Business Intelligence Projects Manager Job Posting
| Job Title: | Business Intelligence Projects Manager |
| Job ID: | 359345 |
| Company: | via Niche Technologists, Inc. |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | Competitive + bonus |
| Skills: | SAP BW Business Objects |
| Date Posted: | Sep-17-09 |
Job Description
• Manages global business intelligence projects, provides leadership for functional and/or technical analysis, development, and implementation of enterprise business intelligence capabilities.
• Provides timely portfolio status updates to the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO).
• Responsible for assembling project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources, and developing plan and schedule to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Coordinates the activities of internal and external resources in a matrix environment with cross Global Business Unit (GBU) partners.
• Follows standards in all projects as set forth by the Enterprise PMO.
• Provide daily operational and user support as needed
• Communicates with Enterprise PMO and business executive management regarding project status.
• Works with senior business management and IS Leadership Team (ISLT) to establish priorities among identified projects.
• Participates in all corporate programs as directed by the Enterprise PMO and senior management in the Global Information Systems (GIS) organization.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Executes, in the form of projects, multi-year process enablement roadmaps aligning with global strategy and technology standards.
• Works closely with business partners across multiple business units to define business requirements, determine functional approaches and align business intelligence projects with overall company strategic objectives.
• Implement process improvements and support organization change management efforts as necessary to sustain change and realize benefits related to assigned projects.
• Work with business partners and IT department representatives to drive resolution of cross-GBU, cross-GIS issues and manage risk for assigned projects.
• Leads global, distributed, cross-functional teams assigned to deliver benefits to the business.
• Complies with Enterprise PMO methodology to track, measure and phase gate review project metrics, schedule, budget and issues.
• Promote effective communications between the core teams, extended teams and the rest of the organization.
• Supports and adheres to all policies, procedures and standards, including GIS Guiding Principles, Project and Change Management processes, Internal and External Health & Safety, Quality, Regulatory and Finance compliance, and support of Internal and External Audits.
• Prepares and builds business cases for proposed projects.
• Leverages informal and formal contacts to overcome conflicts and blockages.
• Skilled at internal/external consulting and relationship management.
• Demonstrated ability in conflict resolution, issues and change management.
• Understanding of legal issues and dealing with their resolutions for the enterprise projects.
• Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally as well as written, to diverse groups at all organizational levels.
• For Funds, Costs or Profits: Accountable to business and ISLT sponsors for successful project execution within budget and schedule. Budget authority up to $5 million.
• For Supervision: Directs and manages global, multi-cultural, virtual teams in order to successfully execute projects. Projects affect multiple global locations. Project teams may exceed 30 FTE in a globally matrixed organization.
• For Internal and External Relationships: Works in a matrixed organizational role reporting, for project purposes, to both GIS and business executive management. Communicates and works with GBU business and GIS VP/Group Director/Directors and Managers on a daily basis concerning strategic, operational and tactical issues impacting project solution delivery, business processes, applications and systems. Supports executive level meetings as required. Coordinates and negotiates with external vendors when necessary to resolve systems issues or explore future capabilities.
• For Organization Influence: A big picture thinker, the successful candidate will have the capacity to isolate issues for his/her team and help the organization to focus on implementing both top-level, strategic business intelligence solutions as well as operational improvement projects that are necessary for business success.
• The successful candidate will not hesitate to get into the fray in an active way, and will both champion ideas and accept disagreement with maturity and with the good of the business at heart. Candidate must manage the internal and external politics to ensure issues/ideas are on the right agendas at the right time and at the right level of the organization.
• The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills and communication abilities. The job holder must win the confidence of individuals at all levels, both inside and outside of the group, to foster teamwork and vision for the growth of the organization and support the vision and goals of the GIS organization.
Required Skills
• Communication & Influencing: The job holder must clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Teamwork: An individual who can work effectively in a collaborative environment and foster teamwork with their peer group, their local & virtual team colleagues and with employees outside of the GIS function.
• Technical Expertise: The job holder must have a background in successful information technology systems associated with their functional area.
Required Experience
• Bachelor's degree in business administration or information technology management required.
• Masters degree in related business management and/or information technology fields preferred.
• Leadership and management experience in an information technology related capacity required.
• Experience managing geographically distributed, virtual teams required.
• 5+ years of project management experience required.
• Deep competency in project management processes and methodologies required.
• Proficiency with enterprise level project and portfolio management tools desired.
• PMP project management certification desired.
• Business process knowledge in multiple business process area desired. Successful candidate will have experience working in several process areas including: Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, HR and Finance.
• Experiences with full life cycle BI project delivery
• Business Objects and SAP implementation experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading business transformation initiatives with process, organization and technology changes highly desirable.
• IT consulting experience with a global big 5 consulting firm strongly desired.
• One or more of the following professional certifications strongly desired: PMP, ITIL, Six Sigma.
| Location: | US-MA-Boston |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Ray Bonczek |
| Contact Phone: | 610-847-2143 |
| Contact Email: | rbonczek@nichetech.com |
| URL: | http://www.nichetech.com |
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