Project Manager

Company Description

Publicis Re:Sources is the technology and business services backbone of Publicis Groupe.

Publicis Groupe is the 3rd largest communications group worldwide, Leader in digital and Interactive Communication. With activities spanning 104 countries on five continents, Publicis Groupe employs approximately 80,000 professionals. Publicis Groupe offers local and international clients a complete range of communication services.

Job Description

• Build and develop the project team to ensure maximum performance, providing purpose, direction, and motivation
• Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans, including risk mitigation
• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
• Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establish customer/client classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
• Participates in the QA and UAT of solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
• Participates in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Creates process models, flow diagrams, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Provides guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.
• Agile to work in different time zones
• Provide demo to business/clients. Requirement closures and timely delivery

Qualifications

• University degree in the field of business administration, finance, Procure to Pay, Media, Information technology or information systems
• Professional certification would be an advantage—including PMP/PRINCE II
• 5 to 8 Years related work experience as PM/business analyst
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources
• Working knowledge of Windows/Web online office systems, Visio, Workflow management
• Excellent understanding of the organization’s & Product goals and objectives

Additional Information

• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills on scenario discussions
• Extensive Media billing application knowledge . Working experience of Media Ocean tools like Spectra, Prisma etc.
• Ability to foresee ongoing market trends and bring enhancements in Media billing application.
• Manage vendor and customer questions and coordinate between agencies
• Regulatory compliance knowledge will be an added advantage
• Reporting (MIS and Power BI) dashboard will be an added advantage
• Support the media finance reconciliation process with shared financial service for accounts receivable, accounts payable, media operations, media strategy, and corporate accounting as it relates to timely review and reconciliations of accounts with a view to credit and debit adjustments
• Coordination and maintenance of Insertion Orders, process and procedures, billing approvals with External and Inter-company partner(s)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to network
• Good analytical and organizational skills
• Effective at working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation and communication
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Workflow creation/Management of business processes
• Expert in Microsoft Office online, One drive and other file sharing tool and other file sharing tools
• Good knowledge of System Requirement and Specifications, Scope of Work, Functional Requirements, Non-Functional Requirements, Dependency, Data Models, Assumptions, Constraints, Acceptance Criteria
• Excellent Skill on preparing below set of documents as a project BA:
• • a. FSD – Functional Specification Document
  • b. TSD - Technical Specification Document
  • c. BRD - Business Requirement Document
  • d. UCD - Use Case Diagram
  • e. RTM - Requirement Traceability Matrix, etc.