Responsibilities:• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.• Track project milestones and deliverables.• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members,and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.

- Coach and help develop team members- Facilitate problem solving and collaboration- Encourage creativity, risk-taking, and constant improvement- Recognize and celebrate team and team member accomplishments and exceptional performance- Coordinate with internal and external customers as necessary- Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance- Assure that the team addresses all relevant issues within the specifications and various standards- Provide necessary business information- Help keep the team focused and on track- Establish meeting times, places and agendas- Coordinate meetings with the product committee, board of directors and functional management to discuss project impediments, needed resources or issues/delays in completing features- Provide status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule- Keep the product committee informed of feature accomplishment, issues and status- Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve interface and integration issues with other teams- Escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team- Provide guidance to the team based on management direction