Program Manager/Project Manager - Redmond ,US

Overview  

Artic Consulting is expanding our organization, building a values-driven global organization known for our commitment to excellence and business impact, outstanding working relationships with clients and team members, and leading-edge knowledge in business consulting and technology solutions.  

Artic Consulting has an immediate opening for a Consultant, Business Management to join our team. This is a full-time, direct-hire, permanent position.  

Description & Responsibilities  

The mission of the Consultant, Business Management Services is to assist our clients with multiple strategic and logistical activities, as well as manage software development projects within planned schedule and budget in tandem with successfully managing stakeholder expectations.  The Consultant, Business Management Services will also be working with the larger team to build out Artic’s consulting service offerings across multiple technologies and industries. 

Responsibilities Include: 

• Understand the strategic landscape of a company including its customers, revenue model, and competitive analysis. 
• Create detailed recommendations for a company to achieve new outcomes to advance its business goals and strategic interests. 
• Successfully manage software development projects both large and small to meet planned outcomes.  
• Develop business cases backed by solid rationale and supporting data to articulate a potential opportunity to a client or to Artic leadership. 
• Accomplish some project tasks related to personal skillset with quality and efficiency. 
• Take the initiative to learn new skills through hands-on experience within project opportunities. 
• Articulate to all types of stakeholders the business goals and strategy as well as a project’s overall status, risks, and issues faced. 
• Participate effectively in detailed design sessions to create solutions including external integration and within contractual details from external partners. 
• Outline the scope of the work and identify and map out schedules, milestones, and required resources to meet the business & project objectives. 
• Establish priorities and gain commitments to the scheduled delivery with both internal and external resources. 
• Communicate new ideas to contribute to success for stakeholder or the organization. 
• Create materials for and conduct project-related training for stakeholders and other individuals at a variety of levels. 

Required Qualifications  

• Great organizational skills including keeping track of lots of details, tasks, and action items for others. 
• Ability to take detailed notes during meetings and training sessions. 
• Ability to learn about the business landscape through interviews of key stakeholders, where detailed notes are captured and collected to allow others to benefit from the information. 
• Proactively seek ways to increase level of responsibility and taking ownership of new areas of responsibility. 
• Awareness of potential conflicts and risks, as well as how to mitigate or resolve them. 
• Ability to identify possible root causes of an issue and make suggestions to mitigate and resolve. 
• Work tactfully to inspire faster adoption, greater utilization, and higher proficiency by employees regarding new ways of operating as a result of the consulting outcomes. 
• Ability to raise issues and challenges appropriately to management. 
• Self-motivated and self-disciplined; ability to work alone at a client site to complete tasks in a timely manner without significant day-to-day management oversight. 
• Familiarity with MS Office productivity suite, including Word and Excel. 
• Enjoy working in a fast paced, high-output, time sensitive environment. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Communications, or a technical field. 
• Demonstrate understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, Agile/Scrum, and Waterfall/SDLC methodologies. 
• Demonstrate experience managing stakeholders’ expectations and effectively mitigating dissatisfied stakeholders.  
• Collaborative, with the ability to influence team members, development teams, and other business groups, often without direct management authority. 
• Familiarity with Microsoft’s Azure DevOps (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services), Atlassian Jira, or similar work tracking tools. 
• Familiarity with the basic concepts of using Microsoft Project for project schedule generation and tracking. 

Professional Skills  

• Prior consulting experience preferred. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Proven ability to build, manage, and foster a team-oriented environment. 
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment. 
• Desire to work in a technical and business environment.  
• Ability to travel as necessary. 

  Equal Employment Opportunity  

Artic Consulting is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.  
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.  
Artic is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.  
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring.  

Benefits  

Join Artic and you will benefit from outstanding professional support and investment in your development.  You will have the opportunity to learn from and be coached by the best in the business – supportive leaders and colleagues who can pass on their industry, technical and functional expertise.   

This also includes medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits, 401k, vacation, and annual review process.