The Intermediate Project Manager is responsible for managing projects from inception to closure, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet the specified quality standards. This role involves coordinating with various stakeholders, managing risks, and ensuring effective governance throughout the project lifecycle. The Intermediate Project Manager will work closely with a team of Developers, Quality Assurers, and Business Analysts, maintaining strong relationships both internally and externally.
Qualifications and Experience:
● Bachelor's degree in business administration, IT, Engineering, or related fields.
● Certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) (Certifications in Kanban, Lean, or SAFe are also valuable).
● Certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI), showcasing a comprehensive understanding of project management principles and practices.
● Minimum of 3 Years of hands-on Project Management experience
● Proficiency in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), understanding various phases such as planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance.
● Familiarity with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) guidelines or Prince2 methodology, including process groups, knowledge areas, and best practices.
● Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to manage large-scale software development projects, coordinating multiple teams and aligning them with organisational goals.
● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
● Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written, with a keen ability to interact professionally with clients and colleagues.
Key Responsibilities:
● Project Management: Manage projects from inception to closure, ensuring adherence to time, cost, scope, and quality standards, while ensuring the execution of the project plan and managing squads and people effectively.
● Governance and Coordination: Oversee project governance, ensuring all processes and standards are followed, develop and maintain a comprehensive communication plan to keep stakeholders informed, manage risks and issues proactively ensuring timely resolution, and ensure scheduling, planning, and coordination of project activities.
● Multi-Project Management: Monitor and report on financial performance identify potential cost overruns and propose corrective actions to keep projects financially viable, ensuring projects stay within budget.
● Collaboration: Build and manage high-performing development teams, including hiring and performance management.
● Billable Utilisation: Measure and uphold billable utilization to ensure that project resources are used effectively and efficiently.
● Task and Resource Management: Assign tasks based on team members' skills and workload, allocate personnel and budget resources to project tasks, and manage project timelines by setting and adjusting deadlines as necessary.
● Risk and Issue Management: Identify and mitigate low-impact risks related to project scope, timelines, or budget and troubleshoot and resolve technical issues that arise during development.
● Scope Management: Manage project scope creep (client-requested changes) and ensure alignment with initial project goals.
● Stakeholder Management: Communicate project progress and address concerns from clients, team members, and other stakeholders.
● Budget Management: Monitor project budgets, identify potential cost overruns, and propose corrective actions.
● Client Negotiation: Negotiate project scope, timelines, and budgets with clients, balancing their needs with business objectives.
● Impact on Business: Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet client expectations, contribute to the company's profitability by controlling costs and completing projects efficiently, and, empower teams to perform at their best.
● Supervision Responsibilities: Supervise and coordinate team members and project tasks and indirectly have oversight of Business Analysts, Quality Assurers, Developers, and Development Leads assigned to projects.
Critical Technical and Behavioural Skills Required:
● Proficiency in PMBoK or Prince2 methodologies
● Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (e.g., SCRUM)
● Experience with SDLC and SAFe methodologies
● Proficient in project management software tools
● Strong financial management and reporting skills
● Risk and issue management expertise
● Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
● Customer Service Orientation
● Organised
● Result Orientation
● Conflict Resolution
● Negotiation Skills
● Time Management
● Professional Communication (written, verbal/presenting, and listening)
● Team Building and Leadership