Project Lead

• Understand project scope, goals, and deliverables of the project.
• Effectively communicate project requirements to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion by identifying and managing project dependencies and critical paths.
• Help project team to plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project life cycle.
• Conduct project post-mortems and create recommendation reports to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple, complex projects.
• Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters, with a focus on delivering business benefits.
• Identify and resolve issues and risks proactively.
• Track and control financial objectives such as Gross Margin and Productivity.
• Should have at least 2+ years experience in delivering projects using Agile methodology.
• Must be able to create slide decks and make pitches to customers.
• Must be able to draft Statements of Work, close the scope correctly, and provide pricing based on approved rate cards.

Expectations from Business Team:

• Lead a team of project coordinators/associates.
• Act as PM for specific key projects.
• Serve as backup for project coordinators/associates during their absence or to manage peak volumes.
• Be open to play the Account Manager role when required.
• Responsible for all operational metrics and continuous improvement.
• Will eventually get into a partial or full operations role based on progression.

Job Requirements

• Around 6+ years of experience in Project Management capacity, ideally in web/application-based projects, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Experience in project management tools; familiar with MS Office and working knowledge of the latest technologies.
• Experience in SVN, Confluence, JIRA, Kanban boards, or similar service management tools would be an added advantage.
• Experience working both independently and in a team/collaborative environment is essential.
• Strong written and oral communication/presentation skills.
• Passion for networking and staying updated with the latest technology developments and applying them to various projects.
• Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products; able to learn, understand, and apply the same.
• Experience in life-science organizations would be an added advantage.
• Ability to create RCA documents and manage escalations.
• Any Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree.