Jr. Associate, Program Management
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Job Title: Jr. Associate, Program Management
Job Summary:
As a Jr. Associate, Program Management you will play a key role in delivering award winning, interactive experiences to our clients. You will work as part of a team to manage the conversion of crazy, interactive, experience design ideas to reality.
Responsibilities:
- Provides project management support to project/program leadership by helping to manage day-to-day project delivery, track issues and risks, and support scope management.
- Mobilizes and manages a team to execute against project/track plans - tracking tasks for stories in an iteration plan or tracking tasks for a given plan.
- Interprets risks from a risk matrix and identifies the nature of the risk and its impact. Identifies and supports risk mitigation plans.
- Acts as project administrator supporting creation of PMO artifacts, such as status and budget metric reports for client communication.
- Performs analysis for requirements planning, business process reengineering, etc. efforts
- Distinguishes between functional and non-functional requirements, and breaks down requirements to smaller components in establishing a low level plan
- Assists proposal (RFI, RFP, etc) creation efforts
- Participates in key initiatives such as Hiring, Learning & Development, and Internal Capabilities
- Documents and facilitates gathering and use of project best practices across the PM Domain
- Supports client workshops and checkpoints
- Occasional overnight or overseas travel may be required
Experience Guidelines:
- Less than 1 year of professional work experience excluding internships
- Internship experience a plus
- Must be eligible to work in the US
- Graduation date December 2016 - June 2016
Education:
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field desired or equivalent military experience
Training:
SapientNitro is invested in the success of their employees. Every employee attends a Sapient Start in the first few weeks of employment. Additional skills and career growth training will be provided.
About SapientNitro
SapientNitroSM, part of Publicis.Sapient, is a new breed of agency redefining storytelling for an always-on world. We’re changing the way our clients engage today’s connected consumers by uniquely creating integrated, immersive stories across brand communications, digital engagement, and omni-channel commerce. We call it Storyscaping, where art and imagination meet the power and scale of systems thinking. SapientNitro’s unique combination of creative, brand and technology expertise results in one global team collaborating across disciplines, perspectives and continents to create game-changing success for our Global 1000 clients, such as Chrysler, Citi, The Coca-Cola Company, Lufthansa, Target, and Vodafone, in 31 cities across The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.sapientnitro.com.