Project ManagerLocation: Santa Clara, CA 5-days onsite Duration: Long termMust Have SkillsSkill 1 – This role is for a project manager who is extremely strong in making presentation with hands on exp in MS office suite and MS PowerPoint.Skill 2 - The candidate must be proficient in creating PowerPoint for executives.Job Description: This role is for a project manager who is extremely strong in making presentation with hands on exp in MS office suite and MS PowerPoint. The candidate must be proficient in creating PowerPoint presentations for executive leadership. Successful candidate must be capable on Microsoft office suite with hands-on experience in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Along with project management skills successful candidate must be proficient in creating PowerPoint presentations for executive leadership.Perform end-to-end management of the project with time and effort based or deliverable based model; by delivering the agreed scope within the agreed timeline and cost. Ensure the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met enhancing customer satisfaction.Outcomes:Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)Maintain regular communication with customer; addressing needs through empathy with their environmentDefine activities responsibilities critical milestones resources skills needs interfaces and budget.Optimize costs and time utilization minimize waste and deliver projects on time.Anticipate all possible risk manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; while developing contingency plans.Implement the governance model defined for similar projectsTrack and reports project KPIs and analyze project healthProvide individual and team mentoring; ensuring high levels of team engagement and developing capabilities within teamMeasures of Outcomes:Sprint velocity/team productivityPlanned schedule vs actualPlanned effort vs actualPlanned cost vs actualRetention Requirement stability and effectiveness of scope change managementProduct quality (rework effort defect density defect leakage in various phases and number of rejected defects)Risk management indexAdoption of reusable components and artefactsCustomer satisfactionTeam satisfactionOutputs Expected. Scope Management : Conduct requirements analysis requirements elicitation scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents traceability matrix bridge documents analysis methodologies and solution artefacts Partner with the customer to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization Estimation and Resource Planning: Consolidate estimates at a solution level evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint with assumptions scope and boundaries defined Review and validate estimates across service lines Conduct resource planning (pyramid people development) at a project level based on project requirements Conduct impact analysis for changes and analyze corresponding impact to overall estimates and resource loading Identify the different roles and skills for each role considering the constraints pre-requisites and other project specific KPIs Project/ Schedule Management: Plan and manage multiple small projects/ modules as defined within UST Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple small projects/ modules Anticipate items that cause schedule delays schedule dependencies and manage them following the proper risk management plan Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same Estimate the work plan and track the activities closely and report the progress on a regular basis Risk/Issue management: Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact the project KPIs.
Obtain agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on the plan Identify and closely track the risks in the project and follow escalation path Document the risks and issues in the project communicate them to all relevant stakeholders and closely track the impact Stakeholder Management.