APAC IT Project Manager

Our client is looking for an APAC IT Project Manager in Shanghai.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop project plans including work breakdown structures, project milestones, critical path analyses, risk assessment and management plans, cost/benefit analyses, staffing plans, project timelines, and project budgets
• Anticipate potential roadblocks and identify solutions in advance
• Identify, document and escalate risks and issues through program and management
• Prepare project status reports for upper management
• Ensure project milestones are met on time and within budget
• Gather relevant information systematically, consider a broad range of issues and factors, grasp complexities and perceived relationships among problems or issues and determine proper course of corrective action
• Drive decisions to ensure the success of projects taking into account timing, risk, functional requirements, and business benefits
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with project team members, project sponsors, suppliers, and other cross functional teams
• Act as the central point of contact for all project activities
• Assign responsibilities to all project resources, manage the day-to-day tasks and activities. This includes ensuring that tasks are completed on time and roadblocks and/or obstacles are identified and escalated to management
• Alert project owners and sponsors of actions that can impact project schedule, costs, or quality of deliverables
• Provide necessary information to project owners to make relevant decisions
• Identify ways to accelerate project execution where practical while maintaining high quality standards
• Ensure adherence to the standard project methodology(s), practices, and tools
• Contribute to the analysis of capacity and resource staffing levels
• Drive continuous improvement to project execution methodology(s), practices, and tools
• Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, maintaining a project budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions
• Defines and documents project dependencies
• Drives decisions to ensure project success taking into account timing, risk, functional and technical requirements, and business benefits
• Serves as the liaison with contract and vendor management teams to facilitate third party SOW development and acceptance

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years of experience as a Project Manager, managing complex projects ranging from mid-size to large corporate IT initiatives
• Solid supply chain, sales marketing & finance related project management experience, especially in a global environment
• Experience in the automotive and/or manufacturing industries is a plus
• Understanding of both Original Equipment and Aftermarket business models is preferred
• Proven experience managing concurrent, full life-cycle project implementations
• Good Knowledge of ERP implementation (especially SAP) will be preferred, understanding regional sales & commercial solution will be an advantage ,such as CRM, DMS, BI, Ecommerce etc.
• Experience with supplier management and leading third party teams
• Understanding of all facets of IT including strategic planning, requirements gathering, software development lifecycle, and cost benefit analysis
• Knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to translate into process and decision criteria for governing programs
• Proficient in project management methodology, project planning tools and techniques; Waterfall and/or Agile experience preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with all levels of management
• Strong ability to collaborate, influence and build consensus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with the ability to interface and influence at multiple levels of the organizational
• Excellent relationship building and networking skills
• Excellent technical, organizational, troubleshooting, problem-solving, budgeting and time management skills
• Basic knowledge of finance tools and general business operating principles
• Strong organization skills and the ability to function successfully within a global team environment
• Proficient at demand, capacity, and resource management techniques
• Ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies
• Ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
• Ability to excel within a matrixed organization
• Experience in large, complex global project delivery
• Goal oriented and driven to meet project deliverables and deadlines
• Experience with supplier management and managing external teams
• Experience learning and applying a new project methodology

Education Requirements

• Education: four (4) year undergraduate degree (IT or related field preferred) or equivalent experience
• Certificate / License: Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate is preferred