Junior Project Manager, 3 months in Bangalore (Hybrid, 1-2 times onsite/week)

Location – offshore - Bangalore 1-2 times onsite/week will be required

Background

The Delivery SME will deliver high-quality solutions that meet business requirements, drive technological advancements, and provide subject matter expertise in specific functional/technical areas.

Facilitate engineering alignment across the domain, by promoting modern software engineering principles, fostering technical synergies across teams and service areas as well as leading the implementation of engineering initiatives at (sub-) domain level.

The scope of the consultant services is to assist in:

• Has passion for delivering projects and programs and brings in strong culture of accountability and proactiveness.

• Delivers full scope of solutions/projects/programs on schedule, with zero defects and within budget.

• Brings deep expertise in various methodologies and applies the same to drive outcomes and unlock/enable business value with practical, simple and cost-conscious actions.

• As a hands-on delivery manager, you will be responsible to drive end to end from planning to go live and beyond.

• Must drive a team working in a matrix organization under various stakeholders

• Has strong communication skills and uses them towards effective stakeholder communications, project reporting and providing the needed and timely visibility and transparency to various teams, leadership and stakeholders.

Day-to-day tasks

Stakeholder Management

• Identifying key stakeholders and their needs, interests, and expectations.

• Cultivating strong relationships with stakeholders, including business stakeholders, clients, internal teams, and external partners.

• Effective communication skills which drive clarity and purpose, while being compassionate. This includes but not limited to active listening, messaging and seeking and receiving response.

• Communicating effectively with stakeholders, ensuring they are informed of project progress, risks, and opportunities in a timely manner.

• Managing stakeholder expectations and addressing concerns proactively.

• Understanding and Leveraging stakeholder feedback to drive improvements and maintain a high level of satisfaction.

Delivery, Planning and Execution

• Applies the in-depth understanding of various delivery models and methodologies, project processes and retail industry practices to deliver outcomes with speed and agility.

• Has a deep understanding of SAP platforms, business and functional domain and is able to apply this knowledge to ask the relevant questions and steer the team towards effective outcomes aligned to strategic objectives.

• Build detailed project plan across business, technology, data, change management and testing tracks. Identify the dependencies between the track and the risk to milestones

• Drive the day-to-day execution across tracks run by a mix of matrix organization and suppliers

• Manages communications, reporting and escalation to the relevant team, leadership and stakeholders in a timely and effective manner.

• Ensures deliverables, stage gate criteria and other delivery relevant activities and associated risks are completed and communicated in a timely manner.

• Ensures delivery of full scope of solutions/projectss on schedule, with zero defects and within budget.

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making:

• Applies critical thinking and problem-solving skills to analyzing and navigate complex issues and identifying creative and effective solutions.

• Develops understanding and knowledge of existing solutions within the technology-process-delivery ecosystem and weighs various options to make decisions on build/reuse existing solutions & capabilities.

• Making well-informed decisions based on data, insights, and stakeholder input.

• Handling crises and high-pressure situations with composure and sound judgment.

• Encouraging a culture of problem-solving and innovation within the team. Establishes a strong can-da mindset within the team.

Requirements:

7+ years proven experience in delivering medium-large, complex projects/programs across multiple countries.

• Must lead by example in line with our values and leadership compass.

• Strong knowledge of the SAP platform and retail domain. Should demonstrate strong rooting in relevant content, be it technology or function.

• Have been a practitioner, and have a strong understanding of various project management and agile frameworks and are able to apply them as needed to drive projects/programs with predictability towards desired outcomes.

• Strong formal communication skills verbal, written, presentation, etc.

• Ability to deliver outcomes and unlock/enable business value in complex ecosystems, /project. Strong Planning, execution and risk management skills

• Must have demonstrated ability to identify, Plan and execute for the holistic delivery, by identifying cross functional, cross team dependencies and taking the needed actions to resolve them proactively and in a timely manner.

• Makes effective decisions with speed, based on facts and logic, collaboratively & aligning relevant teams, leadership and stakeholders.

• Strong execution capabilities with ability to do hands-on work on SAP programs.

• Must have deep knowledge in at least one of the SAP modules and should have played senior roles.

• Must have ability to build project plans for large and complex projects cutting across Technology,Data, Change management and Business workstreams

• Leverages critical thinking, conducts holistic & in-depth analysis to bring effective solutions/ processes that drive business and organization agility.

• Ability to effectively challenge supplier solutions, delivery by leveraging the techno-functional content knowledge combined with delivery capability.• Must have accountability and ownership mindset.

• Exhibits strong drive, judgement, and initiative to deliver effectively and holistically.

• Have strong rigor & perseverance and analyses issues in depth to find effective and long term solutions.

• Broad knowledge of the latest advancements, best practices, and innovations in relevant technologies

• Strong understanding of business processes and how they align with big retail solutions.

What 3 things from the box above are most important

• 7+ years proven experience in delivering medium-large, complex projects/programs across multiple countries.
• Should demonstrate strong rooting in relevant content, be it technology or function.
• Strong knowledge of the SAP platform and retail domain. Should demonstrate strong rooting in relevant content, be it technology or function.