Senior IT Project Associate

ZS Associates; Maharashtra; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Travel opportunities

Total rewards

Job summary

ZS is seeking a Senior IT Project Associate in Enterprise to lead cross-functional teams, gather and validate information, and drive end-to-end project tracking. The role emphasizes collaboration with IT, vendors, and end-users, with a focus on delivering timely outcomes.

You will plan meetings with senior leadership, manage multiple trackers, and ensure milestones are met while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships. English fluency and client-first mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience including application development projects, cloud infra projects and team management.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills (mandatory).
• Proven experience managing multiple, dynamically changing project trackers.
• Strong experience working on Cloud Infrastructure-related projects.
• Agile or Scrum certification is preferred.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong interpersonal abilities.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across all organizational levels, including leadership.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with large and diverse teams to gather, consolidate, and validate required information.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth execution of existing processes.
• Drive internal processes end-to-end with strong ownership and accountability.
• Proactively engage with highly occupied stakeholders to ensure timely input and decisions.
• Plan, lead, and facilitate meetings with senior leadership, ensuring clear outcomes and follow-ups.
• Ensure process milestones and deliverables are completed on time despite competing priorities.
• Maintain and manage multiple dynamic project trackers and status dashboards.
• Build and sustain strong working relationships with multiple external vendors.
• Actively follow up with cross-functional teams to secure responses and unblock dependencies.
• Identify gaps and proactively suggest process improvements and better ways of execution.
• Demonstrate self-motivation and consistently drive responsibilities to closure.
• Manage Onboarding & Offboarding of resources from team.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Acts as the liaison between IT, vendors, and end-users.
• Maintains the efficiency of the project coordination process such as planning, scheduling, and budget and risk assessment.
• Creates a structure environment in which team members can work together as an efficient team.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Stakeholder mgmt

English fluency

Presentation skills

Facilitation

Negotiation

Agile/Scrum

Cloud infra

Team leadership

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Cloud infra tools

Job description

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.

What you'll do

Senior IT Project Associate in the Enterprise will..

• Work closely with large and diverse teams to gather, consolidate, and validate required information.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth execution of existing processes.
• Drive internal processes end-to-end with strong ownership and accountability.
• Proactively engage with highly occupied stakeholders to ensure timely input and decisions.
• Plan, lead, and facilitate meetings with senior leadership, ensuring clear outcomes and follow-ups.
• Ensure process milestones and deliverables are completed on time despite competing priorities.
• Maintain and manage multiple dynamic project trackers and status dashboards.
• Build and sustain strong working relationships with multiple external vendors.
• Actively follow up with cross-functional teams to secure responses and unblock dependencies.
• Identify gaps and proactively suggest process improvements and better ways of execution.
• Demonstrate self-motivation and consistently drive responsibilities to closure.
• Manage Onboarding & Offboarding of resources from team.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Acts as the liaison between IT, vendors, and end-users.
• Maintains the efficiency of the project coordination process such as planning, scheduling, and budget and risk assessment.
• Creates a structure environment in which team members can work together as an efficient team.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s Degree required;
• 3+ years of relevant work experience, including application development project, cloud infra projects and team management.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills (mandatory).
• Proven experience managing multiple, dynamically changing project trackers.
• Strong experience working on Cloud Infrastructure-related projects.
• Agile or Scrum certification is preferred.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong interpersonal abilities.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across all organizational levels, including leadership.
• Strong facilitation, consulting, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• High confidence in coordinating with senior stakeholders and vendor partners.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments with highly utilized teams.
• Highly proactive, self-driven, and outcome-oriented mindset.
• Experience in maintaining multiple project related trackers which changes dynamically.
• Lead internal support projects and help define strategy.
• Fluency in English
• Client-first mentality
• Intense work ethic
• Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach

How you’ll grow

• Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways
• Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities
• Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions

Perks & Benefits

At ZS, your growth matters. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well-being, financial future, time away, and professional development. With robust skills-building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, expand your capabilities, and thrive as part of a global community. For details on total rewards in India, visit ZS India office locations | Where we work | ZS.

Hybrid working model

We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.

Travel

Travel is a requirement at ZS for client facing ZSers; business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.

At ZS, we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences, and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are, and make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are integral to your success here. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Learn more about our inclusion and belonging efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces and obtaining the resources they need to thrive.

ZS is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities without regard to any class protected by applicable law.