Project Manager

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com. 

These professionals that support the end-to-end solution delivery, ensuring timely delivery of high quality project deliverables through effective team communications and focus on quality including but not limited to all change requests.

Key Responsibilities

• Understands project scope and requirements.
• Provides support to production team to remove roadblocks and clarify questions.
• Proactively manages and monitors execution of deliverables.
• Manages all change requests, validates all schedule impacts and communicates approved changes to all stakeholders and teams.
• Takes steps to proactively mitigate project risk as defined/required in project plan, validates that phase plans are completed timely, ensures that all project plans are communicated to the impacted team members.
• Complies with required process certification requirements by following ADM/standard methodologies and continually improves productivity throughout the project life cycle.
• Ensures project members effectively follow schedule, makes sure all milestones are completed within the schedule, and manages all schedule impacts.
• Demonstrates creativity and flexibility when creating and driving project estimates.
• Validates budget performance, ensures project members are effectively managing budgets, and validates all budget impacts.
• Seeks to maximize revenues and minimize costs on projects.
• Ensures quality reviews are completed for each project and that all team members follow all quality assurance processes
• Addresses quality review findings with the project team to seek improvements.
• Demonstrates basic experience working with multicultural teams.
• Proactively manages and monitors execution of deliverables; manages relationships and coordinates work across teams, assigns work and provides instructions, advice and technical/business leadership and guidance to project staff.
• Mentors and provides guidance to project resources.
• Assists in conducting interviews.
• Reports and manages overall project/release status back to the project sponsor.
• Understands and follows the communication plan at the project level, ensures that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members.
• Understands fundamental risks of the project, proactively mitigates project risks, ensures stakeholders understand what risks will or will not be mitigated.
• Keeps an open communication with client and main stakeholders, ensures stakeholders expectations are understood and managed, reports overall project status back to stakeholders, obtains stakeholders commitment.
• Ensures resolution of team project conflicts and escalates issues to management which cannot be resolved at the project level.

Required Experience

• 1+ year experience in Project Management in client facing environments
• B2/C1 English level (Written and spoken)

Soft Skills

• Basic communication skills
• Basic problem-solving skills
• Strong team player skills
• Strong work ethic
• Basic decision-making skills
• Strong strategic thinking skills
• Basic conflict resolution skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Experienced time management skills
• Basic presentation skills
• Basic negotiation skills

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

 Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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