Project Manager

Job Title – Project Manager Onsite working: Hyderabad

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Position Overview Responsible for supporting the PMO Director in developing, establishing, and maintaining project management, governance, quality assurance, and resource management standards and processes. They drive consistent methodologies across all functions within the organization and ensure adherence, and continuous improvement, to ECC’s processes and procedures to ensure excellence in Transformation, Product launches, and any other Strategic or Tactical projects of importance to the organization.

You will support the PMO Director to shape and deliver key projects within the portfolio by offering impartial, expert guidance and support aimed at enabling the delivery of the agreed business outcomes including identifying key project stakeholders and agreeing appropriate support and assurance regimes based on project complexity.

Responsibilities Development and implementation of common program, project, portfolio, quality assurance, and resource management standards, associated tools, and documentation, such as project information systems, governance, business cases, benefits-led delivery planning, resource planning, risk management, project management reporting. In conjunction with the PMO Director, deliver PMO’s governance, quality assurance, and resource management strategy and frameworks, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives, driving governance and oversight across the project portfolio. Lead assigned projects to completion. Develop individual project plans complete with budgetary information and resource needs. Host a project meeting at least once per week for each project under your direction Refine project budget as needed to ensure timeliness and fiscal responsibility. Ability to complete projects on time and within the stated budget. Understanding of business processes and business analysis techniques. Determine and define project scope and objectives. Monitor and oversee the resource planning of programs and projects, and work with project teams to have an accurate forecasting on project resources to enhance delivery capability. Monitor and oversee the progress of programs and or projects, and work with project teams to understand and track delivery, devise plans, anticipate risks, and ensure effective issue resolution. Oversee the lifecycle of PMO’s policies, standards, procedures, and controls to proactively support service delivery. Ensure the successful delivery of critical programs and or projects within the PMO portfolio through provision of expert project management guidance, support, and assurance. Manage and oversee the development of all aspects ECC PMO’s products and services with a primary focus on project delivery, support and assurance, standards, and capabilities. Identify, create, and implement new processes, procedures, or methodologies as required by the business to enhance delivery capability. Build and monitor key performance indicators to provide timely insights and reporting to key stakeholders, monitor progress for individual projects to understand and track delivery, helping anticipate and pro-actively resolve key risks to delivery and benefits realization. Coordinate, oversee and or undertake impartial project reviews and health-checks to ensure the overall delivery of projects on time in full (OTIF), address and track actions and requirements arising from these reviews. Ensure lessons learnt are documented at the end of a complex project, documented, and communicated to the rest of the practice community for inclusion in any future similar estimations, implementations, and processes to further improve our delivery capability. Identify key project stakeholders and agree the parameters for providing impartial advice and guidance to support successful delivery of their projects. Provide guidance and leadership to the wider project management community as appropriate, including advice to the existing ‘virtual’ community of program and project managers across ECC.

Required Skills, experience, and Qualifications . A Bachelors’ or an MBA with 8+ years as PMO Staff. Holds relevant professional Project Management qualification, accreditation and or certification (such as PRINCE2, PMI) – Not mandatory if he/she has a track record and good number of projects. Ability to operate in both agile and waterfall style project methodologies and understand deliverables required for each methodology (good to have both, not mandatory) Experience in handling digital organizational or departmental transformation, data analytics projects. Fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, and Word) and Any Project Management Tools Good knowledge of, and proven practical ability in, business change and or transformation techniques Strong attention to deadlines and budgetary guidelines Experience developing in-house platforms for internal processes An excellent understanding of program and project management best practice standards, tools, and techniques including planning, governance, delivery management, and risk management. Strong planning and organizational skills. Ability to influence stakeholders, an excellent communicator, with consultative selling skills and the gravitas to build credible peer relationships with decision makers. Flexible, proactive, naturally curious and collaborative, not afraid to step up and share your knowledge Strong eye for detail. The ability to thrive under pressure and meet deadlines and objectives, with a results-oriented and self-starter mentality. Sound understanding of Education Product Development and fulfilment processes (Good to have) Should demonstrate an ability to adapt, learn and apply new knowledge in varied situations.

Some of the key activities you would perform: Install PM Practices – Kick off, Plan, RAIDD logs, Governance etc, Maintain Project register. Scope and Change Control Gate management Reporting – PSR, KPI monitoring (both for monitoring effects of transformation and operational KPIs) Meeting management for Projects, including taking meeting minutes, converting them to actionable items and maintaining the RAIDD logs. Ability to define KPIs and North Star that matters – good to have, not mandatory. Develop and implement change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage of required changes. These responsibilities also include plans and efforts to anticipate and minimize resistant behaviors from employees and stakeholders who are impacted by the changes. Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities Leverage a change management methodology, process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.

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