Associate Project Manager

Essential:-

• Facilitate and lead project status meetings and ensuring projects are completed on time and on budget.
• Participates and supports project planning by providing project milestones and requirements.
• Manage global scheduling convergence, with support of project planner.
• Manage relationships with BU leadership, remote teams and stakeholders and vendor to support projects and understand requirement, issues, risk, etc.
• Capable of resolving and escalate issues arising from operations and resource constrains.
• Evaluating and approving changes that substantially impact the scope, budget, or schedule of a project.
• Liaison with multiple teams to implement the necessary changes.
• Establishes and define required project team by coordinating with discipline line managers.
• Develop and maintains the key documents applicable to the projects.
• Ensure that organizational and statutory standards on safety are met during project execution.
• Anticipate schedule, cost and resource deviations through trend analysis and earned value management.
• Monitors progress and performance against the project schedule.
• Takes the necessary decisions to resolve conflicts between disciplines.
• Provide strong and decisive project leadership, and direction to the team in project execution.
• Ensures that lessons learned are clearly identified, recorded, and communicated.
• Creating standard processes, best practices and tools to improve team performance and productivity.

Non-Essential:-

• Assist with any other duties as and when required.
• Undertake specific projects as instructed by management.
• Demonstrates high level of initiative to accomplish individual objectives assigned as well as team goals.
• Comply with organizational HR policies and procedures.

Qualifications

Required:-

• Graduate in any specialization
• Industrial experience of 7-10 years, with minimum 4 years of project management experience
  DESIRED
• Project Management qualification / certification

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics:-

• Intermediate or Expert level knowledge on Project management or scheduling software (e.g. Primavera, MS Project etc.)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, with intermediate to advanced Excel skills, Peoplesoft ERP, etc
• Relevant experience of effectively supporting project teams
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to communicate / work with multi-cultural team.
• Ability to write accurate and concise communications.
• Ability to work independently in most circumstances and use initiative to propose and implement changes to work practices.
• Self-Driven, positive attitude.
• Strong Analytical, problem solving & decision-making skills.
• Strong organizing and planning skills.

Location:-

• Chandigarh, India.

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