Technical Project Manager

EMB is looking for a Product Delivery Manager to join their team! As a Product Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for monitoring and guiding the execution of all work that is delivered by our partners. You will provide excellent client service, applying the partner’s best resources and effectively managing people across departments to ensure that projects are flawlessly executed on time and on budget.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzing the structure of a business, understanding its goals, and advising technical and non-technical stakeholders on how to achieve those goals through technology.
• Being an expert and evangelist for EMB, and in how to deploy our capabilities to maximise customer success.
• Experience in Web/ Mobile App based projects is ideal
• Creating product documentation, user flows, and rough wireframes, and working with designers to refine the customer experience into a polished, shippable product.
• Communicating, translating, and simplifying business requirements to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders
• Working with the Technical team to ensure that they understand what the customer wants to achieve, all the way through to detailed specifications.
• Develop strong, trusting relationships with internal teams and clients
• Ensure flawless execution of projects
• Coordinate with the partners to develop schedules and enforce/ execute them
• Manage the project schedules to ensure completion on time. Surface any unresolved timing or resource issues with the partner
• Develop rapport and partnering relationships with key clients. Build the relationship by demonstrating a genuine sense of responsibility for the success of the business
• Manages project scopes to ensure projects stay on budget
• Involved in project-level strategy planning/development
• Develop a deeper understanding of the client’s business and the automotive environment by actively learning about business, products, and competitive environment.
• Based on knowledge of business and industry, bring forward and identify new initiatives and opportunities
• Writes presentations, POVs, test plans, and recommendations for projects
• Presents creative ideas to clients
• Understand fast past nature of business and positively respond to last-minute client requests
• Sufficient presence to be respected by clients and internally
• Understanding problems and building solution prioritization frameworks

Required Skills

• University degree (ideally in tech-related courses)
• Ideally 1-2 years of experience in an agency environment in a client service role
• Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines across multiple projects, and display strong organizational skills
• Ability to transfer knowledge from project-to-project
• Well organized
• Shows initiative and desire to learn
• Handles assigned work requests in an efficient, timely manner
• Has strong client relationship experience
• Can successfully complete projects without assistance
• Understanding of KPIs and analytics
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Use sound and logical judgment
• Displays strong problem-solving skills
• Strong client service orientation
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail
• Product-oriented problem-solving approach
• Understanding of key marketing metrics and product funnel

At EMB, Relationship is our middle name.

We employ the most innovative talent in the industry to drive digital transformation for our client's businesses and provides creative solutions to help brands grow meaningful relationships with people.

What we offer: 

• A multi-disciplinary role with tremendous opportunity to learn and grow in an early-stage startup.
• An open work culture - We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. 
• Flexible working hours and leave policy.

Description:

As the Operations Manager, you will analyse the current state operations, propose workflows and tools that drive improvements to the app or for addressing country-specific needs. Identify and execute on opportunities, to streamline workflows and increase collaboration and productivity across the team. You will proactively track risks/issues with development, ensure business requirements are met, and advocate for future enhancements. Support the leadership team in implementing new ideas effectively within the Uable culture and manage change to maximise adoption of new tools or processes. Define operational metrics and develop reporting tools as needed, for leadership to understand business performance.

Your role/responsibilities:

• Understand the operational framework and work on efficient delivery mechanisms for customer support, Event management & programme management
• Build effective processes to handle escalations ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Work closely with learning design, product, growth, analytics teams to manage/execute the right processes.
• Ability to partner with global cross-functional business partners, engineering teams, and senior management, to identify and define short-term and long-term solutions to operational challenges.
• Leadership experience in process improvement and programme management experience in startups is a plus
• Coordinating cross function for implementing and execution of events, managing communication, managing event feedback surveys, handling post-event reports.
• Manage our events calendar, assisting with event marketing, monitoring timeframes, and delivering on event brief objectives. 

Skills/Qualifications (good to have):

• Have a proactive outlook to problem-solving and willingness to adapt in a highly demanding, collaborative, and fast-paced environment with rapidly changing direction and new challenges
• Proficient in Office Suite and Lead Management Software & project management skills
• Work with the Product Owners and coordinate with project managers and other departments to get projects released on time.
• Ability to manage, monitors and measures project portfolio status, recommending corrective action as necessary, and communicate portfolio status to their management.
• Ability to participate in interviewing, hiring, and training team members; plan, assign, and direct work; appraise performance; reward and discipline team members; address complaints and resolve problems
• Relentless focus on operational excellence by setting the right processes and improving efficiency at every step and balance attention to detail with swift execution.
• Strong quantitative analytical skills and experience developing dashboards and reporting tools using spreadsheet applications, Tableau, etc. a plus.
• Knowledge of the iOS, macOS, and App Store ecosystem a plus.

Personality: 

• You are a driven and curious person with the aptitude and agility to learn. 
• You are an extrovert and a leader who has built great teams and a team player with great interpersonal skills.
• You are detail and process-oriented person by nature. A natural problem solver and a go-getter.
• You don’t settle with what-is, you constantly strive for excellence.
• You are an explorer with the ability to investigate and get the data; define and work on multiple tasks and complete work within deadlines.
• You are a clear and concise communicator with the ability to synthesize a lot of information quickly, highlight the key takeaways, and disseminate actionable insights.

Responsibilities:

• Build and develop the project team to ensure maximum performance, providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
• Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans, including risk mitigation.
• Coordinated internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments.
• Analyse project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that the project team adheres to project requirements.
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes.
• Establish and maintain processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle, set project quality, and performance standards, and assess and manage risk within, and across, multiple projects.
• Structure and manage integrated, multi-track project performance databases for multiple digital, print, social, broadcast, and experiential projects, with an eye on overall progress.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with outside resources including third-party vendors and researchers.
• Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximise deliverable outputs.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field.
• 4-11 years of project management and related experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (completed).
• 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.
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, and timeline.

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to managing end-to-end implementation project life cycle, driving optimization of operating models 
• Determine Project Scope, Objectives and Dependencies
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule, work plan and key milestones
• Determine and Define Project Resource Allocations
• Manage Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies on Project by assigning appropriate ownership and escalations
• Capture project health metrics, maintaining a central repository for all projects and project information that provide insights into processes and frameworks that work 
• Establish and execute Project Governances viz., Steerco Meetings, Weekly Cadences and Track Action Items to closure
• Conduct governance calls for ongoing projects and ensuring project commitments are being met by Darwinbox’s implementation team as well as the Client’s implementation team 
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Collaborate with Client on requirement changes and initiate change management process
•  Identify, document and update the project scope for changes
• Initiate appropriate review and approvals on the changes
• Evaluate and analyze the impact of changes and communicate with stakeholders
• Seek approvals and commitments on the scope, cost and schedule
• Ensure SOP adherence, time-logging, effectively making use/ driving adoption of Project Management tools and methodologies 
• Review/prepare Project Plans for implementation projects and monitor resource allocation 
• Identify Stakeholder Communication Requirements on project performance metrics
• Collaborate with Product Teams on Product enhancements
• Document impact and prioritize changes to Product Backlog and timelines
• Stakeholder Reporting - Preparing status reports, highlighting risks to the project timelines, proactively escalating potential red flags, and recommending mitigation solutions 
• Track Project Closure / Handover activities to downstream teams. 

General Requirements: 

• B. Tech or an equivalent degree 
• MBA or an equivalent degree is preferred but not mandatory 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to work under pressure and adaptable to change 
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills 
• Proficiency in MS Office tool.
• Any experience in MS SharePoint, MS Power Automate, Excel Macros, and Project Management Tools like JIRA, and Zoho Projects is an added advantage 
• Any Project Management (PMP/ Prince2/Agile CSM) or Agile certification is mandatory 

•  8-10 years of prior experience in a project management role is preferred with strong experience in HRMS implementation.

Project Management

• Develop the integrated project plans to determine time frame, procedures for accomplishing projects
• Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps and continued business value
• Plan and manage project closure and/or transitions
• Work with stakeholders to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables
• Conduct project reviews to recommend changes to project schedules or resource requirements
• Document and track project scope, changes, issues and risks that affect implementation
• Facilitate the daily stand-up to achieve team consensus
• Eliminate conflicts and assist in developing solutions to manage roadblocks
• Plan and manage testing cycle with customer

Customer Success

• 3-5 years experienced engineer in design; pre / post implementation tracking / successful execution on the following categories:
• Building management systems
• Security systems / cameras; sensors; beacons
• IOT implantation within campuses / buildings
• IT security systems – understanding of the way they work / get implemented
• Comfortable with client interactions and working with client’s vendors / partners

Other Areas:

• Participates periodically in client meetings or business development presentations as part of a Team to help demonstrate our capabilities. Assists with the development of marketing materials and support

Information/data. Maintains a working knowledge of business unit’s available product and service offerings.

Requirements:

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, information systems, technology, engineering are preferred.

Other disciplines are welcome to apply if you have a strong interest or sufficient knowledge in IT domains

• At least 4 years of experience in IT Project Management role and 6 years total professional experience
• Strong communication skills, well-versed in English (spoken and written) to facilitate cross border

Communications and collaborations

• Strong stakeholder management skills to communicate across various departments and levels
• Strong time management skills, detailed and results-oriented
• Familiar with startup environment and understanding of dynamics between design, engineering, product and customer service is a plus
• Experience with agile and project management software like Jira
• Committed to the values of integrity, accountability, and customer centric

What you need to have:

‘Project Manager’ will be completely responsible for building a very robust team to operationally manage, meet KPIs, build strategy, and execute the project.

• Determine and define project scope and objectives
• Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
• Prepare a budget based on the scope of work and resource requirements
• Track project costs in order to meet budget
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
• Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
• Utilize industry best practices, techniques, training, and standards throughout the entire project execution
• Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement

While working at the company also endure...

• Opportunity to work with all the top-notch growing brands and startups
• Learning marketing, integrated campaigns, and growth
• -hacking of brands in different sectors
• Becoming a part of an enthusiastic, amazing culture, and fast-growing organization
• Opportunity to become an active stakeholder and driver of the organization

What you will need:

• Graduate degree with 2-4 years of experience handling projects, campaigns, and team
• Candidate with an agency, offline marketing execution, or startup background would be preferred
• Quick learner, confident, good presentation & relation-building skills
• Open for travel and ready to go the extra mile if the situation demands
• Keen attention to detail and good at spotting opportunities
• Client/Agency relationship exposure with strong relationship management skills
• Go-Getter attitude and responsibility to close all loops creatively - Long term vision and commitment

What you need to have: