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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Onsite
Coordinate multiple projects and/or teams in parallel to meet organizational priorities. Plan, execute, and monitor programs throughout the program life cycle to support the strategic direction of the organization. Manage program schedule, scope, and resources, adjusting to new requirements and constraints over the program lifecycle. Plan and implement program governance structures in an organized and controlled fashion to ensure that decision making is occurring with the right people involved. Regular communication of program delivery results and financial reporting to program stakeholders. Ongoing communications and change management supporting program objectives, adoption and maturity. Identification, monitoring, and control of program risk, issues, and escalations. Identification, monitoring and control of the interdependencies between projects. Upskill, retrain, and develop the team as needed to address all the resource requirements.
What You'll do:
• Decisions impact the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own function/client group; contributions may result in business or process improvements
• Manages medium sized projects with moderate to high risk; solution may require collaboration among cross-functional teams; there may be multiple interdependencies, and the solution could impact many applications
• Solves highly complex problems and is able to identify viable and often innovative options, and uses analytical skills and judgment to recommend an appropriate solution
• Helps drive process and manage projects
• Solves highly complex problems and is able to identify viable and often innovative options, and uses analytical skills and judgment to recommend an appropriate solution
• Defines and validates the project scope, plan and schedule for complex projects; define metrics for project success; select and apply standards (e.g. delivery process, roles and responsibilities, operational norms, compliance
• Identifies risks to project success and creates mitigation plans
• Manages project delivery process, scope and costs of complex projects with minimal supervision; drives completion of the project and mentors other team members
• Establishes partnerships with stakeholders to build support, secure sponsorship, and ensures alignment for project outcomes, end products and/or solutions
• Drives change by identifying impacts of the project, building awareness and support for change within the organization and contributing to development of training
• Evaluates project results against success metrics; creates or reengineers processes and resources to improve productivity and end product
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelors + 7 years of related project/program management experience
• Masters + 4 years of related experience
• Masters certification in project management preferred
• Work is autonomous.
• Minimal instruction is required.
• May require guidance for complex tasks.
• Provides training / guidance to new team members.
• Leads projects and initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
Varies based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications.
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