Project manager

WillWare Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

WillWare Technologies in Bengaluru, India seeks a senior Project Manager to lead medium to large cross-divisional programs and drive delivery using established practices. You will coordinate resources, manage budgets, and report progress to sponsors and executives while shaping strategic roadmaps and ensuring alignment with business goals.

Must manage multiple interdependencies, foster stakeholder relationships, and ensure quality through governance and standardized processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressively responsible project management experience.
• Experience designing, developing and implementing software projects.
• 5+ years in Retail Systems, development and delivery (valued).

Responsibilities

• Initiates, plans, controls, and implements medium to large cross-divisional projects.
• Ensures deliverables including charter, plan, schedule, design, testing and governance.
• Plans projects in detail and manages budgets and resources.
• Identifies interdependencies and cross-project risks.
• Communicates status to sponsors, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Facilitates roadmap planning and portfolio reviews.
• Collaborates with operations support and other teams for production readiness.

Skills

Project management

Cross-divisional leadership

Delivery frameworks

Stakeholder management

Resource planning

Technical understanding

Risk & issue management

Vendor/ tools integration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science / information technology

Tools

Unix/Linux

Python

J2EE

Database systems

Source control

Job description

• Initiates, plans, controls, and implements medium to large cross-divisional, multi-year projects utilizing Client’s project management practices
• Ensures overall deliverables are completed, including project charter, plan, schedule, requirements, design, development, testing, implementation, policies and procedures, standards, contracts, risks, and issues resolutions
• Plans projects in detail, develops and manages project budgets, organizes project teams and works with resource managers to coordinate and align resource needs
• Identifies, evaluates, and proactively manages cross-project interdependencies
• Manages progress of efforts and communicates status to sponsors, stakeholders on a regular basis and to senior leadership as needed
• Participates in strategic roadmap planning and may facilitate and provide materials for portfolio review meetings
• Excellent communication skills, able to flex style and work with all levels within the organization from individual contributors to Executives
• Proactively identify opportunities and contribute to continuous business process improvement efforts to help streamline and standardize workflow, communication, and resource efficiencies utilizing relative process improvement techniques and methodologies.
• Ensures smooth implementation of new technologies and vendor integrations by using their expertise on their assigned domains and interfaces
• May conduct technical walkthroughs with software engineers to ensure technical feasibility and standards across departments.
• Collaborates with operations support and other teams to ensure robust production operations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information technology, or in a related technical field or equivalent technology experience.
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate work experience designing, developing, and implementing computer software projects utilizing open-source services framework
• Minimum 10+ years Project Management experience
• 5+ years’ experience in Retail Systems, development, and delivery (highly valued)
• Experience creating and executing implementation strategies for complex systems
• Strong relationship management skills and understanding of organizational change management
• Understanding of various delivery frameworks and practices (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Lean, etc.) and appropriate application of them
• Ability to apply highly complex principles, theories and concepts of the technical discipline and provide solutions to a wide range of complex tasks, projects, and problem
• Ability to determine estimates of effort and impacts for a variety of solutions and influence technical discussions and decisions
• Experience in working with distributed Unix or Linux-based systems, Python J2EE Application Servers, clustered DB systems and source control systems
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous tasks and to coordinate activities with a high sense of urgency
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written, interpersonal and listening skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation
• Strong collaboration skills to achieve business goals collectively across broad teams
• Challenges the status quo, champions change and influences others to change

Must-haves:

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka does not take themselves too seriously