Position Details: Junior Project Manager

Description:

Position Overview: We are seeking a dynamic and versatile professional to join our team as a Junior Project Manager. This role, requiring affinity to leadership, management skills, and exposure in agile methodologies. The ideal candidate will possess a solid understanding of delivery principles, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive collaboration and productivity within cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management:

• Lead and manage the end-to-end delivery, including team planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Develop delivery plans, including scope, timelines, resources, and budgets, and ensure adherence to project objectives and constraints.
• Define and track delivery milestones, deliverables, and dependencies, proactively identifying and addressing any issues or risks.
• Manage budgets, track expenditures, and ensure effective resource allocation and utilization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish delivery goals(scope, schedule, cost, and quality) objectives, and success criteria.
• Understand and collect metrics and derive action items based on the metrics (both waterfall and agile projects).
• organization and continuous improvement.
• Ensure transparency and provide regular updates to stakeholders on project progress, risks, and dependencies.

Team Leadership:

• promoting a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Foster a positive and productive work environment, encouraging teamwork, open communication, and knowledge sharing.
• Set clear expectations for team members, define roles and responsibilities, and support their professional growth and development.
• Resolve conflicts or issues within the team, promoting effective problem-solving and decision-making.

Stakeholder Management:

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including clients, senior management, and other project teams or PODs.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing regular project updates, managing expectations, and addressing any concerns or issues.
• Identify and manage stakeholder requirements and expectations, ensuring alignment with delivery objectives and deliverables.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the team and organization, leveraging agile principles and best practices.
• Conduct retrospectives to identify areas for improvement in the team's processes, communication, and collaboration.
• Implement process enhancements and share lessons learned to optimize project delivery.

Quality Management:

• Act as a custodian of the quality Management systems, process, templates and documents
• Conduct process audits
• Undergo external quality audits and remediate gaps(Like ISO / CMMI)
• Take active role in Organization’s certifications(Like ISO / CMMI)

Qualifications and Skills:

• Ideally an MBA graduate in IT management or any professional / Master graduate in IT stream
• Experience/internship in similar capacity for at least six months
• Candidate with 2-3 years of experience and looking for a change also can be considered
• Knowledge in Agile Management and at least 1 agile tool (Jira / VersionOne / ServiceNow)
• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, knowledge management skills with the ability to make informed decisions and manage risks.
• Knowledge in quality management systems like ISO / CMMI
• Proficient in MS-Office

As a Junior PM, you will play a critical role in successfully delivering projects by combining strong management skills with agile principles. Your ability to lead teams, drive collaboration, and ensure project success will be instrumental in achieving the organization's objectives.

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