Project Manager III

SOFT's client located in Syracuse, NY (Hybrid) is looking for a Project Manager for a long term contract assignment.

Description:
Hybrid 1 to 2 days in Syracuse Office a week (Tues. and Thurs.)
Contractor- Project Manager for our Digital Solutions team in New York Syracuse, NY

Job Purpose:
The Contractor-Project Manager is responsible for supporting the business and operations work stream within a multi-disciplinary digital product team structure. They partner closely to execute several activities, such as identifying risky assumptions, building the value case, defining the future-state process vision, executing change management plans, etc.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support business capability assessment, design, alignment and road mapping for product line with cross-functional teams
• Construct business case, including value projections and detailed investment estimate; ensure these are aligned with product definition
• Track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
• Proactively identify riskiest assumptions and support product team in designing and executing experiments to increase confidence in business case assumptions
• Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints during full product roadmap
• Define future-state operations solution (process, org change), including detailed current state-process and future-state process documentation
• Support change mgmt. and product roll-out plan, with help from the change mgmt. team as needed
• Implement marketing, sales, business development, user acquisition, and user support strategies
• Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, IT governance, IT PMO)
• Support preparation of materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings) and regulatory engagements.
• Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field
• 3-5 years relevant business experience
• Experience working on digital product teams highly preferred
• Experience designing and refining value case (e.g., financial value to the business, strategic value, etc.)
• Experience in defining, testing, and refining product assumptions
• Experience in Agile product or project management
• At least 1-2 years working with (or within) utility
• Financial modeling and value case development experience

Pay: $1.00 per hour

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• RFP support, stakeholder mgmt: 3 years (Required)
• IT governance, IT PMO): 5 years (Required)
• Digital Board meetings) and regulatory engagements.: 5 years (Required)
• working with (or within) utility: 3 years (Required)

Location:

• Syracuse, NY 13215 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Syracuse, NY 13215