Senior Project Manager
Job Description
<p><strong>JOB PURPOSE</strong></p><p> <em>To handle project management planning and operations to ensure efficient product planning, development and release within set timeline, budget, and requirements</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li> Coordinate with Product Manager to understand product-related strategy and roadmap, prioritized initiatives, features, high-level designs, and requirements</li><li>Develop project management tools, methods, guidelines, and governance framework ensuring alignment with product-related strategy and objectives</li><li>Define new projects’ scope of work, objectives, and plan, clarify interdependencies between other projects, set key milestones and assign stakeholders to ensure timely release of products</li><li>Coordinate with Product Manager and higher management to agree on allocated budget, schedule, vendors’ pre-qualification, and selection criteria</li><li>Provide support to concerned stakeholders regarding development of RFPs, selection of vendors and contractual terms and conditions based on provided input </li><li>Conduct workshops with internal and external stakeholders to communicate project master plan, governance, templates, and tools to ensure consistent project execution and timely development and release of product</li><li>Coordinate with Product Manager to conduct pre-project risk assessment, identify preventive actions and provide feedback/advice prior to project start date</li><li>Review weekly/monthly reports to evaluate project progress ensuring alignment with project plan and budget, highlight any risk, intervene when needed and provide recommendations</li><li>Monitor and track continuously project budget and timeline to avoid deviations from plan and recommend corrective actions when needed</li><li>Act as a focal point between Product Management and Software Development teams to ensure all inquiries and pending issues are properly addressed and suggested improvements are applied </li><li>Conduct RAID analysis (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) and submit related report to higher management and Product Manager for decision making purposes: Project Reporting and Closure, Review and analyze projects’ KPIs measurement results, budget expenditures and resource utilization ratios and suggest improvement action plans </li><li>Contribute to project closure activities that include project closure reporting, product release, identification of lessons learnt and issuance of certificate of completion</li><li>Analyze vendors/suppliers’ performance reports, highlight key insights and suggest necessary actions to be taken by relevant stakeholders</li><li> Participate in the preparation of department’s strategy and roadmap </li><li>Work toward achievement of department’s strategy, objectives and KPIs </li><li>Follow the department’s plan and suggest improvements if needed</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong> JOB QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS </strong></p><ul><li>4 to 6 years of relevant experience</li><li>B. Tech in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology or master’s in business administration/master’s in computer application or other graduation/post graduate stream with relevant work experience</li></ul>
