Role: Associate Project Manager
Experience: 3 to 8 years
Education: MBA Graduate with relevant project/program management experience OR Graduate - B.Tech/B.E. - Computers, Electronics/Telecommunication; PG - M.Sc. – Computers, M.Tech – Any Specialization, MCA – Computers, OR Industrial Engineering Background
Location: Pune
About the role:
You will own project delivery operations across one or more concurrent projects — managing plans, budgets, risks, and people to ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.
Key Responsibilities:
Project planning & tracking
· Build and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and milestones
· Track progress against baselines and produce accurate, timely status reports
· Identify schedule slippages early and work with teams to course-correct
Budget & financial management
· Monitor project budgets and resource utilisation on an ongoing basis.
· Report variations in allocations and project budgets variance analysis and flag deviations with supporting data
· Support forecasting and assist in financial reporting to leadership
Risk & issue management
· Maintain comprehensive risk and issue registers
· Support removing blockers and drive resolution
· Escalate critical risks with clear context and recommended actions
People & team coordination
· Manage day-to-day coordination across cross-functional project teams
· Track individual and team deliverables; hold teams accountable to timelines
· Support capacity planning and resource allocation across workstreams
Client & stakeholder communication
· Respond to client queries and emails in a timely and professional manner
· Schedule and coordinate client-facing meetings, reviews, and check-ins
· Prepare and circulate routine project reports and updates to relevant stakeholders
· Maintain clear and organised communication trails across all project touchpoints
Governance & process
· Ensure adherence to SPAR frameworks, templates, and reporting standards
· Maintain accurate project documentation throughout the project lifecycle
· Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery processes
Required:
· MBA graduates with a minimum of 3+ years of relevant experience OR 3–8 years of experience in project management OR Industrial Engineering experience
· Proven ability to manage budgets, timelines, and cross-functional teams
· Strong analytical skills — comfortable working with data, numbers, and financial reports
· Proficient in project management tools (MS Project, Jira, or similar) and Excel
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
· Proactive problem-solver with a strong learning mindset
· Willingness to overlap with US EST hours
· Be able to join immediately
Company Profile:
SPAR Solutions (based out of Atlanta, USA and Pune, India) is an employee-friendly place full of confident, result-oriented people with high energy levels and uncompromising work ethics. Compensation (match or exceed industry benchmarks) is driven by merit and performance; there is no limit to professional growth.
If you believe that values like a consultative, detail-oriented, quick learner, team player, high performance, creativity and fun are your calling, you would be a great fit on our team.
Contact Details:
Talent Acquisition Team
HR Department / SPAR Solutions
Address: SPAR Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune IT Park, B-503, Bhau Patil Marg, 34 Aundh Road,
Bopodi, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Pin Code: 411020.
Website: sparsolutions.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spar-solutions-llc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sparsolutions
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SPARsolutions
RequirementsRequired:
· MBA graduates with a minimum of 3+ years of relevant experience OR 3–8 years of experience in project management OR Industrial Engineering experience
· Proven ability to manage budgets, timelines, and cross-functional teams
· Strong analytical skills — comfortable working with data, numbers, and financial reports
· Proficient in project management tools (MS Project, Jira, or similar) and Excel
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
· Proactive problem-solver with a strong learning mindset
· Willingness to overlap with US EST hours
· Be able to join immediately
