Lead - Strategic Projects

7 days ago

Chennai, India Ascendion Full time

About Ascendion


Ascendion is an ally for clients seeking enterprise digital innovation. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences. By embracing the future of work, we bring creativity and execution excellence together to make digital innovation valuable (and even fun). Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation for Global 2000 clients. Ascendion is headquartered in New Jersey. In addition to our remote/hybrid workforce, we have 20 offices across the US and India. We are committed to building technology that elevates life with an inclusive workforce, service to our communities, and a vibrant culture. For more information, please go to www.ascendion.com


Position Title: Lead /AM - Strategic Projects

Location: Chennai, IND

Mode of Operation: On Site

Department: Strategy & Operations (EVP’s Office)

Work Timings: 10 AM – 7 PM IST


Job Overview - Scope


As Ascendion continues to grow, it faces strategic choices around markets, services, capabilities, and other aspects of its business model. As we continue to grow, we want to continue to operate with laser focus on our people and all our talent initiatives.


Ideal candidate will have great collaboration, planning & execution skills combined with inter- personal awareness to work with a range of stakeholders from senior leadership to early in career employees. Work closely with our Business Strategy team to drive key business results. We are looking for a self-driven candidate with a growth mindset to help drive various strategic projects working in a cross-functional environment. The candidate is expected provide strategic guidance to teams and project managers in ways that promote the company’s culture.


The position is expected to exercise a high-level of judgment, work with various project stakeholders in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and draw from experience to perform advanced support.


Objectives of this Role


  • Strategize, coordinate various project initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives
  • Help to support various long term digital transformation projects
  • Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance
  • Oversee multiple projects, ensuring project goals are reached


Responsibilities


  • Ability to drive and adapt to a rapidly changing business and technological environment
  • Demonstrated strong program management experience across organizational boundaries
  • Ability to multitask and drive projects from ideation to execution in high-pressure situations with outstanding time management and prioritization techniques
  • Excellent leadership skills, Critical thinker, and problem-solving skills
  • Demonstrated planning skills with building project schedules and charters
  • Adaptable, comfortable to interaction with internal as well as external stakeholders
  • Coordinating meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings
  • Build expertise in deep domain knowledge, understanding of business strategy and drive innovation
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Proficient in MS Office (PowerPoint and Excel)
  • Analyse, evaluate project objectives, and produce project reports for management and stakeholders


Qualifications/ Experience


  • Master’s degree in business management or administration or related field post-graduation
  • B.E./B. Tech. + MBA from a reputed college with 3-5 yrs. post-qualification relevant experience will be added advantage
  • Knowledge of change management, business transformation, business strategy will be preferred
  • Relevant experience in consulting, project management, business will be added advantage

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