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Myticas’s direct client based out of North Chicago, IL is currently seeking an Engagement Manager – Intelligent Automation for an On-site – hybrid contract position.
Top 3-5 Skills/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business management field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Project / Program Management Experience (2-3+ years managing IT projects)
- Communication and change management experience
- Stakeholder and relationship management experience
- Familiarity with IT development and Pharma regulatory practices (e.g., SDLC and GxP requirements)
Nice to have skills:
- Exposure to Automation technology (e.g., RPA, IVA, Process Mining)
- DevOps / Agile delivery methodologies
- Engagement Manager, Intelligent Automation
Responsibilities:
- Platform and Operational Models: Maintain and support operational models for enterprise IT platforms (including RPA, IVA, and Process Mining) to ensure scalability across perse functional areas and global teams and ensure continued operational efficiency and optimization.
- Engagement Workshops: Plan and conduct workshops with targeted BTOs / business areas to familiarize them with automation capabilities, their applications, and identify possible use-cases and next steps to partner with CoE to develop automations.
- Drive Project Success and Completion: Understand and drive leadership of the automation projects to success. Build key relationships with stakeholders, mentor team members and demonstrate leadership at all levels. Provide input for project estimates, schedule and cost/resource constraints with respective project teams.
- Initiate and Plan Project: Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives, financials, and deliverables. Plan, execute, monitor and control project deliverables from inception to closure. Monitor and ensure SDLC process steps are followed within the teams.
- Project Control: Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect the project, working with business and IT management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
- Project Communication: Communicate CoE Program progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate status and decision support information to project teams, business, and IT management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues and manage risks.
- Resource and Team Management: Partner with delivery manager and development partner to coordinate resources to ensure project needs based on forecast pipeline demand.
- Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and functional policies and procedures.
- Drive Continuous Improvement of CoE Process and Governance: Will continually examine Plans/Risks/Issues to identify gaps in project communication or process, hold project teams accountable for improvement, to drive proactive solutions as the project is ongoing. Escalate issues that need permanent process changes. Continuously measure appropriate KPIs and SLAs for the vendor delivery teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business management field, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- 3-5+ years in designing and developing enterprise integrations or automations (RPA) and coordination of multiple team activities
- 5+ years of experience working in a large IT organization
- 2-3+ years managing delivery for IT projects or development teams
- Experience with BluePrism is a plus
- Experience with Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) / chatbot technology is a plus
- Experience with Agile implementation methodologies specific to RPA delivery
- Experience with DevOps a plus
- Experience with Process Mining is a plus
- Proven experience in creating influence and building relationships
- Demonstrated ability to work with multiple stakeholders and manage competing priorities with internal customers
Myticas Consulting
The team at Myticas Consulting is looking to hire an SAP Product Manager responsible for engaging with operations stakeholders and supporting groups to identify opportunities, gather requirements, evaluate business cases, identify portfolio, develop roadmap, prioritize backlog, and manage delivery using agile methodologies, etc…
Responsibilities:
- Engage with operations, central services and procurement teams to evaluate repair management process & application improvement opportunities
- Lead order management, shop management and procurement functional process design
- Function as our internal “ERP consultant”
- Develop and oversee the operations product roadmap
- Conceptualize process design / functionality changes, and automation capabilities to address gaps
- Evaluate and propose solutioning options including custom development and packaged applications / COTS
- Identify, deploy and manage portfolio of tools to manage solution effectively
- Evaluate needs and set up the operations product group
- Coordinate with operations and operations support team stakeholders to oversee continued transformation of operations processes
- Work with key operations stakeholders and other SMEs to oversee development of business cases, assess value and impacts and identify key metrics.
- Manage solution development, execution of proof of concepts and pilots as needed, etc… in order to validate options
- Work with process owner to prioritize operations project and enhancement backlog for internal / 3rd party product teams
- Manage product backlog and oversee execution of scrum process
- Engage with development teams, 3rd party vendors and applications / SaaS providers to develop functionalities to cater to business requirements
- Establish and monitor KPIs to evaluate process and product effectiveness
- Work with IT PMO / scrum master to oversee sprints and manage its delivery
- Manage testing and deployment of product updates
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in retail, CPG, manufacturing industry or similar
- 8+ years of experience as business applications manager or product manager preferred
- 8+ years of experience in ERP (SAP, Oracle, or similar) functional / product support
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management
- Must have excellent O2C, Supply Chain and P2P process knowledge
- Knowledge of lean, six sigma, concepts are a plus
- Must have experience in running projects using Agile methodology
- Customer-relationship focused, process driven, metric focused, results oriented, organized, self-directed
- Ability to influence and build relationships
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Must be flexible to travel within the US & Canada, if necessary
Myticas Consulting
Myticas Consulting is currently seeking an IT Product Manager/Product Owner Experience for a contract position with our direct client based in North Chicago, IL.
Top 3-5 skills requirements should this person have:
- IT Product (system) Management
- Communication and articulation of technical concepts to business stakeholders and vice versa.
- Pharma / BioPharma experience – especially in commercial.
- Competency in SLC (software life cycle) management, including demand model and also support model for a Product (system).
- Competency in understanding & capturing business needs, turning them into system features/functionality; overseeing the entire process to do so.
Description:
- Overseeing an existing, custom-built Application.
- Must possess abilities and communication skills to interface comfortably with Business Stakeholders and Developers/Technical Team equally.
- Application supports the Launch Business Process (launching of Pharma Products in various Markets).
- Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects.
- Oversees all aspects of projects.
- Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
- Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.
- Generally, supports commodity or generic/unspecified skills, such as .NET, SharePoint, SQL, ADF, Cognos, Informatica, Data Modeling, DBA, HTML, Oracle, Program/Project Management, Unix, VB and Validation Testing.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Performs a variety of tasks. Leads and directs the work of others.
- A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
Requirement:
- May require a bachelor’s degree and 8-11 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Must have experience triaging technical issues, leading a small technical team, and defining/designing technical solutions.
- Must be familiar and have experienced with developing or designing applications with the following technology stack: angular.js, jQuery, bootstrap, Java Spring, JSP, Oracle.
- Experience with SLC process, Application management, etc.
- Experience with BioPharma in an IT role is preferred.
Nice to have (but not required):
- Pharma / BioPharma experience especially related to brand paunch activities
Myticas Consulting