Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
A Project Management Office (PMO) is a management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques. PMO also operates at strategic level working with the leadership team to provide supports on project portfolio management best practices, provides coordination of projects/programs across functional areas, and drives continuous improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Interact with projects sponsors, stakeholders and multiple business and technical teams to define and deliver complex features
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and identify trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
- Plan and manage multiple parallel projects and maximize resources for the greater good of the organization
- Identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
- Create, maintain, and disseminate program/project information to stakeholders
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
- Be the glue that can understand, plan, and manage the cross-team inter-dependencies for complex systems
- Communicate program/project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner
- Build and maintain integrated program/project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, numerous constraints, and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays while still being aggressive
- Remain flexible to changing priorities, open to new ideas and can adapt to changes
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives at the operational and tactical levels
- Mentor and coach others internal and external to the PMO at the project level
- Hands-on and/or supervisory tasks related to system administrative and data analysis
Qualifications & Skills
- Minimum of 2 years of project management in a large-scale environment preferably for professional services organization
- Understanding of operations of Professional Service organization, including: revenue and bookings; budgeting and forecasting; billing and accruals; planning and monitoring performance indicators
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to convey and relate ideas to others
- Strong presentation, organization, and communication skills (written and verbal) with both technical and non-technical parties
- Passion, energy, personal accountability, and a desire to lead others to excellence
- Experience in building Change Management function within a large-scale enterprise environment preferred
- Experience and discipline to incorporate Quality Assurance practices in all deliverables.
- Understanding of continuous improvement concepts including Six Sigma, Lean, value stream mapping preferred
- Bachelor s degree in a related field
- PMP certification preferred
Preferred technical skills:
o Knowledge and/or experience in project management, application design, system integrations and cloud computing (specifically SFDC, Hadoop, NetSuite, Smartsheet, Integrations using APIs)
o Knowledge and/or experience in computer systems, web services architecture, database management systems
o Knowledge and/or experience in programming languages and operating systems
o Familiarity with SQL and database operations
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