Junior Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Job description

Junior Project Manager / Business Analyst

Role Summary / Overall purpose of job

The successful candidate will operate as a PM in a functional and/or technical role in a business or systems delivery environment primarily within the High-Tech industry.

Typically based on a client site, this role is largely comprised of shaping and driving a project to completion and management of stakeholders involved across multiple diverse groups.

The role requires strong project management skills, with the successful candidate demonstrating a delivery track record of complex technology or business solutions in a client-facing environment.

Additionally, candidates should be able to provide thought leadership to a client and have the ability to support and influence a client in their approach to attain execution excellence of their operations

Main Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Shape and drive a project from initiation stage to project close

• Ensures that project vision and goals are clearly defined and that key stakeholders are identified and on-boarded

• Manages project scope

• Defines the project plan, roles and responsibilities and communications plan

• Leads the project methodology, ensuring that templates and work instructions are clear for all project phases and deliverables

• Creates and maintains the project plan

• Drives to ensure that issues and risks are actioned and mitigated in a timely manner

• Management of multiple stakeholders across multiple business and technical groups

• Track record of ability to ramp-up quickly

• Creation of status reports for management stakeholders

• Ability to work under pressure and deliver

• Maintain strong client focus at all times

• Facilitation of client workshops to present and validate and achieve stakeholder consensus on business approaches, requirements or plans

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Personal Specification

Requirements

• 3+ years Project Management experience

• Proven ability to shape and drive a project from initiation stage to project close

• Proven delivery track record in managing/supporting non IT projects (e.g. Business) projects and stakeholders. Examples of such projects include ensuring the smooth roll-out of launches and enhancement to the business or to the business customers, continuous process improvement & cost reduction initiatives, operations assessments etc

• Strong Executive Presence, ability to interact and influence at senior management and above level

• Demonstrated strategic thinking and ability to handle and address ambiguity head-on

• Excellent project management skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong relationship building and communications abilities

• Proactive in approach, self-starter and requires minimum supervision in order to get job done

• Strong Microsoft Project skills, along with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) skills

• Previous experience of managing and collaborating with large, disparate and often virtual teams

• Previous experience working in the IT or High-Tech sector would be beneficial

• Previous experience working in large multi-national would be beneficial

• Familiarity with/Exposure to different software methodologies e.g. SDLC, Agile, Waterfall etc.

Qualifications

• PMP certified or similar qualification

• Relevant 3rd level qualification - honours degree

• 3+ years PM experience

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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