Assistant Project Manager

Smart Intellect; Islamabad Capital Territory; On-site; PKR 5,665,000 - 11,332,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Islamabad is seeking a Project Manager to oversee project teams, manage scope, cost, and deliverables, and ensure timely communication with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and influencing skills to drive project success. This position offers an opportunity to lead high-impact projects and contribute to the overall strategy of the organization.

Qualifications

• Good analytical and strategy skills.
• Ability to gain confidence with customers and influence at multiple levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage the scope, cost, schedule, and contractual performance deliverables.
• Establish communication plans with the project team and the customer.
• Monitor and assess the quality of the deliverables.

Skills

Analytical skills

Influencing skills

Job description

At SMART INTELLECT, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Responsibilities

• Manage the scope, cost, schedule, and contractual performance deliverables
• Apply techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management
• Manage all project resources, including SMART INTELLECT, customers, and subcontractors
• Establish an effective communication plan with the project team and the customer
• Provide day-to-day direction to the project teams
• Provide regular project status updates to the customer and SMART INTELLECT management
• Develop and maintain the project plan
• Ensure timely and accurate project progress and issues reporting
• Provide guidance on strategies, requirements specifications, and functional specifications that meet customer requirements and project standards
• Facilitate the development of the application architecture, technology selection, and detailed application specifications
• Work closely with other teams to ensure alignment of objectives and expectations
• Manage vendor and SMART INTELLECT teams to ensure the developed solution matches the required solution
• Define and monitor issues, dependencies, risks, and risk mitigation strategies
• Monitor and assess the quality of the deliverables
• Provide feedback on methodology improvement/customization and share new tools to enhance processes
• Facilitate sharing best practices, with documentation of best practices and lessons learned
• Provide overall guidance to teams under direction

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Good analytical and strategy skills
• Ability to gain confidence with the customer and influence at multiple levels

Job Specification

• Timely and accurate project progress & issues
• Provide guidance on strategies, requirements specifications, and functional specifications that meet customer requirements and project standards
• Facilitate the development of the application architecture, technology selection, and detailed application specifications
• Work closely with other teams to ensure tight alignment of objectives and expectations
• Manage vendor and SMART INTELLECT teams to ensure that the developed solution matches the required solution
• Define and monitor issues, dependencies, risks and risk mitigation strategies
• Monitor and assess the quality of the deliverables
• Provide feedback on methodology improvement/customization and share new tools to enhance processes
• Facilitate sharing best practices, with documentation of best practices and lessons learned
• Provide overall guidance to teams under direction
• Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Good analytical and strategy skills
• Ability to gain confidence with the customer and influence at multiple levels

Outsourcing/Offshoring - Islamabad, Pakistan