Info Edge - Senior Program Manager - Naukri.com

Desired candidate would be from Engineering + MBA(top tier institute) background and posses 8 to 10 years IT experience with atleast 5 years expertise in project or program management domain.

Responsibilities:

- Demonstrates the ability to see cross-functional impacts of decisions in project plans during execution.

- Understands the business objectives of the program and assumes personal accountability for success of the program against those objectives

- Own the successful delivery of the Programs through effective project management to ensure Business success for the unit and the Company

- Review overall plans for the portfolio, ensuring that all project are effectively planned in terms of priorities and deliverables

- Act as Chief Scrum master for team, support in managing & executing sprint ceremonies

- Regular interaction with team members and all the functional teams on the progress

- Excellent ability to understand and document processes and workflows

- Timely reporting of status, progress, risks, metrics, dependencies, and issues for allocated portfolio

- Publish regular and ad-hoc reports from various sources - ensure the data is accurate and identify the key lead indicators

- Manage stakeholder expectations - identify and act on urgent activities/issues

- Build a positive, collaborative working environment with all Stakeholders to deliver Programs effectively

- Identify, quantify, and track issues and risks in the project

- Assess business impact of issues and risks to the Programs

- Drive effective communication of issues and risks to the client

- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

- Identify, communicate, and implement continuous improvements activities

- Ability to roll-up sleeves and get into operational and delivery discussions

- Understands Engineering concepts and takes forward cross team discussions to closure

Qualifications:

- Engineering + MBA from Top tier institute

- 8-12 years experience including minimum 5 years expertise in project or program management domain

- Advanced communication and facilitation skills. Formal training preferred

- Advanced presentation skills. Demonstrated comfort in presenting to senior level cross functional audiences

- Demonstrated working knowledge of advanced concepts with program management approaches, tools and methodologies. PMP certification preferred

- Extensive experience in full life cycle of project management, including planning, budgeting, estimating

- Proven expertise as Chief Scrum master for team, support in managing & executing sprint ceremonies

- Good Knowledge of Engineering concepts and agile or project management tools viz. JIRA, Confluence, PowerBI etc

- Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

- Strong aptitude and attitude for working in a Matrix organization in IC role

- Well versed with Agile methodologies i.e. SCRUM & KANBAN

- CSM/PMP certified or strong knowledge of these Methodologies