As a member of Grey Orange project management team, you will work closely with all the key stake holders of a project and will ensure that, everybody aligned towards successful project delivery within in the committed timeline and budget.As a Project Manager, you are expected demonstrate strong project management skills and global best practices and strong process to deliver multiple projects simultaneously and seamlessly and to own & drive implementation programs across geographies.The ideal candidate will understand that customer satisfaction, advanced planning, cross functional co-ordination, Pro-active & Seamless communication, Budget control & Continual improvements are the key success factors of a project, we expect that our project managers will follow the global best practices, SOPs, implementation methods for successful project delivery and to have a happy customer.As a project manager you are expected to work closely with Professional services, Products & Engineering, Manufacturing, client support, customer success and with Customer teams.The below roles & responsibilities are indicative of the expectations of GreyOrange from your job role. However, your impact on the organization and hence the responsibilities evolve over time and hence the below are not exhaustive or limiting your position at any point.
Responsibilities
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- Pre-sales phase.
- Understanding customer requirements
- Define project implementation strategies considering geographical, Solution & Integration, delivery timeline challenges
- Preparing high level project timeline
- Work closely with proposals teams in creating and reviewing effort estimates for services
- Projects planning phase
- Successful transition of project from sales team to delivery
- Understand the contract & define project scope, key deliverables and major milestones
- Set up the project charter, communication channels, cadence
- Co-ordinate and collaborate with customer and internal cross functional teams and define the gap analysis
- Prepare Project success criteria – Timelines, KPI, budget and establish the baseline
- Ensure all standard project process are being followed
- Projects Delivery phase
- Closely monitor the project progress in terms timelines, budget and major milestones
- Ensure seamless communication flow between customer and all key stake holders
- Ensure key customer deliverables on-time, such as site readiness, infra& resources
- Coordinate with supply chain teams and ensure on time hardware delivery
- Closely monitor the progress of testing and timely update of any delay’s issues
- Create / Track / Escalate (Issue management) any bugs identified through JIRA
- Projects Execution phase
- Ensure cross functional teams resource allocation and travel planning.
- Ensure customer site readiness duly validated and delivered on time.
- Ensure our software readiness and deployment
- Coordinate with regional teams – Customer – HQ teams for integration testing
- Setup and lead war room if required based on RPM request
- Help RPM in tracking UAT test plan
- Help RPM in publishing / updating KPI monitoring and ramp up plan
- Co-ordinate with RPM for successful closure of NPD tickets and handover of project to Client services
- Co-ordinate with RPM and publish all the handover signoff documents on confluence and project closure report
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s engineering degree in IE / EE/ EC / ME with 7+ years of exp
- Master’s degree or MBA in Operations management / Project management will be preferred
- Rich project management experience with subject matter expertise in these industries: Warehousing, Supply chain, Logistics, Manufacturing, Automobile, Oil & Gas.
- 5+ years of experience spanning across following practices: Project / Program management, Change management, Consulting, P&L & People Management.
- 1+ years of experience in Warehouse operations & E2E project management of warehouse automation (or) distribution center commissioning
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and organizational agility.
- PMI – ACP / PMI - PMP / prince -1 / CSM certifications will be an added advantage
- Good data crunching skills, ability to analyze complex problems and find appropriate solutions
- Ability to interact, inspire and influence cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication, execution, quantitative skills combined with creativity and negotiation abilities.
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