Associate Manager - Kochi, India - 2Base Technologies

Description

We are looking for an experienced Associate Manager - Projects to manage the organization of key client projects. As our project manager, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the go-to person for everything involving a project's organization and timeline.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage project plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocations
• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders
• Ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies
• Coordinate and communicate project progress and status updates to stakeholders
• Manage project teams, including internal staff and external vendors and contractors
• Facilitate team meetings, including kick-off meetings, status update meetings, and project close-out meetings
• Ensure that project documentation is complete and up-to-date, including project charters, project plans, risk logs, issue logs, and status reports
• Conduct post-project evaluations and make recommendations for process improvements
• Ensure that projects adhere to company policies, procedures, and quality standards
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including customers, vendors, and business partners
• Build high performing team through training, mentoring and on-the-job delivery.
• Assist Project Manager in governance of development, design, systems integration and testing activities for multiple projects.
• Organize, attend and document meeting minutes for various project and team meetings. Coordinate and track action items for follow-up
• Preparation, updating, and maintenance of various team administrative documents including project/task/time trackers, resource forecasts, issue logs, etc.
• Mentor team members and monitor their daily performance.
• Expertise in agile development technologies like SCRUM Maintains effective communication and working relationships with customers and team members.
• Organizes and conducts project team meetings.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the team, ensuring the use of our resources well, following best practices and meeting the company's goals.
• Carries out discussion with team on functional and nonfunctional requirement specifications of the product to be delivered.
• Assists and advises on the process improvements needed in the design look and feel of the service to be delivered.
• Ensures use of the tools and expertise to formulate the most effective strategy for timely delivery.
• Plans and evaluates the development of various modules as segregated by the developer for the completion of the assigned work.
• Govern the integration of the modules for the successful completion of the project by coordinating with different streams.
• Creates capacity within the Company to bring in high standards of design and development.

Requirements

• Experience with Web and mobile projects is an added advantage.
• Experience working with an agile software development team.
• Strong proofreading/grammar skills for technical documents.
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills who values communication, collaboration, and coordination.
• Proven success as a problem-solver, possesses data-driven yet common sense approach to execution.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to learn and utilize new software as required.

Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education, training, and experience.
• 4-8 years of coordinating or managing projects in the IT industry.