Technical Project Manager
Port Washington, NY

Job Description

Learn and work on meaningful initiatives with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. The NPD Group provides the world's most successful brands with leading market research, combining consumer and retail point-of-sale data with analytic solutions to interpret today's market trends while anticipating tomorrow's. In addition, we offer a career filled with innovation and growth to the forward-thinking problem solvers who join our team.

Position Overview

The technical project manager role will focus on managing internal projects such as enhancements for NPD proprietary applications, migration to new big data platforms and other ad-hoc assignments. The PM will interact with internal clients across multiple departments and appropriately lead the clients to the best solution. The ideal candidate has experience in creating and managing processes in a technical environment.

Responsibilities:

* Direct and manage projects from beginning to end.
* Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals.
* 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.
* Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
* Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members.
* 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.
* 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.

Qualifications:

* Minimum of 3-5 years of project management experience or an equivalent combination of project management experience, development or product management experience.
* Strong written and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to communicate between technical and non-technical personnel.
* Candidate must be able to work unsupervised; have the ability to prioritize tasks; be logical, organized and work well with others in a stressful support environment.
* Candidate must be able to manage timely, effective response to customer needs and effectively communicate project status as requested and required.
* Exceptional communication skills and proven experience in writing clear and concise functional specification documents (samples preferred).
* Ability to conscientiously manage and follow up on multiple concurrent tasks, requests and projects on tight deadlines.
* Strong organizational skills and extreme attention to detail is paramount.
* Familiarity with agile methodologies is required.
* PMP certification preferred, but not required.
* CSM / Experienced Scrum Master is preferred but not required.

The NPD Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.