SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER/AGILE TRAINER

The Senior Project Manager / Agile Trainer position reports into the Compass Technical PMO. The candidate will be responsible for leading teams to deliver Agile projects that span across one or more technology and business units, as well as training and coaching teams on Agile Methodologies. This role involves developing project scopes, managing project engagement, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Agile practices and experience in project management.

This candidate identifies and achieves business outcomes by using the most appropriate and effective project management approaches, methods, processes, and tools to ensure high delivery and solution quality.

• Manage and execute on key projects and programs to ensure that deadlines are met, potential roadblocks and risks anticipated, escalated, and solved for.
• Conduct training sessions on Agile principles, practices, and methodologies.
• Facilitate SAFe training and workshops to ensure teams are proficient in SAFe practices.
• Develop and deliver customized training programs to meet the specific needs of various teams.
• Provide ongoing coaching and support to teams to help them adopt and improve Agile practices.
• Collaborate with leadership to promote Agile culture and continuous improvement.
• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility by working with project technical leads.
• Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks, and issues
• Partner with relevant cross-functional teams (Legal, Organization Senior Leadership, and IT) to set up programs for success including capturing action items from meetings and providing regular status reporting
• Address program issues by identifying and selecting a course of action by considering program constraints and objectives to enable continued program success
• Quickly evaluate and prioritize projects based on changes in needs, resources, roadblocks, and deadlines
• Translate relevant, actionable information to be digestible by multiple audiences (project-level resources to executives)
• Facilitate project meetings and working sessions, bringing together the right cross-functional team members to monitor project progress, keep each other accountable on commitments and deliverables based on the schedule, and quickly and proactively identify recommendations and solutions to resolve project challenges, consider alternatives, and resolve issues.

• Minimum of 5+ years of project management experience
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Proven experience in training teams in Agile and SAFe methodologies
• SAFe certifications, including SPC (SAFe Program Consultant), are a plus
• Travel as needed (less than 25%)
• Strong communication and facilitation skills
• Ability to tailor training programs to different audiences and skill levels
• Proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in your past positions
• Demonstrated ability leading large, complex enterprise projects, particularly those involving a significant degree of change across the organization
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills with strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to work effectively with and communicate complex ideas to people at all levels in an organization
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, and create opportunities for others
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to adapt/make changes quickly