Associate Manager - DTO

Key Accountabilities:

Gaining agreements on and achieving project goals and objectives, balancing, and managing the project scope (including requirements), schedule, budget, quality, resources, and risks

Monitoring the business case during project execution with an outcome-oriented view focusing on the maximization of the project benefits and business impact

Leading diverse project team(s), empowering the team members to become efficient and effective

Building partnerships with the project’s stakeholders (both internal and external), leverage them to achieve organizational goals, and able to influence their opinions and negotiate effective solutions

Investigating customer expectations and responding to their feedback

Contextualizing organizational goals and shifts, recognizing opportunities, and turning those into business value

Monitoring project activities, appropriately balancing risk taking and issue escalation and setting up detailed progress / escalation reports (including suggested corrective actions) for the project sponsors and leadership team

Ensure Project Management standards and WoW are adopted as per SoPs

Implement standards, processes, and tools used for effective project management and maintain all project-related documentation and deliverables

Define digital project governance frameworks, including decision-making processes and escalation paths.

Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and digital project management best practices

Skills & Experience 

5+ years of relevant working experience, including all aspects of project development and execution, demonstrating outstanding record of project management success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodology 

Understanding of digital technologies, including emerging trends such as AI, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Cloud computing, and Data analytics. Had prior experience in effectively managing and deployed them.

Prior experience of managing multiple large-scale projects with a large number of different projects or has been responsible for large projects with innovative/operational character and with a long-term strategic goal, involving multiple business domains within the company and/or external business partners and/or customers. 

Able to set and develop strategic direction in close alignment with project sponsors and stakeholders

Organizational understanding and in-depth knowledge of all business/functions, competitors, and market trends and ability to translate this into strategic objectives 

Uses emotional intelligence to build highly effective project teams by fostering excellent cross-functional and cross-business communications between internal and external project resources, guiding, and motivating team members and integrating the work of others to achieve business objectives.

Manages internal and external stakeholders, including high-level stakeholders and acts as a seasoned advisor, providing independent opinions on complex problems and novel initiatives, and assists with handling priority issues.

Negotiation and/or subcontract management and makes capital spending recommendations 

Ability to monitor future work to proactively adjust plan and resource focus. Identifies trends and potential scheduling challenges, manages cross-project dependencies within and across the enterprise and leverages metrics and monitoring to proactively identify at-risk projects/programs and strategically escalates well-defined risks/issues/impediments to appropriate decision-makers 

Ability to identify program/projects’ interdependencies, project/program risks (opportunities and threats) and issues and identifies mitigation actions and drives in fostering a risk environment where considerate risk-taking behavior is encouraged, taking into consideration the balance between risk taking and risk escalations 

Experience with MS Project, Gantt charts, Gate Phase methodology and project management tools such as Planview, etc.

Drives daily management and methodical problem solving, embraces a vision for the future by sharing creative ideas and can explain how they can improve our business, serves as strategic contributor to organizational business strategy development with top leaders of the organization and challenges project management ways of working 

Recognizes critical project knowledge, values lessons learned, and shares critical project knowledge to the project management community. 

Exceptional communication and negotiation skills to consistently arrive at mutually accepted conclusions.

Ability to lead cross functional teams and manage resources by planning, organizing, scheduling, and coordinating the work of others.

Thrives in a collaborative environment, remains calm under pressure, and builds trust and positive relationships with others

Proficiency in managing digital projects, from initiation to closure, while adhering to timelines, budgets, and quality standards

Strong relationship-building skills to effectively engage and manage relationships with project sponsors, executives, team members, and external partners

Ability to create compelling presentations and reports for senior management and stakeholders to communicate project progress and outcomes

Strong ability to adapt to changing circumstances, emerging technologies, and evolving project management practices

• Degree - preferably in Engineering, Computer Science or similar
• PMP certification
• Experience in leading projects in the Mining and Metals industry is a plus.

Certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) or other recognized certifications like PRINCE2, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), SAFe Agilist or Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) or equivalent

The road to empowerment is the one that guards a country’s stride onwards, keeping every hurdle that poses a threat to the constant pace of progress at bay. Yet another milestone in our growth story, is the business of Natural Resources. The scale of our business assures a steady availability of coal, extracted in the most responsible ways, which promises constant supply of power to both urban and rural geographies of India ensuring no hurdles are faced by the citizens in the path to achieving their dreams. The mining industry is considered a major contributor to the growth of the Indian economy. The mining business unit of the Adani group was established in 2007 as the last link in ensuring energy security for India. We are also developing and operating mines in Indonesia and Australia.

In the past few years, we have transformed from a coal trading and importing company to a comprehensive integrated coal management company. We have a diversified trading portfolio and are involved in Coal and Coke trading.