Expert Technical Project Manager - Acxiom

What will you do:

• Responsible for overall program/project management of concurrent large complex project implementations across different industries.
• Successfully lead a strategic enterprise-wide project with multi-functional, cross-organizational teams and/or outside vendors.
• Own and drive the projects to successful completion and the ability to manage more than one complex and challenging project at a time.
• Partner with the customer to understand, maintain, and improve solution roadmap and have a deep understanding of the business value we deliver to our customers.
• Gains knowledge to be able to understand requirements to build, enhance, or integrate programs and processes for one or more Acxiom Client solutions and/or applications.
• Managing activities is vital to complete requirements management effort, including identification of partners, and following the project management rigor and delivery methodology.
• Advocates and promotes processes that facilitate communication among client and internal stakeholders, project teams, partners and other supporting team project managers.
• Provides domain expertise by making recommendations for continuous process improvements.
• Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders

What you will need:

• Active PMP certification
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree
• 10+ years’ PM experience deploying packaged or custom software applications in a client and/or business facing role
• Solid experience in using tools like MS Project, MS Office and collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence, Workday, Teams and SharePoint
• Solid understanding of relational databases, with experience in data modeling, data warehousing, and data mart ETL.
• Specialist in leading large teams remotely spreading across multiple time zones, if needed
• Specialist in using Waterfall, Agile-based and Hybrid methodologies within a software development function
• Ability to work across teams, both internally and externally, and to influence project partners and stakeholders at all levels
• Share standard methodologies, framework and incorporate lessons learned into estimates, standards and protocols
• Authority in communication and issue management
• Solid understanding of project constraints, risks and client dependencies
• Build rapport with the internal teams as well as with client stakeholders, partners and third-party vendors
• Solid experience in driving large complex and high visibility projects to completion and shows tenacity for getting things done
• Confirmed ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with associates and clients
• Self-directed learning and continuous improvement as well as building knowledge and desire to learn
• Partner with the customer to understand, maintain,