Project Manager

JOB SUMMARY

Perform end-to-end management of a single or portfolio of projects with

TCV 500K

- $1Mn in deliverables based or outcome-based model, ensuring the agreed scope, timelines, and cost are met. Fully ensure project success, acceptance criteria, and enhanced customer satisfaction. Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management:

• Identify key stakeholders, establish and maintain positive business relationships, maintain regular communication, and address needs with empathy.

• Project Planning & Execution:

• Define activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skill needs, interfaces, and budgets. Optimize costs, time utilization, minimize waste, and deliver projects on time and within budget with high quality.

• Risk Management:

• Anticipate possible risks, manage them using suitable strategies, and develop contingency plans.

• Governance:

• Define and implement project governance models.

• Performance Management:

• Plan and implement metrics-driven management and quantitatively assess project health.

• Process Orchestration:

• Orchestrate projects to develop or implement new processes to meet business needs. Implement software delivery methodologies and instill customer confidence.

• Team Leadership:

• Build, manage, and nurture high-performing teams, provide mentoring, ensure engagement, develop capabilities, ensure seamless communication, and resolve conflicts.

• Best Practices:

• Adopt and build software engineering best practices for broader team leverage.

• Scope Management:

• Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, control, and prioritization. Drive common standards (design documents, traceability matrix, etc.). Partner with customers for requirements. Manage customer expectations through deliverables like wireframes, prototypes, and demos. Conduct impact analysis and negotiate scope changes.

• Estimation and Resource Planning:

• Consolidate estimates, evaluate risks, and validate from a technical standpoint. Review and negotiate estimates across service lines. Conduct resource planning and impact analysis for changes. Identify roles and skills based on project requirements and KPIs.

• Project/Schedule Management:

• Identify and plan end-to-end activities for project acceptance. Plan and manage multiple small/medium projects/modules. Identify risks and mitigation strategies. Anticipate schedule delays and dependencies. Identify options to fast-track schedules. Estimate work, plan, track activities, and report progress.

• Risk/Issue Management:

• Proactively identify dependencies impacting project KPIs and track them. Identify and track project risks, following escalation paths. Document, communicate, and track the impact of risks and issues.

• Test and Defect Management:

• Ensure test approach is defined and agreed. Support system integration testing. Review/mentor teams during test execution. Support test strategy and scenario definition. Understand the business impact of defects. Prioritize and triage defects. Identify and analyze root causes. Interpret results.

• Configuration Management:

• Ensure and drive configuration processes within the project scope. Provide information and demonstrate work during configuration audits and implement corrective actions.

• Software Development Process Tools & Techniques:

• Define/adopt tooling strategy. Guide teams to develop efficient, high-quality work products. Meet project goals, ensure process compliance, and mentor teams.
• Governance (Quality):
• Create continuous quality improvement plans and define QA processes/plans. Tailor quality guidelines to project requirements. Identify root causes and implement corrective actions.

• Domain/Industry Knowledge:

• Guide research on key business environments and competitive landscapes. Understand how solutions meet client requirements. Identify key industry parameters for market sensing.

• Technology Concepts:

• Understand customer technology landscapes. Map business requirements to technology requirements. Set customer expectations. Leverage knowledge for daily work and team skill upgrades. Provide inputs on potential opportunity areas.

• Profitability Management:

• Analyze project profitability. Create profitability sheets, modify parameters, and identify margin impacts. Carry out basic deal pricing and apply project principles for profitability improvement.

• Pricing & Licensing Models:

• Define pricing models for medium complex projects. Conduct estimations for complex projects. Understand pricing strategies and business models. Review simple proposals.
• Knowledge Management (KM):
• Establish KM plans and platforms for new joiners and team knowledge sharing. Ensure project learnings are contributed to the repository. Enable organization-level KM Platforms for consumption.

• Account Management Processes and Tools:

• Comply with account management activities and drive relevant KPIs. Ability to write contracts mitigating potential risks. Collaborate with other projects and enabling functions.

• Solution Structuring:

• Present proposed solutions highlighting benefits and roadmaps. Define Win Themes and carve out simple solutions/POCs. Review proposals for completeness.

• Self-Development and Organizational Initiatives:

• Review project artifacts. Participate in forums, share best practices and learnings. Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools. Enhance knowledge to leverage software engineering methodologies, concepts, and automation.

• Team Development:

• Implement skill assessment frameworks and work with teams on skill enhancement plans. Nurture innovation potential within the team. Provide feedback and enable team independence and growth. Identify and guide career aspirations and development plans. Required Qualifications

• Skill Examples:

• Impact and Influence, Relationship building, Project strategy planning, Risk identification and action planning, Project plan definition, Project progress communication (cost control, schedule, quality, risk, changes), Task delegation and team member contribution management, Management of external contracted resources, Optimization of project portfolio timelines, Project health assessment using quantitative measures, Conflict management (team and external stakeholders), Collaboration with techno-functional teams.

• Knowledge Examples:

• Project methodology (steps, action plans), Technologies to be implemented, Company business strategy and processes, Financial plans and budget compliance, IPR principles and regulation, Structured project management methodologies (e.

g., agile techniques), Estimation techniques, Metrics analysis and quantitative management, Root cause analysis, People management (goal setting, growth, coaching), Understanding of quality and governance models and aligning deliverables. Preferred Qualifications

• None explicitly listed. Certifications
• None explicitly listed.