Digital & IT Project Manager - Operations

About Company

Our client is a Communities Foundation that works in the area of skilling and livelihoods for underserved youth. This is a pioneering program with a strong PPP model, an agency-led approach to livelihoods and a vision of socio-economic transformation.

Roles and Responsibilities

● Independently lead centers for enabling at least 20% of youth from the nearby

communities to be formal jobs/self-employed

● Develop and maintain a conducive environment at the center that enables learning and a feeling of safe space for youth

● Implement the foundation program such that the youth builds ‘agency’ and over time does not need to depend on the Lighthouse Source

● Manage a team of 3-5 and handhold them for timely deliverables and high-quality

outcomes for all of the stages of the program - Community Outreach to Alumni

● Interfacing with ward–level networks

● Government (Corporators, Ward Officers, PMC personnel) – for mobilization and other

support

● NGOs – for mobilization and other support

● Corporates and Establishments – for volunteering, placements and donor/potential

donor visits

● Citizens – for volunteering

● Manage brand-building activities e.g., Events, which are specific to the center and help with advocacy with the local economy for youth placements.

Requirements

● MSW or Post Graduation in any field, with 8+ years of experience preferably in both social

and corporate sectors.

● Self-driven, excellent time management and multitasking skills

● Strong people management, project management, and data analytics skill

● Strong orientation towards relationship-building and problem-solving

● Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and the local language

● Proven ability to plan and manage the operational process for maximum efficiency and

productivity

Responsibilities for Project Manager

• Complete responsibility of assigned project like coordination with client, time management, team management, budgeting and brainstorming on tricky code.

• Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects

 • Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones

 • Hold regular team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects

 • Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for staff members required for specific projects or initiatives

• Recruit and train exceptional employees to fulfill posted positions within the technical department.

Qualifications for Project Manager

·      Bachelor's degree is Must

·      1-3 of project management and related experience

·      Proven ability to solve problems creatively

·      Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices

·      Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle

·      Excellent analytical skills

·      Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful

·      Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC

·      Experience in Agile methodology and sprint planning

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for managing projects to make sure the proposed plan adheres to the timeline, budget, and scope. Their duties include planning projects in detail, setting schedules for all stakeholders, and executing each step of the project for our proprietary product, with some of the World’s biggest brands across the BFSI domain. The role is cross-functional and requires the individual to own and push through projects that touch upon business, operations, technology, marketing, and client experience. 

• 5-7 years of experience in technical project management.

• Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition is mandatory.

• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the project/product lifecycle.

• Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

• Prior experience in Fintech, Blockchain, and/or BFSI domain will be an added advantage.

• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods.

• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define project requirements and scope.

Project Management officer

The Job in short

As a Project Management Officer, you will be part of the Customer Success (CS) department. We undertake exciting projects at top-tier banks all over the world to implement our online banking solutions.

Your task is to manage projects all around the world and be a bridge between Backbase internal teams and our clients.

Meet the job

Backbase is a fast-growing and dynamic environment. Taking upon this position means that you will be a key person in providing effective coordination and communication among all the project stakeholders.

You will be expected to support customers/partners and advise clients on implementing their online applications using Backbase Solution to its full potential.

How about you

● You are a solid project manager (3+ years) who is result driven and ready to adapt to a constantly changing environment;

● You have 3-8 years of work experience.

● Manage the Support team which is a mix of BE/FE/Mobile engineers ensuring they are aligned to the goal of assisting in fixing Incidents/Service Requests/Upgrades (Backbase products) created by Clients and SI Partner teams on the existing applications.

● Client Stakeholder management - Align with various client stakeholders from different departments like Business and IT in ensuring smooth execution of the service offered by the BB dedicated support team.

● Act as an escalation point of contact to clients in case of any major disruption to service.

● Create Weekly Reports to provide an overview of the support team performance on tickets separately for client stakeholders and Backbase Management.

● Chair the daily sync-up calls with the Team, and separate weekly alignments with Client stakeholders & BB Internal Management.

● Good to have in full-cycle project management, ideally starting with requirements gathering, proposal preparation, integration of partner solutions/products, as well as planning (project plan, resource allocation, cost calculation), supporting sales and pre-sales as and when required;

● You jump on opportunities to collaborate with colleagues and clients and enjoy being an accelerator;

● You are very much hands-on and have the mentality to get things done;

● Proficiency in English is an absolute must since you will be dealing with clients across the globe;

● Additional local languages are most welcome;

● We are extra delighted if you have experience in the finance industry.

·        Prepare and manage project plans (project, release, sprint) with clear achievable milestones

·        Identify risks and dependencies for the projects he manages.

·        Ensure the project is implemented on time within contractual obligations.

·        Responsible for scope management and change management.

·        Follow-up with customers to resolve any dependencies and help manage issues/bottlenecks in implementation.

·        Conduct regular project review meetings.

·        Be an escalation point for implementation team to coordinate with various partners to eliminate any bottlenecks or mitigate any risks.

·        Communicate status to senior management and customers regularly.

·        Should have the ability to manage multiple projects in parallel for various customers.

·        Able to identify impact on project plan due to new changes coming up during the project execution.

·        Interface with customers and understand functional requirements and objectives

·        Working closely with customer’s / business analysts / technical architects for ensuring that right design and architecture is agreed up on for the projects.

·        Escalate issues to senior management or customer if required appropriately

·        Able to influence and implement the best practices of Agile across project teams

·        Ensure compliance with development standards, development process and the documentation requirements.

·        Continuous learning to keep abreast with developments in technology.

·        Provide guidance on functional and technical matters to all the members in the team, if required take support from external team members.

·        Participate in presentations and demonstrations of the software to customers.

·        Identify training needs for the project team to improve productivity and quality of delivery

·        Build a strong team to manage and execute the projects

·        Work with team continuously to resolve conflicts or roadblocks they have to accomplish their tasks

·        Have a periodic 1 x 1 discussion with the team members provide support where required and nominate team/peer for their achievements

·        Understand employee grievances and take initiatives to address and resolve them

·        Participate in any proposal activities as part of pre-sales activities

·        Develops excellent customer relationship and delivers great customer satisfaction

·        Displays good subject matter and technical expertise

·        Displays good people management skills

·        Retention of the key team members with high motivation

·        Demonstrates ability to follow the existing processes and strives to improve and adapt to new processes

·        Show great productivity and excellent quality deliverables.

·        Provides excellent managerial and technical leadership to the team

The ideal candidate is an analytical team player who will be responsible for getting things done, identifying the critical issues within the existing product, skilled in problem solving, planned execution and finally evaluating the solution. Ability to work with a team of high performing individuals, also work cross-functionally to complete product roadmaps and discover new opportunities.

Work Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with senior leadership in Product, Technology, Business, Marketing and Design team to articulate business needs to actionable product requirements.
2. Take complete ownership of the products, refining the existing features in the product. Working on new features, identifying the user requirements and ultimately improving the lifetime of the users using our product.
3. A basic understanding of qualitative and quantitative methods for user research. Establish a closed feedback loop with users & Synthesizing user needs and insights into simple yet delightful experiences.
4. Periodically conduct user-research, industry analysis, competitor mapping and ideate on what to build next. Compile information from various sources to formulate a current picture of the company and market.
5. Improving the user journey, reducing the drop-off rates.
6. Obsess with data, define and track key metrics and draw actionable insights using data. Establish KPIs, and conduct quality assessments
7. Help define Product Roadmap for new offerings aligned with the broader company vision and yearly targets
8. Work with cross-functional team to take something from idea to hands of users
9. Maximize the efficiency of all business procedures, Dissect product analytics and user behavior patterns into meaningful insights that grow the product.

Skills Required:

• Tech background with a good understanding of technology, data and building products. 2-6 years of experience in Product Management, Software Development, Analytics or similar roles in a consumer internet product set-up.
• A strong product sense, attention to the little big details, and eye for good visual design.
• Capable of taking business metrics, requirements or user problems and breaking them into workable product requirements, and leading the development of identified features
• Excellent presentation & communication, problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills to get the team on board with your vision
• Able to multitask, prioritize, work autonomously and with great time management skills
• Prior track record of working with product team from research phases through engineering to success would be highly preferred.