Project Manager​/Business Analyst

NIMBL is a privately-held, nationally-recognized, award-winning SAP professional services firm focused on high-value, high-impact consulting. Powered by years of SAP expertise, countless hands-on initiatives, and industry thought-leadership, NIMBL provides bleeding-edge technical SAP consulting services and proprietary SAP Express software solutions to both the midmarket and Fortune 500.

The Project Manager/Business Analyst role is multifaceted. As a Project Manager, this role entails the overall management of a project throughout its lifecycle. The Project Manager is responsible for defining, planning, tracking, and managing the project, for identifying key resources and providing the direction required to meet project objectives. The Project Manager provides leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget, and project quality criteria.

They also ensure adherence to project management methodology practices, provide team coaching, evaluate the performance of team members, and reinforce the enterprise knowledge management through the collection and communication of lessons learned.

As a Business Analyst, this role entails tasks including:

• Task Management
• Helping clients assign and follow through on assigned tasks
• Process Improvement
• Process discovery and mapping
• Process improvement
• Requirements Gathering and Review
• Interviewing clients
• Documenting and confirming requirements
• Relaying requirements to developers
• Assisting in developing functional test criteria

Skills/

Experience:

• Management soft skills
• Ability to multitask
• Process documentation (Visio)
• Process evaluation and improvement
• Attention to detail
• Open to instruction
• Holds Customer Service as a priority
• Project Management Experience
• Meeting Minute Taking
• Listening
• Writing
• Intelligent Questioning
• Business Analyst Experience

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS:

• Delivery:
  Participate in project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan
• Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them
• Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders
• Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance
• Analyze risk, establish contingency plans, and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action
• Escalate issues early about the project to delivery management
• Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties

Coaching and Mentoring:

• Position project reviews with customers and effectively manage their deployment
• Mentor project teams to ensure implementation of enterprise project management methodology, standards, and processes
• Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team; review quality of work and manage integration of team members’ work

Knowledge Management:

• Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases
• Analyze lessons learned and share with the organization’s project management community
• Participate in the development of project management best practices

Tools & Techniques:

• PMI project creation; project administration; project reporting; project closure