Job Description:
Responsible for all aspects of the project over the entire project life cycle with emphasis on effective management of project scope, schedule, financials, quality and communications.
Experience with applications implementation with knowledge of the infrastructure that the applications are deployed on.
Play a critical role in managing stakeholders from the project level to the executive management level, through regular project meetings and steering committee meetings.
Drive alignment/transparency across the multiple stakeholders via appropriate meetings and status reports to executive IT and business leadership.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams.
Exposed to the culture of working with distributed teams across Asia and rest-of-the world as well as flexibility to adapt to accommodate time zones across Asia and globally
Conducting weekly status meeting with project managers of in-scope applications.
Reporting status to Program Management Office on status and progress of delivery.
Worked in a vendor environment and delivering professional services to clients.
Good knowledge of project management methodology, tools and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management).
Familiar and proficient in project management methodologies – AGILE, SDLC and Prototyping.
Representing application stream in defect management sessions across all test phases – issue triage, issue prioritization, defect fix planning and delivery.
Highlighting issues and risks in application delivery stream and ensure quality fixes are provided.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Excellent knowledge of PowerPoint to help client prepare reporting presentations.
Job Requirements:
Minimum 3-5 years of project management experience with 8-10 years of working experience.
Strengths in communication, stakeholder management, vendor management, documentation and presentation.
Support on the program/project regular meeting (e.g. set up meetings, prepare the slides deck, take minutes etc.)
The position will be stationed at client site, some travel may be required.
PMP certification is preferred but not mandatory.
Agile certification is preferred but not mandatory.
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