Next Education - Senior Project Manager

About the company:

Established in 2007, Next Education (http://www.nexteducation.in) is a technology driven company transforming education in India. It has 10,000+ schools all over India using its products in 60,000 classrooms. It has various products catering to the needs of a student: digital classroom, self learning systems, labs, school management software and books. With a strong drive for making effective, easily usable products and efficient operations and support, Next Education has been at the forefront of helping schools. With millions of students as its consumers, Next Education is constantly innovating to make new products for better learning outcomes and continues to be a leader in the industry.

About the role:

We are looking for a seasoned project manager to manage our ERP technology support and implementation project. The candidate ...

- Should manage a 50+ team consisting of Engineers, Project Managers and Customer Service Personnel.

- Should manage customer communication, prioritization and delivery of engineering requests

- Should have excellent stakeholder management capabilities to deliver the requirements on time

- Plan, Monitor and Ensure that all items are delivered on time within scope, budget and quality standards

- Setup processes and tools, standards, estimation and other required guidelines

- Assess risks for projects and anticipate bottle-necks and take suitable actions to avert them

- Understand project requirements and own hiring, performance management and training

- Designing suitable metrics to evaluate the members of the engineering team and ensure good performance management with them

- Understand and motivate engineering teams to excel

- Coaching, counseling and disciplining employees; Initiating, coordinating and enforcing systems, policies and procedures

- Evaluate external tools/best practices