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Maria IqbalMI

Maria Iqbal

AI Project Manager

€350/day
Berlin, DE
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Maria

Project Delivery Leader with 8+ years of experience in managing Enterprise technology projects across diverse industries, including Telecommunications, Fashion, and Finance. My expertise lies in steering high-performing teams and facilitating strategic communication to bridge the gap between technical execution and business objectives.
  • German

    Basic

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Zalando
    Technical Project Manager
    March 2022 - May 2026 (4 years and 2 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    • • Drive Finance Reporting transformation initiatives, achieving 70% on-time project delivery by aligning stakeholder priorities and managing competing demands across teams.
    • • Lead three streams (Business Analysts, Data Engineers, and Reporting Engineers), managing 11-13 FTEs.
    • • Ensure reporting solutions are matched with upstream finance systems and enterprise data sources, enabling consistent and reliable financial insights across 100% of reports.
    • • Establish structured planning, prioritization, and governance practices to proactively identify risks and resolve stakeholder conflicts, reducing escalations by 90%.
    • • Present delivery progress, architectural considerations, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
    • • Lead change initiatives to modernize and phase out legacy reporting processes.
    • • Define critical success factors and measurable KPIs to monitor program performance, driving a 10% improvement in stakeholder satisfaction.
    • • Advise cross-functional teams on best practices for digital transformation, resulting in a 20% increase in project efficiency within 6 months.
    • • Environment: JIRA, Confluence, AWS, ETL pipelines, MSTR, Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Miro, KPI/OKR frameworks.
    Scrum Project Management Agile method Projektmanagement Team management
  • Afiniti
    Program Manager / Portfolio Delivery Lead – AI Solutions
    July 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 5 months)
    • • Worked closely with service leads (architects) to deliver MVP capabilities in new verticals through iterative releases, accelerating time-to-market by 20%.
    • • Strengthened governance by standardizing JIRA and GIT workflows, improving project predictability and delivery efficiency across 3+ teams(8 FTEs).
    • • Facilitated executive-level triage discussions for strategic deployments and issue resolution, reducing critical incident resolution time.
    Project Management Team management Risk Management Stakeholder Management Change Management
  • S&P Global
    Business Analyst – Enterprise Data & ESG Initiatives
    July 2018 - June 2020 (1 year and 11 months)
    • • Led multidisciplinary programs supporting enterprise data and ESG initiatives, delivering 8+ projects across multiple divisions.
    • • Expanded marketplace data delivery pipelines across divisions, reducing data duplication by 30% and improving operational efficiency.
    • • Provided product and technical support to client-facing teams, improving issue resolution time by 10% and enhancing stakeholder satisfaction.
    Data analysis Project Management artificial intelligence Data visualization Scrum

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Education

  • Software Engineering
    Fatima Jinnah Women's University
    2015
    Software Engineering
  • Masters Project Management
    Bahria University
    2018

Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
    Scrum.org
    2023
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
    Scrum Alliance
    2023

Skill set

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