Manager - Project Management

Job Description

12-15 years of experience in the IT industry in delivery roles; 4+ years on experience in program or LoB management with large, geographically distributed teams (onshore and offshore).

Financial Service background must have .

• 4+ 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.
• Prior experience of managing delivery engagements with quality frameworks such as CMMI.
• 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-managedand client managed).
• Prior experience in managing demanding senior stakeholders with customers based in US and of Asia origin.
• Must be consultative and solutions’ oriented; prior experience of structuring or defining solutions oriented delivery engagements and troubleshooting critical delivery issues.
• 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.
• Strong outcomes focused leadership skills with strong people focus.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change and continuous improvement journeys across delivery excellence and margin improvement.
• Prior experience of managing leads / PMs in a matrix organization.
• Flexibility to need based, short term overseas travel.
• Delivery background of technology complex projects especially in migrations and data practice.

Mandatory Competencies