Project Manager

Capstone Logistics is seeking a Project Manager/Scrum Master to join our IT Services team. This hybrid role blends project management and Scrum Master responsibilities, overseeing solutions that support multiple business service lines. These initiatives are integral to Capstone Logistics' business strategy, leveraging the latest technologies in analytics, cloud computing, and team collaboration.

The PM/SM leads project management and planning for application development and data engineering efforts, ensuring final deliverables align with business needs. This role requires a strong understanding of SDLC models, project standards, test planning, and documentation.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, results-driven collaborator who can guide a team of subject matter experts to success in a high-impact, visible role.

IT Project Manager/Scrum Master Job Responsibilities:

· The PM/SM is responsible for engaging with internal clients to advise and shape projects to meet their needs by properly defining the stakeholder’s project objectives and mapping requirements appropriately

· The PM/SM will work to create properly aligned business cases for project concepts and gain stakeholder approval to submit for Leadership approval to begin project work

· The PM/SM will map baselined requirements to their respective project objectives, gain stakeholder agreement and align tasks into a manageable work breakdown structure and lead a team to deliver those projects so that they meet and/or exceed customer expectations

· The PM/SM will create relevant project events and ceremonies, including but not limited to Project Kickoff/Closeout decks, User Stories and Backlogs, Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, review, standups and retrospectives), etc.

· The PM/SM role is responsible for supporting the creation, maintenance, and grooming of User Stories with Acceptance Criteria.

· The PM/SM role is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of projects. The PM/SM will work with teams that are geographically dispersed and comprised of all disciplines required to deliver IT solutions for our customers, including architects, business analysts, application engineers, quality assurance & testers.

· Successfully executing projects to agreed time, scope, budget and quality including developing objectives and plans to deliver on the business case benefits, budget and timescales

· Performing the project management processes - i.e. initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and close, and the supporting processes e.g. scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource, communication, stakeholder management ensuring that the required artifacts (e.g. project charter) are delivered and approved appropriately based upon Capstone Logistics’ IT project management methodology

· Planning for, monitoring and managing change through formal change management processes and stakeholder/customer relationship management including reporting on variances to the approved project baseline and managing the approval or mitigation of these as appropriate

· Managing project work and resources to enable successful and timely completion of the project including performing gate reviews and quality assurance reviews with all aspects of IT organization and business sponsors

· Closing the project and formalizing acceptance of the project results ensuring that the benefits realization have been achieved or a formal plan is in place to manage these

· Communicating with project teams, management, customers and stakeholders including implementing and working through defined governance processes

· Coaching and mentoring both customers, vendors and project team members