Information Technology Project Lead

Hi Applicants,

We are looking for an IT Project Lead in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai & Hyderabad locations who has experience in leading Project Managers team.

If this opportunity excites you, please apply. Meanwhile, you also write to us at sneha.j@apexgroup.com with the below details.

• Current Salary?
• Expected Salary?
• Notice period?

Responsibilities:

• Day to day management of a team of project managers – recruitment, line management, team morale, career progression & training of a team of PMs.
• Accountable for PM teams ongoing deliverables – providing technical expertise - ensuring project documentation is in place, reviewing quality of project plans and project data, ensuring milestone dates are met, ensuring changes are captured, risks & issues are being logged, etc.
• Measuring teams performance – work with PMO to provide metrics on the teams delivery performance across the projects
• Responsible for budgets – managing people cost and project cost ensuring ensuring costs are in line with agreed budgets.
• Resource management - work with Apex’s resource manager re allocation and utilisation of project team across projects.
• Work with IT teams – IT Ops, Dev, BA, QA, etc. to understand current issues around project planning/delivery and put plan in place to address same.

• Day to day management of the overall programme and work stream plans
• Identify, managed and escalate risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
• Identify, manage and escalate programme and work stream variance to maintain baseline
• Complete impact analysis and “What if “ scenario planning as required
• Setup plan review/ status meetings with internal teams and 3rd parties
• Organises and present status reviews to management team
• Produce summary level reports for senior management presentation
• Liaise with management from a resourcing perspective to ensure resourcing plans aligned
• Ensure planning documentation maintained and of adequate quality
• Ensure planning quality gates in place and achieved
• Ensure efficient communication with all stakeholders

Experience-:

• 10+ years in a planning role delivering complex projects and programmes
• 5+ years’ experience using MS Project
• 3rd Level Degree in IT Discipline or similar
• PM certification (PMP or PRINCE2)
• Agile, Waterfall delivery methodologies
• Strong leadership and influencing capabilities
• Excellent presentation skills and communication skills
• Experience in the financial services industry, and in particular the Fund Administration sector would be an advantage
• Strong relationship management skills