Assistant Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Pre-sales phase.

• Understanding customer requirements
• Define project implementation strategies considering geographical, Solution & Integration, delivery timeline challenges
• Preparing high level project timeline
• Work closely with proposals teams in creating and reviewing effort estimates for services

Projects planning phase

• Successful transition of project from sales team to delivery
• Understand the contract & define project scope, key deliverables and major milestones
• Set up the project charter, communication channels, cadence
• Co-ordinate and collaborate with customer and internal cross functional teams and define the gap analysis
• Prepare Project success criteria – Timelines, KPI, budget and establish the baseline
• Ensure all standard project process are being followed

Projects Delivery phase

• Closely monitor the project progress in terms timelines, budget and major milestones
• Ensure seamless communication flow between customer and all key stake holders
• Ensure key customer deliverables on-time, such as site readiness, infra& resources
• Coordinate with supply chain teams and ensure on time hardware delivery
• Closely monitor the progress of testing and timely update of any delay's issues
• Create / Track / Escalate (Issue management) any bugs identified through JIRA

Projects Execution phase

• Ensure cross functional teams resource allocation and travel planning.
• Ensure customer site readiness duly validated and delivered on time.
• Ensure our software readiness and deployment
• Coordinate with regional teams – Customer – HQ teams for integration testing
• Setup and lead war room if required based on RPM request
• Help RPM in tracking UAT test plan
• Help RPM in publishing / updating KPI monitoring and ramp up plan
• Co-ordinate with RPM for successful closure of NPD tickets and handover of project to Client services
• Co-ordinate with RPM and publish all the handover signoff documents on confluence and project closure report

Requirements:

• Bachelor's engineering degree in IE / EE/ EC / ME with 7+ years of exp
• Master's degree or MBA in Operations management / Project management will be preferred
• Rich project management experience with subject matter expertise in these industries: Warehousing, Supply chain, Logistics, Manufacturing, Automobile, Oil & Gas.
• 5+ years of experience spanning across following practices: Project / Program management, Change management, Consulting, P&L & People Management.
• 1+ years of experience in Warehouse operations & E2E project management of warehouse automation (or) distribution center commissioning
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and organizational agility.
• PMI – ACP / PMI - PMP / prince -1 / CSM certifications will be an added advantage
• Good data crunching skills, ability to analyze complex problems and find appropriate solutions
• Ability to interact, inspire and influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication, execution, quantitative skills combined with creativity and negotiation abilities.