Associate Project Manager

Role: Associate Project Manager
Shift: General
Company: Morningstar is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. We offer a wide variety of products and solutions that serve market participants of all kinds, including individual and institutional investors in public and private capital markets, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and issuers of securities.
Morningstar India has been a Great Place to Work-certified company for the past eight consecutive years.
The team: The Morningstar Retirement business unit focuses on helping individuals achieve better outcomes by collaborating with institutional clients in the global defined contribution and workplace markets. This is a high growth area for Morningstar and houses a diverse product suite and unique client base. By constantly evolving our solutions and solving our clients' problems, we believe we are positioned well for continued future growth.
The Role: The Morningstar Retirement team is looking for a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, creative, and purposeful candidate to join it is Project Management team as an Associate Project Manager. This is a role in our Mumbai Retirement team. As an Associate Project Manager, you will partner with Program and Project Managers to manage critical projects working in a highly collaborative environment with product management, technology, and operations (including our corporate functions such as Finance, IT, Talent & Culture) globally to ensure successful delivery.
You will be well versed with Agile methodologies and various Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, daily stand ups and Sprint reviews. You must have some experience collaborating with globally distributed teams on projects of varying sizes and complexity and understands the fundamental concepts of project management in a traditional or agile environment.
Responsibilities:• Work as an assistant to Conceptualize, define, and manage technology projects from end-to-end, working closely with the development and business teams.• This position involves collaborating closely with the Project Managers/Program Managers to ensure project goals are met, resources are optimized, and potential issues are addressed promptly.• Understand key elements of project management and organize small- scale projects by preparing project management plans including project objectives/business case, deliverables, key steps/ milestones, success factors, project schedules and communication plans.• Work as a Scrum Master for self-organizing and cross-functional scrum teams.• Lead Agile ceremonies for projects, driving effective sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews to ensure timely delivery of initiatives.• Empower the team by mentoring on best practices in Agile and project management, while also fostering a learning and collaborative culture within the team.• Utilize project management tools such as JIRA and Asana to track project progress, manage tasks, and facilitate communication among project stakeholders.• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization to ensure transparency and alignment on project goals, progress, and outcomes.• Coordinate project administrative structure such as meeting cadence, agenda preparation, meeting minutes, documentation and assignment of project risks, action items, issues and decisions (RAID log).• Monitor project/program success metrics.• Serve as an active member of the PMO team, helping to define processes, process improvements, standards, and metrics.
Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field with 5+ years of professional experience.• Minimum of 2 years of project management experience, ideally in BFSI domain.• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience in working with the Agile teams.• Strong organizational, communication, time management, problem solving, and analytical skills.• Knowledge of traditional and agile project-management frameworks.• Proactive planning and organizing skills for uncertainties with positive attitude.• Ability to influence decision-making processes and foster an environment of healthy team debate.• Possess strong active listening skills.• PMP, CSM or equivalent is a plus.• Experience with Jira and Asana is a plus.• This is a hybrid position currently requiring three days in our Mumbai office.
EOE Statement: Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer
If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
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