The Hertz Corporation
Project Manager - SCRUM
The Hertz Corporation, Des Plaines, Illinois, us, 60019
A Day in the Life:
The overall responsibility of the Project Manager/Project Delivery Lead is to craft and deliver technology-enabled solutions via projects that are well-defined, well-structured, and adhere to best practices. This role is the primary “face” of a project. Successful candidates conduct their work with high professionalism, quality, diligence, and adaptability. The winning candidate will be passionate, committed, and a fast learner, adaptable, coachable, and open to new approaches to technology solution projects.
What You’ll Do:
Facilitates daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
Manage the development releases and facilitates sprint releases
Analyses business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Holds team accountable for JIRA tool usage
Interacts with other Scrum Masters and project managers to ensure inter-team dependencies are addressed
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with leadership and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Maintain and publishes team data and metrics in JIRA to support estimates and execution (release burn up, velocity metrics, sprint burn down etc.).
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Write all functional requirements as user stories
Create test cases and record results with direct traceability to user stories
Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
Deliver solutions via projects that are on time, on budget, and in scope
Create and manage projects with strong stakeholder alignment and buy-in re: strategy, scope, and timeline
Drive close project collaboration across business, technology, and third-party teams
Manage, support, and synthesize the work of project team members, including Business Analysts
Create project plans, socialize them with stakeholders, and keep them up-to-date and available on file share
Superior & demonstrated team building & development skills to harness powerful teams
Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of leadership within the organization
Provide timely updates so that progress against each individual incident can be updated as required
Write and review high quality technical documentation
Presents high level project readouts for senior management
Facilitates effective mediation of team conflicts.
Lead and direct technology solutions through all phases of the project.
Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
Ensures their workstation and all processes and procedures, follow organization standards
Encourages and maintains a ‘Best practice sharing culture’, always striving to find ways to improve service and change mind set.
What We’re Looking For:
5 years’ experience within Hertz and/or in Project Management
Four-year college degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Economics or like preferred
Experience working with JIRA
Demonstrates experience in managing projects of various sizes, complexity and types (e.g., application development, outsources services).
Can execute Software Development Methodology and techniques as developed and governed by our internal Project Management office.
Experience performing the Scrum Master role for a software development or IT services team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing etc.
Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Create detailed requirements, including acceptance criteria
Design business processes via activity diagrams
Write and execute test cases that tie to design requirements
Thoughtful practitioner of multiple methodologies and frameworks
Project Management experience, including MS Project or similar
Prefer prior experience creating UML diagrams
Flexibility in scheduling which may include nights, weekends, and holidays
We expect the starting salary to be around $105,000 to $130,000 with annual bonus and profit sharing eligibility. The actual salary will be determined based on years of relevant work experience
What You’ll Get:
Up to 40% off the base rate of any standard Hertz Rental
Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more
The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.
US EEO STATEMENT
At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company.
Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.
EOE, including disability/veteran
The overall responsibility of the Project Manager/Project Delivery Lead is to craft and deliver technology-enabled solutions via projects that are well-defined, well-structured, and adhere to best practices. This role is the primary “face” of a project. Successful candidates conduct their work with high professionalism, quality, diligence, and adaptability. The winning candidate will be passionate, committed, and a fast learner, adaptable, coachable, and open to new approaches to technology solution projects.
What You’ll Do:
Facilitates daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
Manage the development releases and facilitates sprint releases
Analyses business requirements documents and project timelines
Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
Holds team accountable for JIRA tool usage
Interacts with other Scrum Masters and project managers to ensure inter-team dependencies are addressed
Drive team iteration execution, communicates with leadership and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
Maintain and publishes team data and metrics in JIRA to support estimates and execution (release burn up, velocity metrics, sprint burn down etc.).
Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Implement and support principles, rules and processes
Write all functional requirements as user stories
Create test cases and record results with direct traceability to user stories
Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
Deliver solutions via projects that are on time, on budget, and in scope
Create and manage projects with strong stakeholder alignment and buy-in re: strategy, scope, and timeline
Drive close project collaboration across business, technology, and third-party teams
Manage, support, and synthesize the work of project team members, including Business Analysts
Create project plans, socialize them with stakeholders, and keep them up-to-date and available on file share
Superior & demonstrated team building & development skills to harness powerful teams
Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of leadership within the organization
Provide timely updates so that progress against each individual incident can be updated as required
Write and review high quality technical documentation
Presents high level project readouts for senior management
Facilitates effective mediation of team conflicts.
Lead and direct technology solutions through all phases of the project.
Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
Ensures their workstation and all processes and procedures, follow organization standards
Encourages and maintains a ‘Best practice sharing culture’, always striving to find ways to improve service and change mind set.
What We’re Looking For:
5 years’ experience within Hertz and/or in Project Management
Four-year college degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Economics or like preferred
Experience working with JIRA
Demonstrates experience in managing projects of various sizes, complexity and types (e.g., application development, outsources services).
Can execute Software Development Methodology and techniques as developed and governed by our internal Project Management office.
Experience performing the Scrum Master role for a software development or IT services team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing etc.
Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Create detailed requirements, including acceptance criteria
Design business processes via activity diagrams
Write and execute test cases that tie to design requirements
Thoughtful practitioner of multiple methodologies and frameworks
Project Management experience, including MS Project or similar
Prefer prior experience creating UML diagrams
Flexibility in scheduling which may include nights, weekends, and holidays
We expect the starting salary to be around $105,000 to $130,000 with annual bonus and profit sharing eligibility. The actual salary will be determined based on years of relevant work experience
What You’ll Get:
Up to 40% off the base rate of any standard Hertz Rental
Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more
The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.
US EEO STATEMENT
At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company.
Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.
EOE, including disability/veteran