Project Manager

Role description

Owns and manages project-specific delivery; responsible for day-to-day resource management and project SoW execution ensuring delivery & cost excellence

Key responsibilities

Drive delivery execution and delivery excellence in adherence to SLAs

• Primary owner for delivery execution & management: deliver to project SLAs & contractual requirements, project reviews, resource planning, budget and SLA management

• Track employee motivation and CSAT scores; maintain healthy work environment on projects to keep employee attrition in check

• Provide technical oversight for project & day-to-day problem resolution; Carry out day-to-day resource management- assignment of tasks, staffing, release and training

• Ensuring operational delivery excellence; drive process maturity through adoption of best practices shared by assurance team

• Ensure operational metrics for project are aligned to planned margins: execute project in-line with planned utilization, shoring and pyramid ratios

• Proactively share inputs with ADMs & Horizontal heads on project-specific issues on resource requirements, underperformance or scope

• Conduct periodic reviews and performance evaluation of project resources and drive improvement through regular feedback; ensure timely validation and approval of timesheets

   

  Lead governance activities for own project & support ADMs in account-level governance

• Track and monitor project specific KPIs and report the same in prescribed format; share inputs with ADMs to support account-level tracking

• Forecast resource cost on existing projects and share inputs with ADMs

• Support ADMs in identification of margin improvement initiatives; driving implementation

• Coordinate with Solutioning team for technical / understanding on solution deployed in the project

• Onboard resources, assign roles & responsibilities and assess trainings needs; create project-specific delivery plan in line with overall project plan

• Coordinate account governance activities with ADMs and provide inputs to finance on invoicing, WIP revenue, validate accuracy for project cost loaded in the P&L

   

  Drive customer satisfaction by supporting ADM establish strong connect with key client stakeholders

• Support frequent communication & periodic check-ins with client to build relationship

• Support ADM/AM/Horizontal Head in technical query & escalation resolution

Key Interfaces

• Coordinate regularly with ADMs for overall account/project governance covering delivery

  execution, development of project plan, implementation of margin initiatives, client

  engagement and resourcing decisions

• Collaborate with, and share inputs on growth & innovation investment agenda with

  Horizontal Head; Horizontal Head/GSO to lead and put forth to investment committee

• Work with ADMs to identify & pursue growth opportunities in the account

• Collaborate with Delivery Assurance & Quality Mgmt. teams to ensure delivery excellence,

  and/or productivity initiatives are incorporated into the delivery model

• Work with Finance on financial reporting and customer billing

   

   

  Key Metrics

   

  KPIs

• Utilization %

• Client satisfaction (CSAT)

• Attrition %

• Project overruns (% and #)

   

  KRAs

• Delivery efficiency metrics (Span of

  control, Pyramid, Shoring)

• Delivery Quality scores (#Red projects,

  SLA compliance, COQ, COPQ)