- Able to drive project from initiation to closure with smooth handoff to operations teams
- Organize project work into Phases, Work streams
- Track and report status on entire project, individual phases, individual work streams, milestones, resource utilization, project finances (incl. burn-down)
- Comfortable with presenting to executives, sponsors, business leadership team
- Proficient in waterfall & Agile methodologies
- Thorough in maintaining all project artifacts – charter, executive material, RACI, RAID log etc,
- Skillful in project plan creation using MS project
- Create project dashboards
- End to end effective meeting facilitation (Clear Agenda with outcome, next steps, publishing Minutes, track actions etc.)
- Establish project governance & communication plans with clarity
Key success factors in a candidate
- Self-starter
- Proactive; ‘can do’ problem solving attitude; effective navigating ability in ambiguity
- Ability to understand organization dynamics & adapt
- Audience-specific communication/artifacts
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, ownership
- Superior communication skills – Written & Verbal
- Ability to influence
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant experience
- 7+ years IT project management experience
- Tool proficiency (MUST): Microsoft Project , Jira
- Certification: PMP (MUST – Proof required)