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We are looking "Product Manager" for Reputed Client @ Permanent Role

Experience: 9 - 12 Years

Primary Skills

•BE/B-Tech/MCA/ M.Tech, 8+ years of experience in .NET Framework like C#.Net/ ASP.Net

•Minimum 8 years of experience on Web Application development , ADO.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/JQuery

•Been a Project Manager and managed a team of 6-10 people for a period of 2 years at least

•Must be able to provide hands on solutions on query writing and DB management for writing stored procedures/ user-defined functions

•Should have a very good understanding of project architecture

•Project Management, Project Control, Project Estimating, , Project Scheduling, Meets Deadlines, Project Management Tools, Communication, Microsoft Project, Project Leadership

•Quality Management Process implementation skills

Secondary Skills

•Experience in developing a product.

•Should have a solid understanding of the SDLC processes (Design, Construction, Testing, Deployment)

•Proven experience of delivering the product on-time and with quality

•Should have experience in developing ERP applications or Database Intensive Data Entry application

Desired Skills

•PMP/CSM certification

•Should have experience in Test Driven development using Nunit, Jasmine and Protractor

•Experience in project management life cycle process

•Hands on experience of configuration management and version maintenance

•Prior experience of working in the shipping domain is an added advantage.

•Hands on experience in writing technical specifications

Ability

•Excellent Communication skills

•Excellent team handling and project management skills

•Good conceptualization skills

•Strong Visualization ability

•Analytical ability

•Quality Orient

Location : Bangalore

The Role

The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring all projects are delivered using a ‘best-practice’ project delivery approach and are delivered within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality.

Deliver high-quality shippable products as per the scope of the program. He/She will understand the key requirements and scope of the project working with the Product Owner and Business stakeholders.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Understand how the product works and how it is used by customers.
• Apply strong engineering principles to drive the development and delivery of the Hotfix and minor release. This role has the ultimate responsibility to manage customer satisfaction and team engagement.
• Technically hands-on and support and guide the team members in solutions to customers and driving the best engineering practices for developing software.
• Implement the Agile frameworks in its entirety in the capacity as a flow manager. Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed and provide timely feedback.
• Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to the Project Steering Committee as per the schedule and agreed-upon metrics. Track progress and review project tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals.
• Timely Interaction with customers on/ off-site to troubleshoot issues, suggests workarounds.
• Should be able to guide/work with the technical team for quicker resolutions and achieve productivity goals for the team.
• Should be able to drive initiatives for productivity and ticket resolution quality improvement.
• Work on providing innovative ideas to improve ticket closure quality.
• Should suggest functionality in the platform to provide ways to improve turn around time for tickets
• Should drive and provide efficient ways for resolution/fixes of common issues across the customers.
• Propose ways to reduce overall tickets, operational efficiencies, and features for product to reduce the support tickets
• Should suggest better implementation for product based on usage on Production
• Should be able to suggest/implement the optimum process for a ticket raised to fix on PROD cycle
• Propose optimum process across departments at interfacing points, do regular ticket analysis and fine-tune the process
• Work on increasing supportability to product, Lead on RED account working with various departments/stakeholders.
• Ensuring Ticket Hygiene with Goal of SLA adherence. Problem and backlog management
• Contribute to knowledge base articles for both customer and internal staff to reduce troubleshooting time and drive faster issue resolution.
• Own large customers for day to day interactions with customers as required. Ensure SLAs are adhered to the accounts
• Ensure successful transition from SE, have regular connection with customers team management and attrition management.

People Management & Recruitment:

• Recruit and manage the team - Coach and Mentor the team members on career growth including performance management discussions. Be the evangelist for a high-performance culture
• Responsible for Resource planning & Optimization driving with utilization to timely deliverables.
• Should engage the team with team building and motivational activities.

What You Bring to the Team:

• 5-7years of solid experience in software product development. Should be in a manager role for at least 4+ years.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or Computers Engineering or equivalent degree in Computer Science
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organisational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality 
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles 
• SCRUM, APM and other agile certificates will be nice to have

Technical Ability:

• Should have experience in transitioning projects (Development and Maintenance).
• Past experience in Building and Managing high-performance teams.
• Exposure to the SAP Platform
• Strong Working Experience in JIRA
• Should have prior development background along with current support role.
• Strong and proven background with experience in Troubleshooting on the Mobile platform
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong orientation towards Technical and functional aspects of the product.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to prioritize the backlog.
• Understanding of customer support processes and tools.

Job Description

Delivery Manager -

• Manage a delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.

• Oversee daily activities of the delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.

• Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.

• Ensure that team maintains a high level of competence and operational excellence.

• Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.

Roles & Responsibilities

Delivery Management and Escalations

• Owns the end to end delivery of the Projects, focusing on regular and timely delivery of value

• Define project scope and schedule, define and track the Release/Project plan, milestones as per SOW/Release Plan and work closely with PO/SM for the same

• Manage risks and issues, Understand and flag risks/mitigations and dependencies along with SMs/POs appropriately and timely manner

• Prepare and provide progress reports and updates

• Manage deviations from plans and work closely with SM/PO in apprising client in case of any scope/plan changes and work towards negotiation/SOW edits/approvals or take corrective measures

• Be an escalation point for every SM and PO and Client on project-related issues and provide resolution or resolve the same in a timely manner

• Manage engagement/relationship with the client and work towards the inputs/feedback from the CSAT review

People and Team Management

• Work closely with SM in removing roadblocks to their work

• Understand and solves learning, development, and training needs of Projects and team members

• Set-up goals/Roles & Responsibilities for the group/team members

• Work closely with SM for defining the career path, performance improvement plan(PIP) for group/team-members

• Takes all Hiring decisions

• Do resource Management- allocation, projections and take all Staffing decisions in consultation with PO and SM

• Work with Agile Coach to find and execute training needs and places for improvement

• Skip-level meetings with people to see their motivation, any personal issues, inter-team conflict, etc.

• Evaluate the engagement level of the group/team members and take respective actions

• Experimenting with innovation projects, pet projects, product ideas

• Drives cultural change working along with Agile Coach

Process

• Works closely with Delivery Directors to discover challenges and access programs. Ensure review and retrospective recommendations are getting implemented in the projects and work closely with Agile Coach to address the challenges with proposed recommendations.

• Improving hiring and staffing process, future planning for the group growth

• Work with the Architects/Chief Architect in supporting him to adopt the recommended engineering practices

• Get Project/Delivery Audits done for Projects at regular intervals and take respective actions

360 Degree review

• Create a 360 view of project health metrics as per Srijan standards

• Represent 360 reviews for Project at a regular cadence and provide project updates in PM forums

• Get involved in team 360 review(quarterly/project end) and work towards the feedback of team members and facilitate appraisal decisions for group/team-members

Organizational contributions

• Participate and represent group in Strategy meet with required details

• Encourage team-members/group to participate in Organisation contributions/forums

• Be a channel for Srijan to showcase by attending, delivering, networking at meetups, presentations, sessions, workshops etc.

• Be an evangelist and help HR in hiring/onboarding

Required Skills/Experience

• Overall Experience of 10+ years in the Industry

• Good experience in Agile methodology

• Analytical skills

• Well-developed interpersonal skills

• Commercial awareness

• Effective Communication

• Team working skills

• Ability to motivate people

• Management and leadership skills

• Identify & document the Scope of Work (SOW), objectives and any assumptions.
• Prepare cost estimates for manpower + materials, and ensure we are charging accurately for our projects.
• Develop a detailed project plan, and monitor progress using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects.

• Ensure availability of all the tools and resources before initiating a project.
• Prepare and maintain timelines for the effective tracking and completion of the project.
• Delegate to internal resources and vendors effectively, and track progress ensuring the project runs on schedule.
• Coordinate with all the internal and external stakeholders for information, approvals, resolving issues, status updates, answering queries etc. While maintaining transparent communication.

• Maintain timesheet logs for all the resources.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports.
• Ensure standards and requirements are met through conducting quality assurance tests.
• Analyze and Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues ensuring the project stays on time and on budget.

• YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE- 5+ Years of relevant experience managing Digital / IT Projects.
• EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS** - We prioritize skills over degrees but Bachelors/ Masters degree/ diploma/ certification in Business, Digital Marketing, Computer Science or other relevant fields is a plus. Additional Project Management certifications like PMP/ PMI / PRINCE2 are highly desired.
• SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS- Tech-savvy with good knowledge of MS Office, and strong experience with project management software like Jira, MS Projects, Click Up, Asana, Wrike, Basecamp etc.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Quick thinking, problem solving skills
• Detail-oriented
• Budget management
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated.