Project Manager

CLOUD PROJECT MANAGER

Location- KL(Puchong)

Work Set up: Hybrid, 2 days per week on Site, 3 days off site

Mode of Employment:- Annual Renewable contract

Job Description: -

As a Cloud Project Manager, you will be responsible to deliver projects that span across one or

more business units. Will manage resources, schedules, and financials throughout the project's

life cycle. This includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure

successful and on-time project delivery.

The Cloud Project Manager will run the project on a day-to-day basis, coordinate between delivery

teams, make sure that the project produces the required deliverables within the specified

constraints of time and cost, and achieve the desired results.

Main missions

Your responsibilities include:

• Collaborates with stakeholders to document project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and estimated resources needed.
• Ensures that projects remain in-scope and meet budgetary, scheduling, and quality requirements.
• Creates, manages, and distributes project communications artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets.
• Provides project status updates at predetermined time intervals to all stakeholders.
• Communicates routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders, actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
• Assists in business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs, estimates, and schedules.
• Sets and monitors project budgets and staffing requirements.
• Ensures adherence to legally binding requirements.
• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring.
• Establishes key project criteria metrics.
• Develop project control and reporting procedures and manage changes in operational plan.
• Plans and leads status review meetings, which may include internal team members, vendors, and customers.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
• Continue professional development (technical and personal) in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices.
• Resolves technical and operational issues as required.

About you

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in project management, business management, or related area of study.
• 5-7 years of experience as a Technical Project Manager or similar position responsible for defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability, and effective delivery of products or services.
• 2 years experience dealing with Cloud Financial Management (FinOps).
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in managing critical and complex projects.
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and leading department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment, promoting a teamwork mentality and applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.
• Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing and internally facing products or services.
• Experience in delivering projects using Agile, PMI or PMP framework.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency with industry-standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software programs.

Technical skills

• PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization
• SCRUM Certified
• Azure or AWS Fundamentals Certified
• Min 1 year of hands-on Cloud Technical Experience
• Cloud FinOps Certification preferred
• Familiarity using Power BI Reporting Tool

Soft skills / transversal skills

• Effective communication skills to foster better teamwork, collaboration, and customer relations.
• Emotional intelligence (EI) to recognize and manage emotions, both in oneself and others. It involves empathy, self-awareness, and the ability to handle interpersonal relationships with tact and sensitivity.
• Critical thinking to evaluate options and implement strategies to overcome obstacles. To approach challenges with confidence and contribute innovative ideas to your organization.
• Leadership skills in motivating, inspiring, and influencing others to achieve common goals.
• Time management and organizational skills to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.