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Professional Services |
Location: |
Singapore |
| Type: |
Full-Time |
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Job Description:
As a Project Manager you will be primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
entire phase of software development and implementation: support of design,
build and test efforts, management of the project plan (activities and deliverables), support
of conversion and deployment activities, direction of change management activities, as well
as assisting in managing the customer’s expectations. Project Managers are also responsible for reporting
on the progress of the customer’s implementation – identifying, escalating and
resolving issues, both critical and non-critical, that may be impeding the project; achievement
of project milestones as well as ensuring that all internal stakeholders are fully aware of
the customer’s expectations.
Responsibilities:
Development and Implementation Skills:
- Provide leadership and management of project resources including FT, client
and third party resources.
- Act as the front-line contact with
client representatives on all project-related issues.
- Build
and maintain a reference-able customer relationship.
- Manage
the overall software implementation lifecycle of a project ensuring
compliance with FT’s
implementation methodology.
- Prepare project scope and
develop project plans, define resource loading, skill requirements,
milestones, and metrics per FT standard methods and practices.
- Monitor
and document project status; anticipates problems and resolves
them or escalate them to appropriate level of management
for resolution.
- Assist
with managing the project budget including managing of
forecasts against actuals, travel and expenses and collection
of receivables.
- Provide
direction for deployment and change management activities.
- Responsible
for preparing and submitting monthly project billing
report for finance.
- Cultivate and maintain
strong relationships with the customer's management
and project teams.
- Work
collaboratively with other internal departments
(i.e. R&D, Customer Support, Training, etc.)
to properly leverage resources to address customer
needs.
- Provide
leadership in developing skills and breadth of
knowledge of project team members.
- Act
as a mentor to team members and provides constructive
feedback on their performance during the performance
evaluation periods.
- Properly leverage
Senior and Lead Consultants to take ownership
of specific accountabilities.
Consulting Skills:
- Build and maintain a reference-able customer relationship.
- Exhibit
a sense of urgency in providing quality service to both internal and
external customers.
- Earn trust and credibility throughout FT and the customer
organization. Seeks to understand customer issues and deliver appropriate
solutions.
- Complete tasks in a timely manner within the
timeframe established.
- Hold self accountable for work products
and ensure quality of end results.
- Anticipate problems
in advance and provides solutions to minimize risks.
- Communicate
the capabilities and design of FT’s software.
- Assist
the customer in making decisions to properly and creatively
utilize features to meet the customer’s needs.
- Present
solutions that are consistent with the architecture and
the design of FT’s application.
Professional Development:
- Learn and continually develop FT consulting skills.
- Work collaboratively
and build relationships with other consultants, customer staff, and
third party consultants.
- Keep abreast of (new) product functionality – strive
to become a product expert across multiple modules.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
Education & Experience:
- Required
- Minimum 7 years of experience in IT Consulting, Enterprise Software Implementation
and Software Integration which includes at least 2 years of demonstrated
large scale Project Management experience
- Degree in Computer
Science, Engineering or in other technical field required.
- Excellent
project planning, budgeting, scheduling and resource management
skills.
- Effective
time management, documentation and organizational skills.
- Solid
comprehension of databases, web applications and networking
environments.
- Proven
project experience with J2EE (Servlets, JSP) application
implementations.
- Knowledge
of and experience with different server side operating
platforms (Linux, Windows NT / 2000 / 2003)
- MS
Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point) and MS
Project.
- Must possess
superior communication skills (both verbal and
written) inclusive of strong presentation skills.
- Skilled
in detailed requirements gathering/elicitation.
- Candidate
must be creative, hard working, team player
and must support the concept of “fun” in
the workplace.
- Demonstrated
multi tasking ability, analytical skills,
problem solving skills and a consistent
record of on time delivery and customer
service is mandatory.
- Ideal:
- Experience with RUP or other iterative development methodologies.
- Member
of PMI and/or PMP certified
- Experience in managing projects
in healthcare industry
- Knowledge of and experience
with SAP NetWeaver platform
- Proven experience with
all phases of SDLC (Systems Development Lifecycle) implementations.
- Background
in optimization technology
Technical Knowledge & Skills:
- Knowledge of HRM products and tools and ability to apply a variety of HRM
techniques, methods, processes, and practices to varied work assignments.
- Write
documentation in a clear and concise manner.
- Adjust to changes
in priorities and manage time effectively.
- Take initiative
to achieve value-added results, within scope of responsibility.
- Develop
solutions that consider the impact on other aspects of the
project.
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