Principal Project Manager
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- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
The group acts as an internal consultant supporting the Shared Services Organization which today supports three primary departments: Finance, People and Capability and Law, Franchise, and Integrity.The primary responsibility is to successfully execute projects within the Shared Services Organization and stakeholder groups. The qualified candidate will be a member of a highly visible team working closely with operations and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop appropriate planning and execute on projects.This position requires a highly collaborative individual with strong process and project management skills who will need to coordinate global relationships across multiple functional areas, third party providers and regional constituencies.Role:
- Planning, developing, and executing project schedules to ensure timely completion of deadlines and milestones.
- Provide insights to enhance processes and tooling, support implementation best practices and process improvements derived from identifying areas of weakness and strategizing improvements.
- Develop, run, and distribute status and progress reports to update leadership and project team members.
- Regularly communicates to senior management regarding the status of specific project deliverables.
- Perform analysis and assessment activities to provide stakeholders with timely updates.
- Experience in large-scale, cross functional projects.
- Project and/or Program Management experience, with a good understanding of a typical lifecycle
- Experience evaluating business processes and providing advice on ways to effectively streamline business processes and efficiencies (i.e., Lean Six Sigma)
- Expert presenter using data and visuals to tell project status and stories to various audiences, up to executives.
- Excellent communication (written, oral and presentation) and people skills.
- Experience with project risk management and investigation, consulting and strategic judgement, and business process assessment.
- Professional services or consulting experience a plus
- Experience in analysis of operational data to support business decisions and proven process management experience - inclusive of process design and system optimization.