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 client's and the organization's 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