Vedantu - Program Manager - Business Planning & Strategy - IIM

Program Manager- Business Planning & Strategy - IIM A/B/C

Vedantu is an Indian online tutoring platform where teachers provide tuitions to students over the internet, using a real-time virtual learning environment named WAVE (Whiteboard Audio Video Environment) a technology built in-house. It is said to operate on a marketplace model for teachers, where students can browse, discover and choose to learn from an online tutor.Vedantu is supported and backed by top VCs that includes Tiger Global, Accel Partners, and Omidyar Network,About Vedantu (by founders): https://youtu.be/wC0ZxwEmpPQ

TEDx talk by Vamsi, Co-founder & CEO

About Us: https://www.vedantu.com/v/about-us

Story of Vedantu : https://www.analyticssteps.com/blogs/story-vedantu

Role:

- The Program Manager is responsible for the effective coordination of projects and management of dependencies including oversight of any risks and issues. It also includes coordination of the new capability for the business to enable effective change and realization of the project benefits.

- The role is crucial for creating and maintaining focus, enthusiasm, and momentum. PM will develop and maintain the program environment to support each individual project within it often through effective program management, business, and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

- Work with a structured approach and balance between short-term needs and long- term investments

- Build business cases and communicate data-driven insights for different audiences

- Plan and design the projects within units and proactively monitor its progress, resolve issues and initiate appropriate corrective measures

- Ensure effective quality assurance and overall integrity of the program - focus inwardly on the consistency of the program and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programs/units, managing budget, monitor expenditures and costs against delivered benefits

- Manage communications with all the stakeholders to align different dependencies and interfaces among projects

- Initiate extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the program are identified

- Lead a team to deliver results and target in terms of volume, quality, and efficiency

- Provide administrative support to the sales and marketing team

- Create, interpret and draw insights from reports and present it senior management

Required Qualifications and Skills:

- Post-Graduate from IIM - A/B/C, having a prior work experience of at least 1-3 years (Preferrable 2018-2020 Passout)

- High integrity with the ability to command respect and create a sense of community amongst the team members (both internal as well as cross-functional)

- Good knowledge of planning techniques, monitoring, and controlling mechanisms

- Demonstrated leadership skill with sound business understanding

- Good knowledge of program and project management methods, budgeting and resource allocation

- Ability to work effectively and independently within a team

- Proficiency in data analytics - prior experience of using R, Tableau, Power BI or another statistical tool is good to have

- Strong problem solving and creative skills with a clearly defined design point of view

- Comfortable working in a Fast-Paced Work Environment with 6 Days working