At this stage of our journey, we are seeking a full-time person in a project manager role to lead one or more projects with the responsibility to create and manage an overall project plan including budget, schedule, and resources. Monitor and report progress and changes against the plan. Ensure a successful implementation by motivating and directing a cross-functional project team comprising the delivery team, customers, and partners. Act as primary interface with the client regarding deliverables, changes, and sign-off on status.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Participate in the complete lifecycle of projects from inception to deployment to value delivery and get exposure to customers spanning industry verticals like FMCG, Consumer goods, Retail, etc.
- Develop an estimate of effort, time, resources required, and platform sizing needs to help build the SOW
- Create a detailed project plan and align the stakeholders at customer and our end on the jointly developed project plan, milestones, timelines
- Work with the product team to provide suitable resolutions for bugs and enhancements found during project design to the deployment stage
- Provide necessary knowledge transition and documentation, while handing over the project to Support services post-go-live
- Continually engage with the customers to manage priorities and expectations, identify new opportunities
- Provide thought leadership in terms of designs and best practices to the customer and the team
- Ensure timely and periodic communication with regards to the progress and anticipated concerns of the client
- SW tools used primarily: internal project planning platform, Excel, Project Planning and monitoring tools like Azure DevOps, Asana, MPP, and JIRA.
You have:
- Prior experience of at least 3 years in a PM role in the IT consulting industry with an overall experience of at least 8 years.
- Experience in leading an offshore team of at least 10 with onsite/offshore collaboration is desired.
- Project management certifications like PMP as desired.
- Ability to work in a high-pressure, fast-growing environment.
- Experience working with analytical tools like R will be a plus
- Pleasant personality with the ability to build & nurture relationships with multiple stakeholders in the ecosystem.
- Go-getter attitude with the ability to think through ways and get things done.
- Strong ownership & commitment towards goals with minimum need for micro-management.
- Positive attitude in life ability to pick up and execute when chips are down.
You can expect
- A chance to join the company in the hypergrowth stage and grow together.
- Opportunities to work with the biggest brands in the world
- A flat organization with a very strong entrepreneurial culture (and no corporate politics)
- A great team to support you and that you can support
- Possibility to really make a difference in a scale-up environment
- Laptop, possibilities to be home-based &/or in our regional office