Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Cabot Corporation is seeking a Project Manager to join the Digital Portfolios and Project Management Office (PMO) team at our Mumbai Office. The PMO team serves as gatekeepers of the technology portfolios, ensuring Digital alignment to the business value and compliance and ensures effectiveness and efficiency in project delivery. As a project manager, you play an important role of driving the achievement of Cabot Corp’s strategic and tactical objectives through leadership and management of programs and projects. You will collaborate with sponsors and cross-functional teams to plan and develop scope, budget, schedule, deliverables, required resources, and work plan for initiatives.
This position has the option to utilize the current flexible work arrangement/hybrid model in place.
As a key member of the Digital team, you will:
- Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, Architecture, Service Delivery teams to initiate, plan, implement and deploy initiatives (programs, projects, pilots and POCs); including the budgetary and quality control activities associated with the initiatives.
- Guide the delivery team through the cross-functional Project Delivery Life Cycle (PDLC) and leverages best practices to continuously improve and institutionalize the PDLC and best practices.
- Identify and support for the development, measurement and reporting of Project Delivery Life Cycle and Demand Management processes.
- Coordinate the program/project budget and general health of the Program/Project Portfolio
- Understand technical capabilities of underlying back-end systems.
- Keep up to date with new Software Development technologies, best practices, and trends.
- Coach teams in the best practices and tools as required for successful project management.
- Work with business stakeholders and CIO team members to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.
- Lead project execution (plan, coordinate and track all phases). Related activities include:
- Support the RFP process.
- Negotiate and manages project scope, time, budget, and quality per business needs.
- Coordinate all necessary activities inside and outside team/department to deliver Statement of Work (SOW) involving Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and secure charter approval.
- Develops WBS, manages execution, and identify and resolves issues.
- Analyze project performance by tracking specific KPIs and proposes improvements.
- Communicate project status and phases with all stakeholders.
- Train and/or support development team on Agile processes
- Support OCM as necessitated by a specific project/program.
- Ensure project closure by managing transition to operations and documenting lessons learned.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other with related work experience.
- 5+ years of related work experience in IT and business/industry.
- One to three years (or more) of leadership responsibility for large, cross-functional projects, including influencing key stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Experience working in a global/multi-national organization in a shared service organization.
- Experience in leading large, geographically distributed, and diverse teams.
- Experience in the development and management of IT processes, specifically, project management processes and software development life cycle.
- Experience in IT Budget and Cost Management.
- Relevant certifications, licenses, or registrations such as: PMI (preferred, focused on PMP); Agile-related certification; ITSM (preferred, focused on ITIL or COBIT); Domain-specific technology certifications.
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