Basic Information

Ref Number

Req_00078929

Primary Location

Cascadas

Country

El Salvador

Description and Requirements

Responsibilities: 

Leading project planning sessions, coordination resources, managing project progress and adapting work as required. Ensuring projects meet deadlines, managing relationships with stakeholders, signing-off user acceptance testing, signing-off projects upon closure. Able to estimate incoming work efforts, document assumptions and map estimates to schedules. Able to mitigate risks, identify and handle issues and pivot to address changes. Collaborate with stakeholders, team members and operational team members on an ongoing basis in a manner that demonstrates the TI/TCI values. Build and maintain sound working relationships. Perform all activities required to initiate, run, monitor and close a project whether agile, hybrid or waterfall SDLCs. Identify and manage cost and schedule variance. Partnering with application development leaders on resource and capacity management Overseeing all incoming and outgoing project documentation. Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach where and when necessary. Conducting retrospective meetings, determining best practices, and applying them to increase project team performance. Creating and controlling communication strategies for stakeholders, keeping stakeholders and companies boards updated of project status in a periodic, effective and consistent manner. Constantly assess the project against Product Business Case and Project goals to maintain the project value proposition.

Skills: 

● Effective Communication. 

● Negotiation. 

● Leadership capabilities. Ability to lead and motivate. 

● Self-Organized. 

● Critical thinking and problem solving. 

● Decision-making skills. 

● Adaptable to change. 

● Able to work under stress. 

● Customer-oriented mindset. 

● Administrative and reporting abilities. 

● Team management and team player. 

● Desire to continually improve and learn. 

● Strong written and verbal communication skills. 

Knowledge: 

● English - B2 

• Oral and written comprehension. 

• Appropriate use of language 

● Google Workspace - Advanced 

● Microsoft Office - Advanced 

● Knowledge of project management processes, techniques, and tools, based on PMI and Agile Methodologies. Ability to manage projects using a variety of methodologies (waterfall and agile) - Advanced. 

● Knowledgeable project management standards and best practices - Advanced.

● Solid understanding of project communication, risk and change management, KPIs, including contingency planning and risk mitigation - Advanced. 

● Demonstrated experience with managing cost/budget, schedule, resources, scope of delivery across the full SDLC using a variety of different tools and techniques - Advanced. 

● Strong IT technical knowledge specifically in software development, and/or implementations for in-house and off the shelf. 

● Effective Stakeholders management experience. 

● Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment and ability to manage conflict. 

● Transparency with project risks and issues throughout the delivery cycle and driving project governance. 

Studies & Experience: 

● Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems or Industrial Engineering or equivalent field 

● 2 - 5 years experience as a project manager of IT delivery

● Experience working in virtual environments with global teams 

● Project Management Professional (PMP)/ CAMP certification 

● Agile certification / Scrum Master Certification generally recognised in the industry (e.g. PMI-ACP, Scrum Alliance, Scrum Study,etc) 

● Proven experience as a Scrum Master or leader in other agile delivery e.g. Scrum, Kanban, etc. 

● Experience in managing web software platforms or products with associated SLA´s

● Experience in strategic planning, change, and risk management 

● Business analysis experience, creating workbooks, requirement gathering experience


Equal Opportunity Employer:
At TELUS International, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.

Additional Job Description

About the role

As an Applications Development Project Manager is responsible for planning, overseeing, and leading projects from assessment through completion, making sure to meet client expectations. Oversees all aspects of projects, sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of a project.  Prepares reports for upper management regarding project(s) statuses.  As Project Manager, the person will be working closely with the team members to ensure that all project requirements, deadlines, high-quality levels, and schedules are met and on track. 

EEO Statement

At TELUS International, we enable customer experience innovation through spirited teamwork, agile thinking, and a caring culture that puts customers first. TELUS International is the global arm of TELUS Corporation, one of the largest telecommunications service providers in Canada.   We deliver contact center and business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions to some of the world's largest corporations in the consumer electronics, finance, telecommunications and utilities sectors. With global call center delivery capabilities, our multi-shore, multi-language programs offer safe, secure infrastructure, value-based pricing, skills-based resources and exceptional customer service - all backed by TELUS, our multi-billion dollar telecommunications parent.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At TELUS International, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.