Project Manager

Primary Objective

• Lead and manage end-to-end programme/ project planning, executing, monitoring and controlling to ensure successful implementation to meet expected outcome(s)
• Review and refine project detailed scope, budgets, deliverables and schedule
• Lead and regularly review to ensure project progress and budgets are on-track and recommend course correction actions if required
• Develop solutions/ initiatives to meet expected targets and outcomes
• Independently manage and is accountable for multifaceted projects involving system implementations, business process improvement, transformation and strategy
• Serves as the main liaison with Senior Management, project sponsor and key stakeholders on project progress and updates

Project Planning & Management

• Review and refine project scope, deliverables and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value and outcome
• Define scope of engagement with stakeholders and organize engagement sessions with stakeholders
• Carry out peer analysis and relevant research to validate and firm up pain points, challenges and solutions
• Review and update project status and progress
• Track, prepare and share progress reports
• Identify deviations from plans and recommend course correction actions
• Monitor actual cost against budget
• Prepare proposal and approval paper for identified projects to secure buy-in, approval and sign-off from management and committee

Project Team Management

• Remove roadblocks to team’s work and deliverables
• Leverage organizational resources to improve capacity for project work
• Ensure team members are engaged and committed and making a meaningful contribution and encourage a sustainable pace with high-level of quality for the team

Project Owner Support

• Support Project Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications and helping to implement an effective system of project governance

Process Management and Improvement

• Define and manage well-defined project management process and champion on-going process improvement initiatives to implement best practices