Associate Project Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage projects that have lower to medium degree of complexity, ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope, within budget and to acceptable quality.
• Plan, monitor, and document tasks throughout a project, coordinating with internal cross functional teams, third parties and vendors to make sure all project milestones are on track.
• Work towards removal of impediments and sorting dependencies.
• Facilitate daily stand-up calls, weekly status calls and run sprints with the project team.
• Support the project team in ensuring lessons learned and retrospectives on projects are systematically collected, shared, actioned in future projects. 
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks escalating to management as needed.
• Communicate with stakeholders concerning project status, create and maintain comprehensive project documentation and review projects.
• Streamline processes and ways of working within your project teams.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALITIES

• Should have a good understanding of project management areas like scope, schedule, cost, quality, communication, Stakeholder, resource, and risk management.

• Should have knowledge about Software development life cycle.
• Strong skills on MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Azure DevOps, JIRA, MS Project.
• Functional knowledge on data analytics, statistics would be good to have.
• Should be good at verbal and written communication skills.
• Should display teamwork and work harmoniously and constructively across members from different functions. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Should have 3-5 years of project management experience.
• Certifications: PMP/Prince 2/CSM – good to have

SALARY & OTHER DETAILS

• Salary including benefits will be based on prior experience & qualifications and will match industry standards.

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