IT Project Manager

Responsibilities :

- Conceptualise, define, and manage technology projects from end-to-end, working closely with the development and business teams.

- Participate in estimations with tech and business teams and draft it using standard templates

- Communicate and track the project progress to cross-functional teams, ensuring its overall success.

- Ensure progress of multiple projects against schedule, within budget and to high quality standards.

- Lead the end-to-end life-cycle of IT projects, from initiation through delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and budget.

- Develop comprehensive project plans that define objectives, timelines, resources, and risk management strategies.

- Monitor project progress, adjust plans as needed, and ensure alignment with business goals and technical requirements.

- Collect and analyze project data (timelines, resources, costs) to provide actionable insights and make informed decisions.

- Regularly report on project status and performance metrics to stakeholders, offering recommendations based on data trends.

- Collaborates with a diverse multi-disciplinary global team to understand business needs and outcomes and works closely with key stakeholders across the company to deliver

- Act as the primary liaison between project teams, business stakeholders, and senior management, ensuring clear communication and expectation management.

- Present project updates, key findings, and recommendations to stakeholders, using data visualization and reports to illustrate project progress.

- Identify, assess, and manage project risks, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative analysis to develop mitigation strategies.

- Resolve project issues proactively by analyzing root causes and facilitating problem-solving within the project team.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, ensuring they are translated into technical specifications and project goals.

- Ensure that all project deliverables meet business and technical needs by consistently revisiting requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

- Develop and monitor project budgets, ensuring resources are effectively allocated and expenditures align with financial forecasts.

- Work with finance and procurement teams to optimize resource allocation and vendor contracts to support project objectives.

- Conduct regular performance assessments by analyzing project data and identifying opportunities to optimize workflows, resource allocation, and timelines.

- Implement continuous improvements based on post-project evaluations, leveraging data from completed projects to refine future planning and execution.

- Define, manage, and improve the development process.

- Mentor/educate team members and peers in project management methods and best practices.

- Manage and drive change where needed to core operational processes, dynamically reacting to evolving client needs and competing priorities.

- Manage each major and minor platform release worldwide, then collect and share valuable lessons learned.

- Help global teams to juggle schedules and resources.

- Effectively communicate objectives and updates to all key stakeholders.

Requirements :

- Overall experience of around 4-17 years with minimum of 2 years in large scale system project management

- Minimum 2 years of hands on experience of working in Agile Scrum methodology as a scrum Master

- Should have experience of planning, executing and monitoring a Sprint of minimum two weeks

- Should be aware of agile planning techniques like poker planning

- Should be good at handling multiple projects and multitasking

- Hands on in reporting the fortnightly, monthly project status to the stakeholders

- Self-starter, comfortable with implementing and executing Agile development processes and accepting responsibility for seeing projects through to completion.

- Previous responsibility as a technical lead or development manager as a consultant is highly desirable.