Tech Project Manager - Agile/Scrum - Gurgaon @ Adidas Group

Purpose Overall Relevance for the Organization

• The management of projects, typically (but not exclusively) involving the development and implementation of business processes to meet identified business needs.
• The role acquires and utilizes the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality.
• The adoption and adaptation of project management methodologies based on the context of the project and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Additionally, the Tech Project Manager is capable to manage technology focused projects and understands software solutions or system architecture (e.g. SAP).

Key Responsibilities

P ortfolio, programme and project support

• Takes responsibility for the provision of support services to projects.
• Uses and recommends project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking projects.
• Sets up and provides detailed guidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools and techniques.
• Supports programme or project control boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings.
• Provides basic guidance on individual project proposals
• May be involved in aspects of supporting a programme by providing a cross programme view on risk, change, quality, finance or configuration management.

Business analysis

• Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organisation.
• Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.

Requirements definition and management.

• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for smallscale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
• Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
• Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.
• Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Provides input to the requirements base-line.
• Investigates, manages and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

If required: People Management / Resource Management

• May be involved and gives some input on hiring Transition decisions
• Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development
• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload and organizational efficiency
• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.
• Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives

Key Relationships

• Global IT Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail) HR Management Controlling

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Proficient spoken and written command of English
• At least 5-year experience in IT 2 years of experience in relevant area 1 year of experience in team management
• Understanding of different culture Participated in projects with people from other functions/markets.