PMO Master Scheduler

Gainwell Technologies LLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Gainwell Technologies LLC is hiring for a Master Scheduler within the Project Management Office. You will develop and maintain an integrated Master Work Plan, ensuring alignment with Gainwell Delivery standards and consolidated schedules across projects.

Responsibilities include facilitating dependency workshops, monitoring milestones, and producing consistent portfolio reporting. The role requires extensive MS Project expertise and strong PMO/portfolio coordination experience in an afternoon

Qualifications

• 14+ years of overall experience in project management and PMO roles
• 5+ years of Master Scheduler experience using MS Project
• Experience with MS Project Online/Server is a plus

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an integrated Master Work Plan aligned with PMO standards
• Coordinate with Account Team to implement standardized work breakdown structures
• Identify and manage dependencies, milestones, critical paths and risks
• Provide estimating support and health checks on schedules and Earned Value metrics
• Produce timely, accurate schedule reports for portfolios and programs

Skills

MS Project

PMO experience

Scheduling

Dependency management

Earned Value

Tools

MS Project Online/Server

Job description

Summary

As a member of the Project Management Office (Master Scheduler) you will be responsible for developing and maintaining an integrated Master Work Plan, under the guidance of the Delivery Enterprise Project Management Office. In this role you will work closely with the Account Team to establish a standardized work breakdown structure that enable full integration of multiple Microsoft Project schedules, in line with Gainwell Delivery best practice standards and processes. This role is strictly does not involve access to Protected Health Information (PHI) & Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or any secured/confidential client data. The work is limited to application development and does not include handling or processing of sensitive health information.

Your role in our mission

• Implement Gainwell Project Scheduling controls on the Account or Program. Ensure that processes, tools and methods are operated consistently.
• Coach/support PM team on Project Scheduling processes.
• Facilitate the design, development and ownership of the Portfolio/Program or project plan, ensuring that all milestones and internal/external dependencies are identified, logged and monitored.
• Assist in the identification and ongoing management of dependencies by facilitating Dependency Workshops and Dependency Review Workshop
• Maintain and update plans, advising on forecasted milestones, missed dependencies, critical path analysis and impact assessment.
• Ensure reporting is implemented and maintained consistently and effectively and aggregated for the Portfolio/Program
• Ensure all product-based plans include activities, time and resource estimates for risk mitigation.
• Ensure quality review activities and associated time have been allocated realistically.
• Analyze interfaces and dependencies between projects and recommend actions where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern.
• Undertake tracking and maintenance of dependencies.
• Identify and report deviations and trigger exception reports when appropriate.
• Provide estimating support to the Portfolio/Program/Project.
• Check the health of the schedule using the schedule quality analyzer tool/tool that checks best practices applied, including generation of Earned Value metrics.

What we're looking for

• Overall experience should minimum 14 years.
• Nine or more years of experience in project management (PMO).
• Five or more years working experience in Master Scheduler, using MS Project.
• MS Project Online/Server experience preferred.
• Experience managing effort-based schedules.

What you should expect in this role

• Shift timing: Afternoon Shift (2 PM to 11 PM IST)