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Project Manager

Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

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Requisition Number: 201224

External Description:

Role: Project Manager

Location : Guangzhou, Shenzhen

Industry : Manufacturing/airline/retail/Internet/Finance 

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, scheduling, monitoring, and directing projects that incorporate Teradata,, Teradata Applications, or a Teradata solution meeting agreed upon client requirements and expected Teradata business results. The Project Manager requires excellent written and good spoken English skills; including being able to conduct business communication in the English language. The Project Manager may lead a single project or oversee multiple smaller sub-projects. The Project Manager manages Teradata employees and third party contractors to ensure projects meet established time, cost, technical, and quality objectives. The Project Manager supports projects beginning in the pre-contract sales process and will manage them through closeout. The Project Manager may be supported by additional Project Managers, and/or Project Tech Leads. 

Key Areas of Responsibilities 

Sales Support & Business Development

  • Lead the scoping, planning, cost estimating, and pricing of consulting projects. Responsible for statement of work development and risk assessment, including but not limited to defining goals and objectives, identifying and documenting client requirements, resource requirements, project budget, project risks, and the translation of the client’s business requirements into specific deliverables.
  • During the engagement, identify future sales opportunities; participate in pre-sales planning, project pricing, bid review, and presentation of sales proposals. Acquire incremental business within the project through change control.

Project Oversight:

  • Lead a data warehouse implementation project or a collection of multiple small projects. Examples include Teradata EDW, Teradata Aster, Hadoop, Teradata Applications, and other Teradata Solutions.
  • Ensure projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within client expectations for quality and functionality.
  • Manage client acceptance of the solution and manage client expectations in line with the agreed statement of work.
  • Manage day-to-day relationship with client stakeholders and resolution of all issues.
  • Maintain and communicate project status to all stakeholders in reports and status meetings.

Resource Management:

  • Build a project team, including Teradata employees, offshore resources, and contractors.
  • Ensure proper set up of the engagement in the time keeping system, ensuring consultants and contractors are always current with their reported time. Produces project financial and status reports from PSA and EDW systems.
  • Ensure monthly billings, timely collection of revenue, and manage procurement and payment to contractors.

Knowledge Capture & Reuse

  • Ensure that PS knowledge resources and tools are fully leveraged (e.g. Teradata Solutions Methodology - TSM, Global Reference Information Architecture, and Control Framework)
  • Lead project/engagement close-out debriefings to identify lessons learned and best practices
  • Contribute to the Teradata Body Of Knowledge 

Skills 

Technical/Functional

  • Business Needs Analysis — Ability to define the client’s requirements within the context of their business. Ability to assess the opportunities, benefits, risks, and success factors of a potential solution.
  • Requirements Analysis and Management — Ability to systematically identify, document, and manage project requirements. Tracing the requirements from source through implementation and verification and controlling all requirements and scope change.
  • Procurement/Supplier Management — Estimate, plan, and manage the work of subcontractors and other external project resources. Develop and manage subcontracting agreements.
  • System/Technology Integration — Ability to identify and bring together a variety of technologies to deliver a complete information system that supports operational and management objectives.
  • Project Planning and Organizing — Define project scope, estimate time, cost, and resource requirements. Plan project according to advocated Teradata PM Methodology. Assess project risk, develop risk mitigation strategies, and support the sales team to develop contracts and project pricing.
  • Managing Project Implementation — Manage all aspect of post-sale implementation of a project.
  • Testing a Data Warehouse — Ability to prepare for, administer, and validate the results of unit, vendor, component integration, system acceptance, deployment readiness, and user acceptance testing to ensure conformance to business, functional, and quality requirements.
  • Tools and IP – Leverage and use of the Teradata Solutions Methodology - TSM, Global Reference Information Architecture, and Control Framework.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
  • Knowledge of Architecture Principles, Advocated Positions, Design Patterns, and Implementation Alternatives.
  • Understanding of the Teradata Reference Information Architecture

Consulting Competency

  • Coaching — Provide timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge and skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem.
  • Decision-Making — Ability to use logical sound judgment and experience to determine the appropriate course of action based on scenario, procedures, and guidelines for a given situation.
  • Problem-Solving — Gather and use information needed to develop effective solutions to difficult problems or situations.
  • Facilitation and Meeting Management — Guide the activities of an individual, group, or team toward a desired result or outcome. Drive consensus and team ownership of decisions.
  • Influencing Others — Ability to assert ideas and persuade others to commit to action.
  • Conflict Management and Negotiation — Ability to come to sound agreements with counterparts in business or organizational situations where there is disagreement or differences in interest.
  • Communications — Communicates effectively at all levels, with Teradata and client personnel internal and external to the project team. Communicates project status and issues effectively. Able to perform all project communications effectively in the English language with excellent written and good spoken English skills. 

任职要求 

  • 本科或以上学历;
  • 5年以上工作经验,航空/或零售/或制造/或金融/或互联网 行业从业经验3年以上,项目管理经验2年以上;
  • 精通所在行业,具备与客户方高层有效沟通的能力;
  • 有营销咨询或经营分析项目经验者优先;
  • 具备统筹管理能力,能担负大型项目管控,具备一定的售前销售能力,能够掌控客户目标;
  • 具备团队领导能力,能够选拨、培训、辅导员工,善于进行团队建设 ,有PMP认证优先;
  • 责任心强,抗压性强;

能接受50%出差;

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City: SHENZHEN

State: Beijing Shi

Community / Marketing Title: Project Manager

Job Category: Consulting

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