Project/ Program Manager

About Zensar:

Zensar is a digital solutions company helping organizations around the world achieve new thresholds of business performance. We work with clients in banking and financial services, hi-tech and manufacturing, insurance, consumer services, and more. We prepare our clients for sustainable success through experience design, cloud technology, advanced analytics, and business acceleration.

About Job:

We are hiring a talented Project/ Program Manager professional to join our team. If you're excited to be part of a winning team, Zensar is a great place to grow your career. You'll be glad you make the right choice to join us.

As a Project/ Program Manager in the Global Architecture team, you're at the core of one of the largest services in our global organization. As part of a small group of technology experts, you will identify, recommend, and implement innovative solutions and best practices to continuously improve, expand and protect our core server and systems supporting multiple large services and all our associates, worldwide

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Experience -12 to 18 yrs

Notice Period- 0 to 15 Days Notice Period (Immediate Joiner Preferred)

Mode - WFO Hybrid Role

Location - Bangalore and Pune

Required Skills (Must Have and should meet all the below standards for qualifying to this role)

12+ years of project management experience

· Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and initiative

· High degree of competency communicating and influencing senior leadership.

· Proactive, strategic problem solver with the ability to anticipate opportunities and spot risks.

· Ability to work across functional, geographical and cultural boundaries.

· Build and maintain successful business partnerships at an individual and team level.

· Independent worker who possesses sound time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks and responsibilities.

· Mediation, arbitration and negotiation skills to resolve conflicting views and set team direction

· PMP, Lean Six Sigma or Agile Certifications are a plus.

Handle large or strategic projects or multiple projects

· Build program timelines and plans with financial, resource and material requirements

· Build and lead cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams to develop and execute action plans to address critical situations.

· Develop and present proposals and negotiate final agreements

· Build professional written and verbal communications of sophisticated situations, findings, and resolution plans in succinct, executive language.

· Interact with multiple executives who may have conflicting business priorities.

· Provide leadership with insight and learning through a combination of data analysis and cross-functional interviews.

· Deliver on-time results: meet achievements and target completion or release dates

· Ensure quality of program delivery: consistent communications and reporting, effective and detailed mitigation of risk, issue resolution, and scope management

· Drive partner satisfaction: meet/go above and beyond set by partners; adoption of program end-product and/or service(s)

· Partner cross-functionally: successful alignment, integration of relevant program components, silo-busting

• Education &/ Additional Certification's
• Certifications: PMP Preferred (not mandatory), CSM Preferred (not mandatory)
• Education: College/University degree or equivalent