Lead Project Mgr, Project Leadership

Singtel Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services firm is seeking a Lead Project Manager to oversee large-scale IT projects in Singapore. The ideal candidate will have 9 years of IT project management experience, familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills. This position involves managing project scopes, risks, and resources, while ensuring timely delivery and quality compliance. Join us to create extraordinary value and impact in the APAC region.

Qualifications

• 9 years of IT project management experience.
• Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in IT business analysis techniques.

Responsibilities

• Manage and implement large-scale IT projects.
• Analyze and document requirements.
• Establish project plans and milestones.
• Monitor and drive completion of project activities.
• Negotiate with vendors and manage contracts.

Skills

IT project management

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

IT business analysis techniques

Presentation skills

Negotiation skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree Holder

Job description

NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 13,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

As the Lead Project Manager is responsible for the managing and implementing of large scale IT projects with quality, within scope and to ensure deliverables are on time and conform to processes and standards meeting customer’s requirements.

What will you do?

Project Delivery

• Analyse and document requirements by liaising with a range of people including users and managers, drawing together information needs across a distributed organisation.
• Establish and prepare project plans, risk management plans, project milestones and deliverables in consultation with business users and architect/designer.
• Manage the scope definition and change control mechanism.
• Escalate and discuss project overrun issues, scope creep, integration issues, resource requirements with Project Director (PD)/Service Delivery Director (SDD).
• Manage integration of various components of the project including hardware, software installation, testing, business process review, redesign, application development, migration and data conversion etc.
• Manage project activities to ensure timely delivery, including identification of critical path, monitoring and driving completion of interdependent activities and adjustment to project schedules to achieve overall completion deadline.
• Manage resources including hardware, software, human resource facilities and logistics required for project to ensure completion within budget.
• Review project documentation to ensure that it meets customers requirement and conforms to quality management process, standards and procedures to minimise rework and system failures.
• Define project resources, performance reviews and post implementation evaluations.
• Negotiate with vendors and across teams to ensure adequate resources are available during various phases of the project.
• Build relationships with users, technical staff and management to determine and resolve issues associated with systems implementation.
• Manage contracts and subcontractors.
• Negotiate with customers on change request effort, schedules and prioritize changes based on business needs.
• Clear and open communication with customers on project issues or clarifications

Business Development

• Proactively identify opportunities for further expansion or improvement of services delivered to the customer and liaise with the Account Manager(s) for development of that opportunity.
• Be involved in pre-sale activities

Team Management

• Liaise with team members to ensure that all tasks and deliverables are proceeding according to schedule.
• Plan, track and monitor the tasks assigned to the team leader/ members.
• Delegate tasks effectively by providing clear and specific instructions and goals.
• Provide leadership to the project team to ensure that proposals/enhancements are fully analysed and evaluated for their benefits and costs.
• Provide the project team with accurate information about business needs and priorities as well as details about existing business systems.
• Participate in leadership activities and providing performance feedback and developmental coaching.
• Monitor and improve team performance, providing leadership, coaching, and performance management.

The ideal candidate should possess:

• 9 years IT project management experience
• Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in IT business analysis techniques
• Degree Holder
• Self-motivated with a positive “can-do” attitude, creative with excellent presentation, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills including strong persuasive techniques.
• Ability to lead, develop and maintain respectful and trusting relationship;

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.