Job Description

• IT Software/Application Project Manager with strong functional and technical experience.

Your Responsibilities:

• Accountable for successful delivery of assigned project within time, quality and cost; based on project management methodology.
• To support preparation of RFQ/RFP, and other special projects and obtain approval from the Investment Committee.
• Provide leadership and direction to Project Team Members.
• To establish and introduce project management and methodology best practices.
• To manage and lead projects to ensure all milestones are met within time, quality standards, resources & budget constraint:

Manage expectations and conflict resolution among project stakeholders, steering committee, project team, vendors and 3rd parties.

To plan, review and negotiate project schedule with product owner.

To coordinate and obtain inter-department support on planned tasks.

To act as liaison between entire project team (users and vendors) and ensuring alignment.

To ensure contract is thoroughly reviewed and negotiated, and to safeguard company’s interest at all times.

To escalate potential risks/blocking issues together with proposed mitigation plans and/or recommendations.

To lead and pro-actively manage all deviations, risks and inter-dependencies that impacts the project.

To be the gate-keeper for all entry and exit criteria to next project phase.

To provide weekly project updates based on Project Governance processes.

To participate (if necessary) in Project Governance Working Team meeting.

To produce relevant documentations in compliance with Project Governance requirements and standards

To ensure hardcopy documentations are signed-off, filed, scanned (signed-off page) and placed in designated repository.

To ensure all documentations are complete & comprehensive.

To ensure investment, solution and resources are optimized.

Manage project resources. Ensure high performance team by leading and providing guidance. Also ensure team members are motivated, productive and developing their skills and experience

To ensure Post-Implementation handover to Operations is smooth.

Ensure proper project Close-out including (but not limited to) lessons learnt, evaluations and conducting face-to-face review with project team on performance (in the project).

Business & vendor management

To facilitate and conduct vendor evaluation and selection process.

To facilitate contract and SLA negotiations.

To be main technical contact point for node vendors

To establish effective and good working-relationships with vendor.

To ensure vendors comply to company regulations at all times.

To monitor, track and manage vendor’s delivery by ensuring all statement of work is delivered as per contract and agreement, apart from within timeline and quality standards with complete documentation.

Requirements:

• At least a tertiary level qualification in Engineering, Computer Science.
• Minimum to have 5 years project management experience
• PMP, Prince2 or any equivalent project management certification is preferred
• Experience in managing implementation of projects related to IT, BSS, Analytics system, software application, design
• Good understanding in project management methodology such as Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall
• Mindset to ‘take lead’ and enjoy innovation and do whatever it takes to deliver on mandate
• Demonstrated learning agility in ambiguous and unfamiliar situations

• PRINCE2
• Vendor Management
• IT Project Management
• Agile & SCRUM Methodologies