Role: Associate Project Manager

Experience: 5 to 8 years
Education: Graduate - B.Tech/B.E. - Computers, Electronics/Telecommunication;
PG - M.Sc. – Computers, M.Tech - Any Specialization, MCA – Computers, OR
MBA Graduate with relevant project/program management experience
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 dedeviations
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:
- 5–8 years of experience in project management OR MBA graduates with a minimum of 3+years of relevant 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