Project Manager

Requirements

• Travel required (≈5 trips/year, up to 2 weeks each)

• Minimum three years management experience in the IT field, including development work and interactions with customers.

• Knowledge of software development and deployement industry standards.

• Strong communication skills to coordinate with team members, vendors and management.

• Organizational skills and time management skills to keep projects on track to the finish.

• Project managing skills to start projects and finish projects successfully.

• Experience working with cross-functional agile teams.

• Proficient use of project management software (e.g. JIRA).

• Excellent knowledge of Agile techniques and artefacts (e.g., Definition of ready/done, user stories, epics, features, backlog, splitting stories, etc).

• Experience creating proactive self-organizing teams.

• A continuous improvement attitude.

• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

• Experience of delivering in an environment where multiple development teams are involved.

Nice to have:

• Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition.

• Professional Scrum Master Certification from accredited intuition.

• Strong written and spoken communication skills in Italian language.

• IT Technical background (Architect, Engineer, QA, ecc.) is considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manages assigned technical projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope of project.

• Develops, maintains, and revises proposals for assigned projects including project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, timelines, funding, and staffing.

• Sets and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays, then realigns schedules and expectations as needed.

• Establishes and implements project communication plans, providing status updates to affected staff and stakeholders.

• Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.

• Facilitates gathering and validation of project requirements.

• Develops and maintains project performance databases that tracks overall progress and accomplishment of specific milestones.

• Ensures all parts of an assigned projects are processed, organized, and progressing according to predetermined timelines and deliverable dates.

• Regularly communicates with customers/clients to arrange meetings, confirm project schedules, and discuss any project problems.

• Coordinates internal and external resources scheduled, ensures projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets.

• Develops and communicates detailed specifications for implementation. Negotiates plans and timeframes, ensures that clients understand the anticipated results.

• Analyzes project progress and, when necessary, adapts timelines to achieve maximum benefit.

• Forecasts potential schedule delays and develops alternate plans.

• Creates and maintains comprehensive project management documentation.

• Analyzes risks and provides regular updates to Senior Management regarding projects status and any problems or potential problems. Takes proactive steps to minimize delays in delivery

Client

A global leader with a sharp focus on lottery solutions. A confident step forward building on a long history of delivering safe and secure technology, demonstrating strong commitment to customers as a dedicated lottery service provider. Leveraging collective insight, experience, and expertise to create reliable and engaging solutions that help lottery clients achieve objectives, meet player needs, and deliver meaningful benefits to communities.