Project Director - Agri Banking

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning - Partner with relevant stakeholders to develop, communicate and own:

- As a part of the Decision Intelligence frame - To leverage data to gain key insight into business opportunities, effectively presents these insights to business stakeholders, and focus on facilitating data-driven change and creating business value.

- Strategies scope of projects from inception to closure. Define, develop, and manage implementation schedules and project budgets.

- Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional Delivery teams being the Single point of contact for delivery.

- Drive and coordinate crisis management.

Specific Responsibilities Includes:

- Improve the process of gathering, understanding, and documenting detailed business requirements using appropriate tools and techniques

- Focus on the application of analytics to drive measurable business results.

- Coordinate resources, prepare cross-functional project teams for kickoff and ensure effective completion of project milestones, control project scope, and mitigate risks.

- Partner closely with senior and executive leaders across the organization to drive operational excellence through data analytics and create new business opportunities.

- Handle client interaction, and client negotiations and build strong documentation.

- Work closely with the team to support ad hoc requests from business users and liaisoning with internal and external clients to fully understand data content.

- Work closely with the product, marketing, and business team to provide data analytics content.

- Responsible for ongoing customer support, driving adoption and customer satisfaction.

Requirements:

Qualifications:

- MBA or Master's degree in Econometrics, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

- 10 to 12 years of experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches

- Extensive background in developing and delivering complex projects throughout the lifecycle in the Agri Banking/financial services industry.

- Experience communicating quantitative analysis results

- Experience in working with big data and unstructured data in a big industrial setup.

- Good Understanding of SDLC and architecture.

- Flexible leadership style and willingness to be hands-on while building out teams and practices in a growing organization.

- Familiarity with data vendor ecosystem and leveraging of third-party data sets as extensions of first-party data

- Creative problem solver, able to build contingency plans and handle stressful situations professionally.

- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification is preferred.

Benefits:

- Opportunity to work on a unique and futuristic technology setup

- Flat organizational structure and accessibility

- Additional allowances for learning, skill development, broadband, medical insurance cover, employee assistance program, etc.