Project Manager

Compunnel, Inc.; Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. is seeking a capable Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of a single project or deliverable-based model.

You will ensure the agreed scope, timeline, and budget are met, while maintaining strong customer relationships and guiding the team through governance, risk, and quality practices. The role requires coordinating activities, milestones, resources, and interfaces, with emphasis on delivering high quality results on time and within contract obligations.

Qualifications

• Identify project risks and define action plans to manage.
• Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual project tasks.
• Communicate project progress to all relevant parties reporting on topics such as schedule, quality, risk avoidance and changes to project specifications.
• Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions appropriately.
• Assess the project health using quantitative measures and adjust course as needed.

Responsibilities

• Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external).
• Maintain regular communication with customer; addressing needs through empathy with their environment.
• Define activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces and budget; optimize costs and time utilisation, minimize waste and deliver projects on time, on budget as per the contract and agreed scope, with a high quality result.
• Anticipate all possible risk and manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; develop contingency plans.
• Implement the governance model defined for similar projects.
• Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams.
• Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management.
• Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents, traceability matrix, bridge documents, analysis methodologies and solution artefacts.
• Partner with the customer to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop.
• Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate scope prioritization with the customer.
• Consolidate estimates at a solution level, evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint.
• Review and validate estimates across service lines.
• Conduct resource planning at a project level based on project requirements.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage small projects/modules.
• Anticipate items that cause schedule delays and manage them following the risk management plan.
• Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same.
• Estimate the work, plan and track the activities closely and report progress regularly.
• Proactively identify dependencies that might impact project KPIs and monitor them.
• Identify and track risks in the project and follow escalation path.
• Document risks and issues and communicate to stakeholders.
• Identify internal and external stakeholders; define RACIA chart and communicate roles/responsibilities.
• Define the communication plan and implement it.
• Support system integration testing and test strategy.
• Understand business impact of defects and prioritize defects by criticality and severity.
• Participate in defect triage meetings and root cause analysis.
• Explain results and adopt appropriate tooling strategy for the project.
• Independently guide the team to develop efficient and high‑quality work products.
• Meet project goals, ensure process compliance and mentor the team.
• Tailor organization's quality guidelines to meet project requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Risk management

Communication skills

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable‑based model; by delivering the agreed scope, within the agreed timeline and cost. Ensure the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met, enhancing customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)
• Maintain regular communication with customer; addressing needs through empathy with their environment
• Define activities, responsibilities, critical milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces and budget. Optimize costs and time utilisation, minimize waste and deliver projects on time, on budget as per the contract and agreed scope, with a high quality result.
• Anticipate all possible risk manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; while developing contingency plans.
• Implement the governance model defined for similar projects
• Track and reports project KPIs and analyze project health
• Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams
• Conduct requirements analysis, requirements elicitation, scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management
• Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents, traceability matrix, bridge documents, analysis methodologies and solution artefacts
• Partner with the customer to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop
• Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization
• Consolidate estimates at a solution level, evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint, with assumptions, scope and boundaries defined
• Review and validate estimates across service lines
• Conduct resource planning (pyramid, people development) at a project level based on project requirements
• Conduct impact analysis for changes and analyze corresponding impact to overall estimates and resource loading
• Identify the different roles and skills for each role, considering the constraints, pre‑requisites and other project specific KPIs
• Plan and manage multiple small projects/ modules as defined within UST
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple, small projects/ modules
• Anticipate items that cause schedule delays, schedule dependencies and manage them following the proper risk management plan
• Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same
• Estimate the work, plan and track the activities closely and report the progress on a regular basis
• Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact the project KPIs. Obtain agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on the plan
• Identify and closely track the risks in the project and follow escalation path
• Document the risks and issues in the project, communicate them to all relevant stakeholders and closely track the impact
• Identify the internal and external stakeholders on the project
• Define the RACIA chart and communicate the roles/responsibilities to the stakeholders
• Define the communication plan and implement the same
• Support system integration testing (functional / technical)
• Review/mentor team during test execution
• Support defining the test strategy and scenarios
• Understand the business impact of defects
• Prioritize the defects based on their criticality and severity
• Participate in defect triage meetings
• Identify and analyse root cause of defects
• Interpret the results
• Define/adopt the right tooling strategy for the project
• Independently guide the team to develop efficient and high‑quality work products
• Meet project goals, ensure process compliance and mentor the team
• Tailor organization's quality guidelines and benchmarks to meet specific project quality requirements and processes
• Understand how the proposed solution meets client requirements
• Understand customer's technology landscape
• Map business requirements to technology requirements
• Set expectations with the customer
• Leverage that knowledge in day‑to‑day work or in upgrading skills of the team
• Work under the guidance of the account manager to drive the account management KPIs relevant for the project
• Collaborate with other projects and enabling functions to deliver value to UST and to the customer in terms of ideas, automation, etc
• Present the proposed solution to customer highlighting the solution benefits
• Understand the end in mind and the relevance of win themes
• Carve out simple solution / POC to build confident in the solution
• Review other project artefacts and assess the health of the same
• Actively participate in forums like PM forums and share best practices and learnings from own projects
• Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools from other projects to improve productivity and quality
• Implement a framework to assess the skill level of the team and work with the team to define a skill enhancement plan
• Nurture the innovation potential within the team
• Provide feedback and eEnable the team to perform independently and grow

Required Qualifications

• Identify project risks and define action plans to manage
• Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual project tasks
• Communicate project progress to all relevant parties reporting on topics such as, schedule achievements, quality control, risk avoidance and changes to project specifications
• Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions appropriately
• Assess the project heath using quantitative measures and change the course of action as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Technologies to be implemented within the project
• Structured project management methodologies (e.g. agile techniques)
• Estimation techniques
• Metrics analysis and quantitative management
• Root cause analysis
• People management including goal setting, growth aspects and coaching