Responsibilities:

• Understand a project's scope and create deliverables/milestones.
• Monitor projects on a regular basis, evaluating progress and quality, and managing issue resolution process to ensure corrective actions are taken.
• Maintain the quality of all project document/data to assure the integrity of a project.
• Coordinate schedule of activities related to the project.
• Assist in project assessment, risk identification and analyzing project benefits.
• Provide support to the Project Manager in developing and communicating detailed project plans and quality plans, with applicable stakeholders.
• Work with the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule.
• Measure performance through project tracking to ensure that release criteria is being properly met.
• Assist Project Manager to monitor progress of the projects and make adjustments as needed
• Identify and resolve project issues and coordination of change requests
• Use technology to ensure all parties are informed on schedule, progress and issues in the project.
• Ability to manage Project Assumptions, Constraints & Dependencies.
• Manage communication management plan against different kind of projects as per need.
• Manage stakeholders, cost, scope & budget of projects.

Requirements:

• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and problem-solving abilities to deal with cross-functional team issues.
• Excellent understanding of the software development cycle.
• Ability to recognize technical, management, and cost risks and recommend mitigation approaches.
• Previous software development and release management experience.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
• Ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline
• Experience using Click UP/ JIRA / Zoho /Atlassian/ Slack workflow will be preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Understanding of business processes of trade, logistics, supply chain, E-commerce, transport will be an added advantage
• Project management background/experience
• PMP and/or ITIL certifications (desired, not required)
• Knowledge of PMI / PRINCE2 methodology.

Qualification & Experience:

• Masters / MBA-MIS / MBA Project Management, MS Project Management or bachelor’s degree in computer science/ project management/ computer engineering from HEC recognized University.
• 3 Years - 6 Years in managing IT and software development projects.

Skills