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Project Manager

Sri Lanka    Full-time    NA

Position Overview: We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing leadership to delivery teams by defining project goals, meeting the stakeholder expectations within defined time-frames and budgets to deliver projects through organizing, planning & executing the plan.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Have progressive experience in gathering, documenting, and communicating business requirements
  • Establish project plans with the teams to track progress and use appropriate verification. techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and resourcing
  • Ensure that all projects are delivered within budget, scope and delivered on time, while providing periodic reporting of statuses to all stakeholders
  • Have experience with projects requiring knowledge of project management principles, agile, scrum, methodologies, and best practices
  • Ensure technical feasibility, assist in project scope & objectives with the involvement of all stakeholders
  • Lead estimating and planning project timelines and milestones, and administering task schedules
  • Perform proactive RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies) management for smooth delivery of projects with timely escalations if required
  • Lead, mentor & coach the team/stakeholders on the agile/SAFE principles
  • Lead coordinating internal resources and Client/vendors for the flawless execution of the project deliveries
  • Lead & manage the establishment of project KPIs and success measurements
  • Lead & manage the rollout of procedure, including driving the success of the mandate, and the identification and removal of implementation roadblocks


Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent qualification in Computer Science or equivalent study and work experience
  • End-to-end project management experience over 5+ years as a project manager and/or a scrum master
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills together with a commitment to all-round quality
  • Excellent communication skills & self-driven in managing multiple projects/teams
  • Good understanding of PM metrics for tracking
  • Strong leadership & organisational skills with a self-motivated & a positive attitude
  • Experience in project management tools such as Rally, Jira is required
  • Experience in Program and Scrum Agile Framework Management
  • Experience in SQL Access Tableau is a plus
  • Professional certifications on Project Management. (PMP, CSM (Certified Scrum Master) etc.)
  • Proven analytical, problem-solving nature with a creative mindset demonstrating teamwork, excellence & innovation