MercedesBenz Research and Development India Private Limited Looking for Senior Program Manager – IT Sales & Digital at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

• Project & Program Management – Lead the delivery teams to adhere to stipulated schedule, budget and quality levels, and mentor teams on necessary competencies.
• Support management in business growth and sustenance based on a target roadmap.
• Ensure a high level of motivation and satisfaction in the teams – Team development (incl. Career Path)
• Ensure a high level of Stakeholder satisfaction – across locations well as in the involved markets
• Drive processes from demand management to design to implementation, using end-to-end CI/CD data pipelines
• Leverage past hands-on experience & bring value-add throughout the end-to-end project lifecycle
• Define acceptance criteria, pipelines, review design, code, pipelines and other deliverables by your team to guarantee high-quality results
• Own the delivery & status of Change requirements throughout the lifecycle & adapt changes to the existing scripts, codes and pipelines.
• Responsible for team management and team’s competency, and for providing leadership, mentoring, and guidance to your Data teams, by setting priorities and accomplishing goals
• Maintain and review service and delivery metrics (KPIs) that identify the success of the deliverables, and bring continuous improvements to improve metrics.
• Conduct regular status meetings with all stakeholders, keeping the stakeholders needs and requirements continuously in view
• Act as a trusted advisor to our internal partners (Business Units and IT teams), and proactively communicate operational status, issues & risks in the projects to management
• Lead internal consulting engagements, managing stakeholder expectations (Business Units) and driving quality of deliverables.
• Align and appropriately use Mercedes-Benz IT project management tools, governance, processes, policies and methodologies
• Bring value-add by creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation through PoCs, encourage best practices, challenge current practices, provide feedback to team & colleagues.
• Monitor budgets, consolidate the actuals and drive the spend across the service lines, and raise timely alerts regarding budget deviations.
• Be active in communities of Business Process/SMEs and IT practitioners

Areas of Work: Design and Development (Agile), DevOps based deliveries, leading the team as a Coach, Focus on Innovation and Value-Adds, Steer based on Metrics and KPIs

Qualifikationen

Education : B.E (any field)/M.B.A (General Administration)

No of Years: 13-15 years

Specific Knowledge: (Skill / Languages etc.)

• IT Project and Program Management – Should have managed a large portfolio of projects/topics in one or more business domains. A good record of accomplishment of grooming the topics, managing schedules & budgets, as well as the people involved and showing a significant growth would be necessary.
• Should have a development background – Cloud/Microservices, Java/.NET and should have worked in Agile Development teams with a good exposure to Scrum/Kanban and DevOps methodologies.
• Proven to be a good “out of the box” thinker and should have contributed to some innovative topics
• Proven excellence in stakeholder and customer/partner management
• Exposure to Business Acquisition and Solutioning for new topics/setup
• Experience in driving projects/topics using metrics/KPIs – Data driven decisions and steering
• German Language Skills will be an added Advantage.