Experian - Project Manager

We at Experian India are hiring for Project Manager.

Please find attached brief snapshot of our companies profile and visit the following websites to know us better:

http://www.experian.in/

www.experianplc.com

The details of the role are as follows.

Project Design:

Define project requirements:

- Thoroughly research available alternatives for the client solution

- Use business knowledge and experience and make contact with all relevant internal and external stakeholders (including clients and potential suppliers)

- Ensure production of documentation for each stage of the project from scoping to post-implementation

- Ensure that developments follow the defined Delivery process and that project documentation meets the required standard

- Liase with appropriate areas to ensure use of best practice

Project Management:

- Manage the delivery of software solutions to clients from inception to completion:

- Responsible for assessment and communication of risk

- Negotiate and acquire resources needed to enable successful project delivery, including people, any insourcing/outsourcing needed, hardware, processing time

- Manage projects to achieve milestones

- Control scope of projects, re-negotiating with the client where any additional requests result in further chargeable work or the need for revised timescales

- Prepare, negotiate, monitor and control budget of assigned projects to ensure expenditure is in line with agreed business case

- Identify, escalate and resolve problems. Conduct regular reviews and produce updates

- Issue project management status reports to project stakeholders highlighting risk areas and overall progress

- Work with colleagues in development for product support

- Provide input and support to the development of Project Management. Best Practice to help ensure the business meets and exceeds business performance goals

Implementation:

- Effectively manage the live implementation of the solution:

- Effect seamless handover with full communication of changes to the client

- Conduct post-implementation review and make provision for ongoing support

- Complete post project budget review, actual versus forecast

Managing Client Relationships:

- Manage the client relationship through the life cycle of the project:

- Drive high standards of customer service and proactive client communication during the project duration

- Proactively communicate project status and deliverables through the life of the project

- Support the client through the project, providing guidance through project design to implementation

- Resolve issues raised by the client in a timely and efficient manner

- Nurture and enhance the client relationship, identifying and progressing with the Consultant opportunities to enhance existing solutions and cross-sell other E-S products and services

Management & Leadership:

- Directly lead a small project team of analysts to effectively deliver solutions projects:

- Manage and motivate staff to maximise performance

- Support the team in the management of their own workloads and achievement of objectives

- Create an environment of continuous improvement, encouraging people to identify opportunities for improving quality and efficiency

- Engage in and complete performance management processes, including objective setting, personal development planning and performance review

- Resolve disciplinary and grievance issues

Development:

- Improve personal, professional and management competencies and business knowledge through continual learning:

- Own and action personal development plan

- Extend knowledge of Experian product, service, clients and business processes

- Seek feedback to improve personal performance

- Ensure that potential learning from each project is maximised

- Acts as a role model, displaying a positive, enthusiastic, can-do approach even in the face of adversity

- Establish and maintain cross-team communication networks to share learning

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Total Experience of 8 10 years minimum

- Experience of Project Managing medium to large sized software implementation projects and project teams within a large, complex IT/financial services organisation for 3 5 years

- The candidate should have worked as a programmer/software developer for 2-3 years before starting to manage projects as a Project Manager

- Significant experience of risk management products

- Graduate/Post Graduate in Technology/Computer Science preferred

- Hands on Knowledge of Core Java, XML, SQL, Oracle is required

- Professional certification in Project Management

- Previous experience of working in a IT/financial services environment and delivering software development/implementation projects

- Strong negotiating and influencing skills

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Strong relationship management skills

- Excellent planning and organising capabilities

- Good man-management skills

- Commercially astute

- Strong relationship management skills

- Good decision making capability

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