Description
About Alvarez & Marsal
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging workguided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversityare why our people love working at A&M.For details, please visit the company website: http://www.alvarezandmarsal.com
The Team
Our Performance Improvement team provides Business Transformation and Performance Improvement Services to Corporates, Investors, and their portfolio companies, delivering
- Performance improvement via cost reduction and revenue growth programmes
- Large, complex organizational restructuring and business transformation
- Rapid Results Program, which helps to quickly and effectively assess business process management risks and identify key areas impeding performance
How you will contribute
A&M is seeking an experienced AD that will be responsible for managing projects. You will be responsible to ensure the projects managed are delivered successfully and adhere to the PMO best practices. You will also contribute to building the PMO by helping to continue building the PMO best practices, templates and guidelines. You should be a Project Manager with strong project management skills to drive the successful execution of critical, complex and impactful business initiatives. Project Manager will provide leadership and transparency through all phases of the program / project lifecycle for initiatives and assignments, such as planning, design, development, deployment. Ensure project scope, schedule, quality, and benefits are adequately defined and delivered. Project Manager will effectively ensure that project progress is communicated to all stakeholders. Successful candidate will not only have outstanding project management skills, but also exceptional interpersonal, communication and relationship building.The role will be initially based in Gurgaon. However, the person should be open to travel as and when needed and should be open to relocate to any location our Capability Center scales and decide to relocate.
- Plan and drive execution of initiatives in partnership with internal and cross functional teams.
- Leverage subject matter expertise in driving conversations and/or influencing decisions/direction with Business, Technology, and functional partners.
- Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors, and coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Ensuring program execution, reporting and documentation as per Organizational PMO guidelines and templates
- Acting as the liaison between technical teams, business stakeholders, and CXO level leadership (Program Sponsors, Steering Committee Members). Regularly communicating progress, risks, and insights through executive dashboards and status reports
- Defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and success criteria for project. Frequently monitor outcomes, measure performance against targets, and use data-driven insights to refine program execution
- Manage, analyse, track, and escalate project risks, issues, and dependencies as well as chair regular review meetings
- Managing relationship with external vendors for project specific outsourcing requirements
- Identify priorities and manage multiple workstreams coordinating activities across departments ensuring deliverables are tracked in line with due dates
- Identify creative and timely solutions to key challenges while motivating the project teams to complete critical tasks
- Track project progress and report effectively on status, blockers, and changes. Accountable for creating, maintaining, and communicating schedules, status, issues and risks. Creates materials and presents at Steering Committees as applicable
- Track resourcing of projects and drive resource balancing between different program priorities
Qualifications
- Strong people managements skills
- 12-15 years of overall experience with minimum 5 years of direct experience as a project manager in a Tier 1 consulting firm
- Understanding of BI tools such as PowerBI, Tableau and good control on slide creation and excel modelling
- Proficient in use of Project management tools such as Shibumi, MS-Project Planner, MS-Visio, Smartsheet, SharePoint, Kanban boards, JIRA, Service Now, Azure DevOps
- Experience helping to document processes, guidelines, templates and best practices within PMOs
- You have worked complex medium to large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders.
- You are execution focused and able to organize, prioritize and manage multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously.
- You have strong partnership record and ability to build business relationships throughout the organization to foster respect and teamwork with internal and external partners.
- You can act independently, demonstrate leadership, and take initiative but work equally well within a dynamic and fast paced team environment.
- You are able to adapt within a changing environment and stay self-motivated to achieve targets and deliverables.
- You are intellectually curious, pro-active, and comfortable challenging the status quo; you are not afraid to ask questions and make proposals to solve problems.
- You know how to create reports, analyses or scorecards for the management team and have strong verbal and written presentation skills.
- Experience working in a PMO and can easily adapt to our PMO processes
Professional and positive approach while
- Diligent with attention to detail
- Ability to cope under pressure
- Effective communicator at all levels & collaborates well
- Team player, and able to work on own initiative
- Assertive, adaptable, creative and analytical
- A can-do attitude and willingness to go the extra mile when required
- Bachelor's degree in related area
Your journey at A&M
We recognize that our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we prioritize an employee experience that fosters each person's unique professional and personal development. Our robust performance development process promotes continuous learning, rewards your contributions, and fosters a culture of meritocracy. With top-notch training and on-the-job learning opportunities, you can acquire new skills and advance your career. We prioritize your well-being, providing benefits and resources to support you on your personal journey. Our people consistently highlight the growth opportunities, our unique, entrepreneurial culture, and the fun we have together as their favourite aspects of working at A&M. The possibilities are endless for high-performing and passionate professionalsInclusive DiversityA&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging workguided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversityare the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.Equal Opportunity EmployerIt is Alvarez & Marsal's practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party RecruitersPlease note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
