Posted Sep 15, 2021 30 views
The Project Manager is responsible for providing pre-sales support, planning, scheduling, monitoring, and directing projects on agreed client requirements and expected business results. The Project Manager will lead a single project or portfolio of projects depending upon size and complexity. The Project Manager manages employees and third-party contractors to ensure projects meet established time, cost, technical and quality objectives. The Project Manager owns projects beginning in the pre-contract sales process and will manage them through complete closeout.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Lead a consulting project or a collection of multiple projects.
- Responsible for end-to-end engagement from inception to closure, ensure that the right software development approach is followed.
- Identify and bring together a variety of technologies to deliver a complete information system that supports operational and management objectives. Define the client’s requirements within the context of their business and assess the opportunities, benefits, risks, and success factors of a potential solution.
- Participate in scoping, planning, cost estimating, pricing of consulting projects, 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
- Ensure projects are completed on time, quality, and within budget on client expectations
- Be responsible for and manage the budget/cost (P&L)
- Manage day-to-day relationships with all stakeholders including customers and resolution of issues if any.
- Manage client acceptance of the solution in line with the agreed business outcomes.
- Maintain and communicate project status to all internal and external stakeholders
- Build a project team, including employees, offshore team, and contractors.
- Ensure proper set up of the engagement in the timekeeping system, ensuring consultants and contractors are always current with their reported time.
- Manages and/or produces project financial and status reports for the engagement
- Ensure that knowledge resources and tools are fully leveraged
- Lead project/engagement close-out debriefings to identify lessons learned and best practices
- Responsible for preparation and compliance with internal controls and documents including participation in periodic reviews and audits as mandated by internal and client stakeholders
Education and Experience
- Graduate in any discipline, preferably an MBA from a top business school with 2+ years of total experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in managing Data warehouse, Business intelligence, Migration, Application, and Analytics projects.
- Proven experience record of minimum 6-8 years demonstrating the ability to manage successful project deliveries including strategic planning, budget/cost management (P&L), risk management, and change management
- Proven experience in managing large multi-national, multi-cultural teams across geographies on projects and in executing projects of different types eg. Development, data warehousing, migration, support.
- Experience as a client-facing/onsite project manager
- Working industry knowledge will be a plus, viz. Communication/Finance/Aviation/ Manufacturing/Retail
Interpersonal/Professional Skills
- Virtual team and customer management
· Customer-centric with an ability to work in large teams.
- Task-oriented and solution-driven with a focus on deliverables, quality, cost, and timelines
- Emotional intelligence and ardor for working with people.
- Organized and detail-oriented
- Proactive, Innovative with an analytical mindset
- Able to work under pressure in a challenging environment
- Ability to work within multiple time zones and diverse cultures
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Ability to guide the activities of an individual, group, or team toward a desired result or outcome. Drive consensus and team ownership of decisions.
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