Project Manager

Compunnel, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. is looking for an experienced project manager in San Jose, CA to manage end-to-end project activities while ensuring timeline, cost, and scope compliance. This role is vital for enhancing customer satisfaction by meeting project success criteria.

Key responsibilities include managing stakeholder communications, fostering positive relationships, and applying risk management strategies to ensure project health. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in product management and experience with software delivery methodologies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management.
• 5+ years in Quote to Cash.
• 5+ years in SAP OTC/ BRIM.
• 3+ years in M&A Integration.

Responsibilities

• Manage project scope, timelines, and costs.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Conduct risk management and issue tracking.
• Support testing and quality assurance.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Customer Communication

Project Planning

Risk Management

KPI Tracking

Requirements Analysis

Software Engineering Best Practices

Tools

SAP OTC/ BRIM

Salesforce CRM

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable, ensuring the agreed scope, timeline, and cost are met. Enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring the success and acceptance criteria of the project are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify key stakeholders and maintain positive business relationships.
• Communicate regularly with customers and address needs with empathy.
• Define project activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills, interfaces, and budget.
• Optimize costs and time utilization, minimize waste, and deliver projects on time, within budget, and to agreed scope and quality.
• Anticipate and manage risks with appropriate strategies and contingency plans.
• Implement defined governance models.
• Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
• Implement software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs.
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices.
• Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control, and prioritization.
• Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents and traceability matrices.
• Partner with customers to define and elicit requirements.
• Conduct impact analysis for scope changes and negotiate prioritization.
• Consolidate and validate estimates at a solution level, evaluating risks.
• Review and validate estimates across service lines.
• Conduct resource planning at a project level.
• Analyze the impact of changes on estimates and resource loading.
• Identify roles and required skills, considering constraints and KPIs.
• Plan and manage small projects or modules.
• Identify and implement risk mitigation strategies for projects.
• Anticipate schedule delays and dependencies and manage them according to the risk management plan.
• Identify options to fast-track the schedule.
• Estimate work, plan, track activities, and report progress.
• Proactively identify dependencies and track them.
• Identify and track project risks and follow escalation paths.
• Document and communicate project risks and issues.
• Define a RACIA chart and communicate roles and responsibilities.
• Define and implement a communication plan.
• Support system integration testing.
• Review and mentor the team during test execution.
• Support defining the test strategy and scenarios.
• Understand the business impact of defects.
• Prioritize defects based on criticality and severity.
• Participate in defect triage meetings.
• Identify and analyze the root cause of defects.
• Interpret test results.
• Define or adopt the right tooling strategy for the project.
• Guide the team to develop efficient and high-quality work products.
• Ensure process compliance and mentor the team.
• Tailor quality guidelines and benchmarks to meet project requirements.
• Understand how proposed solutions meet client requirements.
• Understand customer technology landscapes and map business requirements to technology requirements.
• Set expectations with the customer.
• Leverage knowledge in daily work and skill development.
• Collaborate with account managers and other functions to deliver value.
• Present proposed solutions to customers, highlighting benefits.
• Understand the end goal and relevance of win themes.
• Create simple solutions or Proof of Concepts (POCs) to build confidence.
• Review other project artifacts.
• Participate in PM forums and share best practices.
• Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies from other projects.
• Implement a framework to assess team skill levels and define enhancement plans.
• Nurture innovation potential within the team.
• Provide feedback and enable team independence and growth.

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in end-to-end project management.
• Ability to identify key stakeholders and maintain relationships.
• Experience in regular customer communication.
• Skills in defining project activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills, interfaces, and budget.
• Ability to optimize costs and time utilization.
• Experience in risk anticipation and management.
• Knowledge of implementing governance models.
• Ability to track and report project KPIs.
• Experience in implementing software delivery methodologies.
• Ability to adopt and build software engineering best practices.
• Skills in requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control, and prioritization.
• Experience in driving the creation of common standards.
• Ability to partner with customers to define and elicit requirements.
• Experience in conducting impact analysis for scope changes.
• Ability to consolidate and validate estimates, evaluating risks.
• Experience in reviewing and validating estimates across service lines.
• Skills in resource planning at a project level.
• Ability to analyze the impact of changes on estimates and resource loading.
• Skills in identifying roles and required skills.
• Experience in planning and managing small projects or modules.
• Ability to identify and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Skills in anticipating and managing schedule delays and dependencies.
• Ability to identify options to fast-track schedules.
• Skills in estimating work, planning, tracking activities, and reporting progress.
• Ability to proactively identify and track dependencies.
• Skills in identifying and tracking project risks and following escalation paths.
• Experience in documenting and communicating project risks and issues.
• Ability to define a RACIA chart.
• Experience in defining and implementing communication plans.
• Ability to support system integration testing.
• Experience in reviewing and mentoring teams during test execution.
• Ability to support defining test strategies and scenarios.
• Skills in understanding the business impact of defects.
• Ability to prioritize defects.
• Experience in participating in defect triage meetings.
• Skills in identifying and analyzing root causes of defects.
• Ability to interpret test results.
• Experience in defining or adopting project tooling strategies.
• Ability to guide teams to develop high-quality work products.
• Ability to ensure process compliance and mentor teams.
• Understanding of how proposed solutions meet client requirements.
• Ability to understand customer technology landscapes.
• Skills in mapping business requirements to technology requirements.
• Ability to set expectations with customers.
• Ability to leverage knowledge in daily work and skill development.
• Experience in collaborating with account managers and other functions.
• Skills in presenting proposed solutions.
• Ability to create simple solutions or POCs.
• Experience in reviewing project artifacts.
• Ability to participate in forums and share best practices.
• Ability to adopt learnings and reusable methodologies.
• Skills in assessing team skill levels and defining enhancement plans.
• Ability to nurture innovation within the team.
• Experience in providing feedback and enabling team growth.
• Skill in Impact and Influence.
• Knowledge of structured project management methodologies (e.g., agile techniques).
• Knowledge of estimation techniques.
• Knowledge of metrics analysis and quantitative management.
• Knowledge of root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of people management, including goal setting, growth aspects, and coaching.

Must Have Skills

Product Management: 7+ years
Quote to Cash: 5+ years
SAP OTC/ BRIM: 5+ years
M&A Integration: 3+ years
Good To have Skills: Salesforce CRM Integration: 3+ years, Revenue Recognition: 3+ years, Billing: 3+ years
Mandatory if Applicable Domain Experience (If any): Must have Certifications – Prior Client experience – Y / N If Yes – provide dates, details of account/project
Location – San Jose, CA
Onsite Requirement - Yes
Number of days onsite – 3