Junior IT Project Manager Job in Hyderabad at NTT DATA

NTT Data is hiring for the role of Junior IT Project Manager!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Create and maintain an effort-driven project schedule for each project by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, resources, task dependencies, and critical paths.
• Control and track project performance (scope, time allocations, cost, conversion targets, and quality) by constantly evaluating project progress and conducting regular team status meetings.
• Determine, monitor, and review all project economics, including costs, staffing requirements, resources, and risk.
• Provide leadership, direction and integrate activities with other departments to ensure successful implementation and support.
• Anticipate and identify risks and issues that may impact critical path and deliverables; develop and implement mitigation and corrective actions.
• Ensure the project remains focused on key objectives and goals and comply with established methodologies. Develop and manage project expectations ensuring all applicable functional areas are engaged on the project.
• Develop and pro-actively execute project plans from initiation through project closure, applying established PMO standards as applicable to each project.
• Ensure that the project stays on plan by identifying issues and actions and leading team members to resolve issues and complete actions; taking the initiative to make decisions consistent with achieving project objectives
• Identify and manage risks associated with projects and minimize their impact on the project success
• Report on progress and escalate key issues to management in a timely manner to maintain progress

Requirements:

• 2 to 3 years of professional experience
• Experience working in the Information Technology industry
• Change control experience
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent Project Management work experience 
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable communicating with C-level staff and possess demonstrated experience in making articulate and effective oral presentations to a variety of audiences
• Strong interpersonal skills: the ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas
• Ability to professionally manage a cross-functional team of multiple project resources (including partner-resources and third-party vendors) effectively
• Detail and big picture oriented
• Problem-solving skills with ability to lead root cause analysis
• Experience in meeting planning and facilitation
• Proactive issue and risk identification, tracking, management, and resolution
• Status collection and reporting – via documents and status meetings
• Experience in managing multiple tasks and priorities
• Ability to work in collaboration with project team member.