Project Head- Real Estate

• Handling product and process development, nutrition profiling, claims development, shelf life testing, manufacturing scale up
• Managing projects - working with team on product, process, packaging development, regulatory, nutrition, manufacturing scaling up
• Being the point of contact for client - weekly project tracking, working with the client and other stakeholders to ensure on time in full delivery of the project

Desired Candidate Profile

Our Company

Tealbox Digital is a data driven performance marketing agency based out of India, servicing high growth startups with growth marketing strategy and execution. We’re a team of media buyers, data scientists, engineers, copywriters, and marketing automation experts all coming together to solve a large problem statement within the performance marketing industry.

We work with 7-8 figure businesses, and consistently deliver profitable results for them. Some of our clients have gone on and gotten acquired successfully by other startups, while others have gone on to raise funds and scale up rapidly.

Job Description

We are looking for individuals who are natural leaders and have the ability to recognise what needs to be done. We require candidates with strong written & verbal communication skills and who are analytical thinkers. The ideal candidate will need to be able to effectively understand deliverables and articulate recommended actions.

• Interacting with clients, understanding the scope of work, their business and managing timelines for deliverables.
• Understanding & prioritizing internal deliverables to manage various project timelines.
• Coordinating with internal resources and third parties or vendors for hassle-free execution of projects.
• Adhering to stipulated deadlines while maintaining scope.
• Executing detailed project plans to track progress on a regular basis and addressing bottlenecks whenever they arise.
• Maintaining comprehensive project documentation for future reference and compliance.
• Minimizing risks and errors by implementing risk management procedures.
• Ownership for quality as well as the results achieved.
• Keeping an eye on deliveries and making sure they’re on brief, meet brand guidelines, and are delivered free of errors.
• Go beyond the brief to spot opportunities and problems, and offer solutions proactively
• Understanding new trends driving user expectations and behaviors.

Requirements

• 0-2 years of experience with an aptitude to pick up new skills.
• Stellar communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Someone who welcomes feedback and criticism and enjoys working in a collaborative, iterative, and agile process.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Handle a portfolio of projects and clients in parallel from Fortune 1000 companies and across geographies.
• Plan for a quarter ahead and develop an execution plan for projects and people in the team. Need to be ahead of both client and internal resources in planning and execution.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with product delivery, the sales team, client and account managers.
• Make sure that the projects are achieving promised business value/RoI and figure out ways to achieve it if there is a gap.
• Build Rapport with clients and manage those effectively, high end consulting touch would be required
• Manage escalations, variations, complexities in projects effectively.
• Able to effectively use the established frameworks in project execution, client handling, resource utilization, resource mentoring etc.
• Directly supervises functional consultants, solution architects; conducts employee performance reviews/evaluations and career development discussions
• Manage up- Make sure to keep the higher management honest and able to strike a right balance between issues/items that are to be escalated vs that are to be handled.

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree (preferably from a top reputed university) 
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills with small and large groups
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand Fortune 1000 client business complexities and handle those

Experience:

• Overall 8+  years of professional services experience with extensive experience in customer facing  roles and involved in requirements gathering, gap analysis, feasibility study etc.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as Project manager or equivalent role demonstrating management and leadership experience, preferably in a fast paced consulting / professional services set-up.
• Minimum 1 year of experience managing large portfolio, leading cross-functional teams and tracking the project progress against the plans
• Experience in leading and mentoring people as part of the project life cycle.
• Experience in following the established processes/standards/templates to achieve successful results.
• Experience with Invoice-to-Cash related business process is desirable

Critical Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team management and collaboration skills
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Ability to negotiate with stakeholders and have challenging discussions
• Proven problem solving, risk mitigation and analytical skills
• Excellent team and interpersonal skills
• Strong ownership to drive the projects from start to finish with maximum client delight

• Contributing to design and planning of Physical infrastructure
• Performing installation of applications.
• Providing Application Operations
• Performing day-to-day Application administrations tasks
• Providing support for the transition of applications in operations
• Performing monitoring of the IT infrastructure services /application
• Contributing to onboarding of Supported Applications onto Monitoring Platform · Performing batch management & scheduling
• Operations of Application Platforms and applications
• Provision of a Provider System Responsible as a Point of contact for the Application Owner for all Operational topics.
• Operations Management
• Continuity Critical Applications across Production Lines
• Detailed project planning by participating in System Design of Applications
• Consulting for Technical Architecture on application design for the operating environment and plant ecosystem
• Design security concepts, monitoring checks, interfacing requirements, etc.
• Proposals in Definition & Provision of Tools, Performance Management, Application Robustness, Alerting, and Configuration · Perform application tests with business partners or application owners
• Providing Application Operations, Change Management, Problem Management
• Providing support for the transition of applications in operations

• Document business or systems as-is/ to-be process,
• Assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
• Work closely with Product Owners and
• Business stakeholders in preparing Product Backlog items
• Prepare user stories, prepare acceptance criteria for user stories and manage backlog.
• Drive business workshops to define requirements
• Develop product backlog and elaborate functional specifications for an IT solution.
• The candidate should also be able to analyze requirements
• Model as-is and to be process and support business during testing
• For stakeholders and customers, act as a bridge between the business problems and the technology solutions.

This position is responsible for leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case. 

Reporting to: PMO Lead

Job Location: Delhi NCR / Jaipur / Chennai

Experience Required: 10+ years

What You’ll Do

• Strong experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on time, on-schedule and within budget close
• Experience leading, motivating and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance
• Strong experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall
• Strong experience on documentation – Confluence or similar tools.
• Define and document project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents
• Effectively communicate project expectations to project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Addressing issues, flag risks and jointly determine mitigation approaches.
• Experience in implementing complex applications with multiple work-streams across geographically distributed teams (Onshore/Offshore model).
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations
• Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects

What You’ll Need

• Bachelors or Masters Degree (preferred) in Business / Computer Science / Engineering / MBA
• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Good listening skills.
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Proficiency in MS Excel / Google Sheets, Google Slides / MS PowerPoint
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles 

Good to have:

• PMP Certification / CSM Certification
• A background in hands-on software development
• A startup experience

• At least 8 years of total experience working with JAVA projects.
• Ability to create highly customizable Views using Relationships and Arguments.
• Knowledge of agile & scrum
• Expertise in writing/developing custom modules.
• Experience of JAVA, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Liferay.
• Understand the goals and strategy behind each project from conception through completion.

Technical Skills required:

• Good experience in handling commercial applications utilizing J2EE (including Core Java, JSP/Servlet, JDBC, Struts, Spring, iBatis/Hibernate, WebServices, Design Patterns, XML technologies, UML) .
• Good knowledge of Application/Web Servers (including Apache/JBoss/Tomcat/WebLogic) is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of Linux/Solaris environment.

Managerial Skills

• Strong leadership, project management skills, time management, and problem solving skills.
• Development with at least 2-3 years’ experience in team handling and client communication.
• Provide guidance and insight on development techniques and methodologies
• Familiarity with version control systems
• Problem solving skills Good communication skills
• Strong Team Management
• Advanced facilitation and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and team building skills, possessing diplomacy and business judgment