Project Manager II - Technical Project and Program Management

 Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Project Manager

• Develops, refines, validates and manages project plans to ensure on time and on budget delivery of major technology initiatives across the enterprise.

• Responsible for utilizing project management methods, standards, project integration as well as the coordination of all internal and external resources required to complete assigned projects.

• Provides timely and concise communications to functional leadership regarding project status and pending issues; analyzes processes and makes recommendations for optimizing resources and product delivery.

• Develops project plans based on specifications provided by the Portfolio Management staff and manages effective execution of the initiatives.

• Builds consensus among multiple process leads relative to project scope, task execution, staffing and issue resolution.

• Sourcing with vendors on behalf of the business area represented.

• Provides overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets, controls and measurements to monitor project progress.

• Identifies potential risks within the project; proactively manages issues.

• Participates in identifying project costs, resource allocation, project schedule changes and issue escalation.

• Frequently interacts with staff including business area management, portfolio managers, vendors, consultants and other contractors.

• Performs related duties as assigned.

• Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with both internal and external team members including executive business owners, product managers and vendors.

• Conduct formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction to track and measure client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendation.

• Resource and Capacity Management

Scrum Master

• Coach the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices, ceremonies, mindset, processes, methods, and effective ways of working while also helping in improving adherence to best practices.

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other scrum-related meetings.

• Guide the groups they work with by providing meaningful feedback and effectively facilitate retrospectives to pull actionable changes for the team.

• Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with both internal and external team members including executive business owners, product managers and vendors.

• Conduct formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction to track and measure client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendation.

Educational Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems or engineering

Certifications:

• PMP / Scrum Master certification / CSP / PMI-ACP / Related certification required, SaFE Certification

Work Experience:

• 10+ years of IT experience including prior Project Management experience

Skills and Knowledge:

Behavioral Skills:

• Good interpersonal skills

• Excellent relationship building skills

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

• Good group presentation skills.

• Good analytical and problem solving skills

• Good mathematical skills.

• Excellent organizational skills.

• Excellent leadership skills.

Domain Skills:

• Nice to Have: Experience of working in SAP projects

Technical Skills:

• Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers

• Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Thorough knowledge of waterfall methodologies on technically complex projects

• Strong experience around project financials / budget management and reporting, and and resource capacity management.

• Nice to have : Agile Scrum experience

• Nice to have : Experience with managing SAP development work and teams. Familiarity with SAP and/or have managed projects in an SAP environment

Tools Knowledge:

• Mandatory - Advanced Excel skills, such as data analysis, pivot tables, lookups.

• Mandatory - Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) : Jira / Azure DevOps

• Nice to Have - Experience of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Clarity, Open Workbench

Work timings: 12 pm to 9 pm IST

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Experience & Educational Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience. 4+ years of directly-related or relevant experience, preferably in IT project management or IT delivery.

Preferred Certifications:
Certified Scrum Master
Google Analytics Certification
Kaizen
Lean Six Sigma Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
SAFe Agile Certification

Skills & Knowledge:
Behavioral Skills:
Critical Thinking
Detail Oriented
Impact and Influencing
Interpersonal Communication
Multitasking
Problem Solving
Time Management

Technical Skills:
Agile Architecture Delivery
Data Management
Information Systems
Project Management
Workflow Management

Tools Knowledge:
Microsoft Office Suite
Microsoft Technology Stack (C#, SQL Server)
Oracle 8i or 10g
Programming Languages like JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Python, SQL
Project Management Support Tools - Clarity, Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence
Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) - SAP hybris preferred

What Cencora offers

​Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

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