Project Executive

Job Title: Project Leader

• Oversee and conduct daily project team meetings to monitor the team's activities and timesheets on a daily basis.
• Act as single point of contact for project team and responsible for communicating and coordinating with clients for all project-related discussions and prioritizing requirements within agreed effort and timelines.
• Participate in and supervise the successful execution of each stage of the project, communicate with project team members and stakeholders.
• Define project roles, assign responsibilities, and deadlines for each team member, provide necessary leadership and keep teams committed, motivated, and productive throughout the project.
• Facilitate the development of all elements of the project plans and schedule according to the project brief.

Additional Key Responsibilities:

• Manage proposed changes in scope, schedule, or budget with key stakeholders, relay any impact to cost, schedule, or scope and provide recommended course of action.
• Ensure that all parties are informed and re-baseline the project plans as required.
• Gather project requirements to develop and employ tactical, detail-oriented sprint plans.
• Identify and schedule project user stories, milestones, inclusive of all sub-activities and tasks.
• Document detailed project findings for evaluation, strive for continual improvement.
• Perform risk management, continuously assess and monitor project risks, create and manage mitigation plans to minimize the project risks, ensuring that project team members are actively involved in the identification and ownership of risks, initiate corrective action where necessary.
• Manage, maintain, and track the overall project plan, controls, budget, and work assignments.
• Track and report project status and performance using appropriate KPIs, metrics, tools, and techniques.
• Prepare weekly and monthly status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant project information.
• Establish effective project communication plans and ensure their execution.
• Coordinate the development of project documentation, user manuals, training materials, and other projects documents as needed.
• Identify and develop new opportunities with clients, manage customer satisfaction and expectation and obtain customer acceptance of project deliverables and milestones.
• Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Commerce, Finance, Accounting, or Business equivalent.
• Professional Certification in EPM, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Business Intelligence.
• Certification experience in Agile scrum project management framework.
• PMP or related certifications in project management.
• Demonstrated ability to have led customer project management PMO discussions with customer PMO teams and key sponsors.
• Project experience working with CXO levels stakeholders of large enterprises.
• Minimum 3 end-end ERP EPM direct customer implementation project management experience.
• Project experience knowledge in implementation of IT Solution in large enterprises, Anaplan, Jedox, SAP BPC SAC, etc.
• Minimum 3 successful on time and on cost adherence to scope statement of work project management and project deliverable ownership experience.
• Successfully executing and managing a hybrid onsite-offsite delivery model.
• Prior solution architect functional business lead experience with important skill of understanding customer requirements and translating to internal team for development providing quality assurance.
• Knowledge Experience across industries FMCG, Manufacturing, Trading Services, Banking finance Insurance, etc., In functional areas like Finance sales marketing Supply chain logistics Inventory management Manpower Management Etc.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in creating and managing project management templates and document deliverables leveraging Microsoft PowerPoint MS Word MS Excel MS Project MS Visio.
• Ability to creatively and resourcefully problem-solve both independently and with a team.
• Excellent communication skills Client communication including ability to articulate pointed reasoning with time-bound action expected as outcome Communications essentially must be Reporting and Reportees This role shall have EPM consultants India-based reporting to this person as part of delivery project management On a project as a project manager shall have consultants reporting to this person for the project duration This role shall report to Program Director as direct manager with additional dotted line reporting to Consulting Head and Director - India operations as maybe the case