About the Role
• Manage short and long term projects and programs within McAfee Consumer Engineering.
• Ensures that each project/program meets the goals and objectives and is achieved within the approved timeframe, scope and budget.
• Evaluate project team progress and communicate status effectively and issues to management appropriately
Primary Responsibilities
• Manage multiple simultaneous cross functional teams and projects across various sites & geographical locations. (Work directly with Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, and IT to gather product requirements, define key tasks, track project deliverables, dependencies, and milestones throughout the complete project lifecycle)
• Experienced in driving project lifecycle processes, scheduling, risk management, and conflict resolution techniques.
• Create and maintain detailed project schedules and project management plans, taking into account all dependencies and constraints
• Must possess professional management skills; leadership, planning, influencing, negotiating, problem-solving, and load balancing.
• Must be able to drive process and achieve results in an ever-changing environment without direct authority.
• Manage change in accordance with the change management plant to control scope, quality, schedule, cost, and contracts.
• Motivate the team using appropriate tools and techniques in order to increase commitment to the program objectives.
• Establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies in order to assess potential partnership and commitment to the program.
• Capture program status and data by ensuring the population of the program management information system in order to maintain accurate and current program information for the use of stakeholders.
• Obtain senior management approval for the program by presenting the program charter with its high-level costs and benefits for the organization in order to receive authorization to proceed to the next phase(s)
Experience:
• Must be highly motivated and equally comfortable working on 1-day, 2-weeks, or 6-month plus projects in a pressured dynamic atmosphere.
• Must have experience with traditional boxed software lifecycles and software localization processes and terminology
• Must have experience with project lifecycles, scheduling, risk management, and conflict resolution techniques.
• Must have excellent, proven verbal and written communication and people skills to be able to communicate both internally and externally.
• Experience working on projects which require 3rd party vendors and outsourcing projects
• Agile Project Management experience a definite asset to help drive adoption of Agile for your projects/programs
• Must possess professional management skills; leadership, planning, influencing, negotiating, problem-solving, and load balancing
• Experience in ecommerce & web domain based projects will be an added advantage.
• Experience in Software Development and/or Testing will be an added advantage.
• Experience in working in a product based company is preferred.
• Experience in networking and/or security domain products will be an added advantage.
• In depth understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Strong Leadership skills and a team player. Able to communicate project objectives and motivate project teams to complete deliverables on time and with high quality
• Excellent Risk and Issue Management skills. Proactively identify risks and issues and have appropriate mitigation/contingency/action plans created by the risk/issue owner. Use appropriate judgment to escalate as necessary
• High passion & commitment to execute projects as per the timelines set.
• Willingness to learn new processes, propagate them and drive change management.
• Provide recommendations to streamline or make existing processes more efficient.
• Willingness to work on fast paced projects including taking meetings & calls beyond normal business hours
• Ability to measure the health of the project/s by using appropriate metrics
• Must be proficient in MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
Qualifications & Skill Sets Required for the role:
•10-12 years of work experience: 4+yrs Program Management experience in software development and web deployment
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• PMP certification an asset
• Experience with Primavera an asset
• Agile experience a definite asset
Interested candidates can send their resume to manjusha_kn@McAfee.com.
