Project Manager - Sri Lanka
Discovery Partners
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