
                                      
                                    • Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally)
                                      
                                    • Ability to lead and influence large matrix teams both on and off-shore
                                      
                                    • Experience with supervisory responsibilities preferred
                                      
                                    • Experience in successfully managing multiple programs/projects simultaneously.
                                      
                                      
                                      Interview Process:
                                      
                                      
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                                      • a. How many rounds? 3
                                        
                                      • b. Video vs. phone? Video preferred
                                        
                                      • c. How technical will the interviews be? Technical in terms of deployment and release management as well as cross team program management.
                                        

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