Project Manager (1-year Contract)

Tryzens; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tryzens is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery for client projects in the ecommerce domain. The role encompasses coordinating planning, schedules, budgets, and staffing while ensuring quality and on-time delivery.

You will manage client relationships, drive optimization roadmaps, and collaborate with offshore delivery teams to meet milestones and profitability targets.

Qualifications

• Overall 10+ years of IT experience.
• Minimum of 4+ years in project management.
• Experience delivering end-to-end system implementations in eCommerce.
• Client-facing experience or ability to excel in client-facing roles.
• Understanding of full eCommerce life cycle; technical background advantageous.
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and Prince2 methodologies.
• Degree educated or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day project details including plan, schedule, budget, staffing, scope and risks.
• Facilitate project kick-offs and ongoing project meetings with stakeholders.
• Monitor quality, consistency and accuracy of project delivery.
• Drive value, efficiency and profitability across scope, timeline, and revenue.
• Proactively mitigate risks and manage dependencies with clients and internal teams.
• Engage in proposals and estimations to drive new business into Tryzens.
• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to develop optimization roadmaps.

Skills

Project management

Client facing

Communication

Agile methodologies

Waterfall

Prince2

Teamwork

Independent work

JIRA/Confluence

eCommerce knowledge

Education

Degree or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

The core responsibilities are:

Project Management

• Manage the day-to-day details of the project, manage client optimizations road maps including the plan, schedule, project delivery, staffing, task assignments, scope, budget, and risks
• Facilitate the project kick-off with project team members and appropriate stakeholders
• Follow (and feedback on) core processes and methodology to drive quality, consistency, and accuracy of project delivery
• Maximize Tryzens performance to project baselines across scope, timeline, revenue, and profitability
• Determine Project goals and manage dependencies and risks with the client and with our internal teams, to proactively mitigate them and defend our baselines
• Eliminate inefficiencies, rework, roadblocks, and issues
• Manage change rigorously, and ensure client expectations on changes are managed accordingly, and we are commercially protected for those changes
• Ensure focus throughout the project team, and maximize throughput of task completion
• Be a consultative partner to our clients, steer them towards mutually beneficial outcomes, maximize client satisfaction during project delivery
• Engage in proposals and estimations to drive new business into Tryzens
• Work with Tryzens internal teams and clients, to build client optimizations road maps.
• Work with client and Tryzens practices to ensure road map story requirements that have been captured are technically sufficient, including facilitating discovery workshops.
• Facilitate all project meetings focused on status reporting, problem resolution, feedback.
• Managing offshore project delivery team, ensuring collaboration and clear communication between team members.
• Weekly project/sprint status, financial, and schedule reporting to stakeholders.
• Deliver all releases to budget and to agreed timelines.
• Create and communicate release schedules.
• Work with business sponsors, peers, and other stakeholders to develop and review project proposals

Client Engagement

• Take ownership of all direct communication with the customer and resolve escalations with autonomy within the scope of our service offering.
• Collaborate effectively with internal and external colleagues to build a first-class customer relationship with the objective of making every customer a lifelong customer.
• Uncover and recognize any risks that threaten customer satisfaction or renewal, executing mitigation plans for all risks.
• Work closely with the Client Success team to identify and develop new opportunities within existing customer accounts ensuring customer growth and satisfaction.
• Conduct regular reviews with the client to review services delivered.
• Listening to customers carefully and truly understanding customers’ key business issues and opportunities to deliver business-impacting results.
• Build strong, transparent, and trust-based relationships with clients.

In Life Services

• Work with the support team to ensure all incidents are resolved within SLA and monitoring is in place and set up correctly.
• Maintain an active Continual Service Improvement program to establish the root cause of problems and fix these through ongoing road map delivery releases.
• Maintain day-to-day accountability for the ownership and resolution (including any referral or escalation as may be necessary) of Service issues.
• Ensure all effort expended is reported accurately and billed in line with the client contracts.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Overall 10+ years of IT experience
• A minimum of 4+ years of experience in project management.
• Demonstrable track record of delivering end to end system implementations' ideally eCommerce solutions (Demandware/Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento, WebSphere Commerce Server, SAP Commerce, BigCommerce, CommerceTools)
• Client facing experience, or the ability and attitude required to excel in a client-facing role
• Understanding of full eCommerce Life Cycle. Technical background within e-commerce advantageous.
• Waterfall, Agile & Prince 2
• Degree educated or equivalent
• Must be commercially aware, able to identify and effectively communicate commercial opportunities.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a matrix organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a good team player.
• Proficient in using JIRA, Confluence and Project Management, issue management and collaborative tools.