Senior Program Manager

Roles and Responsibilities :-

• Experience in the IT industry in delivery roles;
• 5+ years on experience in program or LoB management with large, geographically distributed teams (onshore and offshore).

  Financial Service background must have

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• 5+ years of strong business domain knowledge in the

  financial services

  domain (preferably capital markets/ investment banking), with an IT consulting/ services firm.
• Experience of setting up medium size delivery teams (25+ people) organized across one or more projects/ work streams.
• Project or Program management experience across the full SDLC lifecycle involving different methodologies like agile, iterative, waterfall and hybrid.
• Experience across service offerings (e.g. application development, maintenance, re[1]engineering, migration, etc.), different pricing models (fixed price, fixed capacity, time and material, client manage etc.) and engagement models (partner/ vendor managed, co-managed and client managed).
• Strong commercial acumen with high proficiency in effort/ cost estimation.
• Very strong business communication, negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Strong knowledge of project financials and IT services contracts.
• Hands on delivery leadership experience on complex/ high risk projects.
• Experience of driving pre-sales effort as the bid manager (i.e. large proposals and sales pitches) and mining accounts/ farming for opportunities in existing customer businesses.
• Prior experience of managing leads / PMs in a matrix organization. Flexibility to need based, short term overseas travel.