Project Lead

The roles requires use of AI as a strategic lever to bring effeciency in demands and project managemet.

Primary duties and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Demand Planning and Initiation

• Define demand process to Business stakeholders
• Raising demand and overseeing its approval process with all relevant teams
• Providing regular feedback to Business stakeholders on the demand progress

• Project Planning and Initiation

• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Develop project plans where required, including timelines, milestones, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Identify potential risks and create mitigation strategies.

• Project Execution

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to execute project tasks.
• Monitor project progress, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate change management processes.

• Stakeholder Communication

• Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status.
• Facilitate meetings, presentations, and discussions to ensure alignment and resolve issues.
• Document and communicate project decisions, risks, and outcomes.

• AI at Core

• Develop Use cases in AI to replace daily routine and rule-based task
• Propose and develop solutions in AI for team to focus more on high level work rather than data entry, basic scheduling and contest drafting

• Proactiveness

• Taking initiative to align and understand requirements with business and System owners/ developers.
• Proactively follow up with relevant teams to complete whole cycle till go live.
• Eager to learn new processes and systems.

• Personal growth

• Willingness to grow personally and professionally.
• Problem solving attitude.
• Good communication to interact with cross culture teams.

1. Education / Professional Certification

Preferred level of education (unskilled/vocational training/bachelor/university degree); preferred Institutes if any.

· Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Information technology or a related field.

· Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in project management, preferably in Multinational company setup.

· Hands on experience in developing solutions using AI tools for various uses cases mostly in project management processes

2. Experience

Number of Years / Relevant Experience / Preferred Industry

· Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in project management, preferably in Multinational company setup

3. Knowledge / Skills / Other characteristics

· Understanding of project management methodologies

· Excellent organizational and time-management skills.

· Proficient in AI and development in AI

· Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

· Ability to deal with cross cultural teams. Interest in current IT trends and technology

4. Personal Attributes

· Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivering results.

· High attention to detail and commitment to quality.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Itishree Pani