Project Manager

Title : Project Manager

Location : Bengaluru

Responsible for planning, organizing, managing, and controlling projects as well as communication on all aspects of the assigned project within the scope, time, cost and quality thresholds set

Responsible for leading and supporting the project team to ensure successful delivery and closure of the assigned project

Facilitates the development of the project artefacts and other documentation in collaboration with the project team

Facilitates regular project team meetings to review risks & issues and monitor project health and progress

Create regular Project Status Reports and distribute them to external and internal stakeholders

Manage and control costs to drive financially healthy projects.

Track the project profit margin by governing planned vs. actual efforts.

Provide training to others and assist them with their professional development

Responsible for managing corporate, customer and third-party vendor efforts to plan and implement SoftwareONE solutions.

Guarantee the performance of the teams, with quality and opportunity before the clients, and ensure that the guidelines of both the clients and the organizations frameworks are met.

Responsible for directly managing multiple projects across different service lines targeting more than 70% productive utilization on customer facing projects

Manages first level to mid-level client delivery relationships and resolve conflicts

Ensures team members support knowledge sharing and leverage the learnings from other projects

Track and manage project activities such as Schedule Management, Cost Management, Risk & Issues Management, Meeting Management and Change Management using standard templates provided by Global PMO

Raise change requests proactively, external and internal as applicable and ensure governance around planned vs. actual variance w.r.t schedule, effort, cost, etc.

Support project reporting activities on various tools as per the guidelines and complete all administrative tasks as needed

Log 40hrs of time every week in SwoDP tool ( SoftwareONE Delivery Platform)

Follow all guidelines w.r.t SwoDP tool including governing (approve or reject) project related time entries and expenses on weekly basis, and proactively before the monthly cut-off timelines

Complete revenue recognition activity (Month End Closing) for all assigned project on the specific date as per the guidelines

Set and ensure achievement of bi-annual goals w.r.t Performance, Development and Organization

Relevant Experience:

Total experience not more than 10 years, preferably from a large service organization (ability to manage internal as well as external resources with a team size of atleast 7) implementing complex IT solutions

5-7 years experience in core Project Management role and holding a PMP/Prince 2 Practitioner certification.

Implemented projects in Data-AI and/or cloud computing technologies or cloud services viz. Azure or AWS.

Candidates with technical certifications preferred- AWS Certified AI Practitioner, AWS cloud practitioner Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, M365 Fundamentals, Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, etc

Candidates should have created detailed project plans in MPP and tracked the progress of the project by updating the project plan in MPP on a regular basis