Work closely with project teams, clients, and stakeholders to define project scope, establish milestones, manage resources and budgets, and ensure deliverables meet agreed timelines and quality standards. You will play a key role in leading teams, proactively managing risks and dependencies, maintaining transparent communication, and driving customer satisfaction while ensuring project efficiency and profitability.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to define project scope, develop detailed plans, and manage timelines.
- Ability to lead and motivate teams, build consensus, and resolve conflicts.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, active listening, and presentation skills.
- Ability to analyze problems, identify solutions, and make informed decisions.
- Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks.
- Basic understanding of software development concepts and technologies.
- Ability to adapt to changing requirements and challenges.
Job Description:
- Planning & Execution:
- Create SOWsx along with the project team including milestones to achieve customer outcomes and meet acceptance criteria.
- Immediately modify the project plan if any of the dependencies including human and compute resources is delayed and notify the client project manager.
- Hold weekly review meetings followed by a detailed progress report with the client to get an approval of the accomplishment of the last week and the goals of the next week.
- Maximise customer satisfaction and SPS profitability while meeting budgetary and time-line parameters.
- Work with accounting to ensure that the tasks are invoiced immediately upon completion as specified in the SOW.
- Team Leadership:
- Lead and motivate the software development team.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration within the team.
- Conduct team meetings, resolve conflicts, and address team issues.
- Provide guidance and support to team members.
- Risk Management:
- Identify and assess project risks.
- Develop and implement risk mitigation plans.
- Monitor and control project risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Stakeholder Management:
- Communicate project status, progress, and issues to stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and build strong relationships.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between the team and stakeholders.
- Quality Assurance:
- Ensure adherence to quality standards and best practices.
- Conduct quality reviews and inspections.
- Implement and monitor quality control processes.
- Financial Management:
- Notify practice lead of any cost over-runs and its impact on the budget, assess any possible scope creep and the need to initiate a change request.
- Initiate a project change request when requested by the customer.
Tasks:
- Analyze the Statement of Work (SOW) prepared by the project team for accuracy and completeness.
- Conduct review meetings followed by a detailed progress report with the client to review achieved accomplishments and discuss upcoming goals.
- Break down the project into tasks with dependencies, deliverables, start/end dates, number of hours, and responsible parties.
- Regularly review project expenses and notify the practice lead of any cost over-runs.
- Initiate change requests as needed and when requested by the client.
- Gather feedback from the customer to ensure satisfaction.
- Work with the accounting team to ensure tasks are invoiced immediately upon completion as specified in the SOW
- Review invoices for accuracy before submission to the client.
- Project completion on time and within budget
Qualification:
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in project management, preferably within IT, cybersecurity, or related industries.
Software Productivity Strategists is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. SPS complies with all applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees.