Senior Project Manager, Sak

Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager who supports the South Asia + Korea Consulting Delivery team is responsible for providing pre-sales support, planning, scheduling, monitoring and directing projects on agreed client requirements and expected Teradata business results. The Project Manager will lead a single project or portfolio of projects depending upon size and complexity. The Project Manager manages Teradata employees and third-party contractors to ensure projects meet established time, cost, technical and quality objectives. The Project Manager owns projects beginning in the pre-contract sales process and will manage them through complete closeout.

**Key Areas of Responsibilities**:
Lead a Teradata consulting project or a collection of multiple projects
Responsible for end-to-end engagement from inception to closure, ensuring that the right software development approach is followed.

Identify and bring together a variety of technologies to deliver a complete information system that supports operational and management objectives. Define the client’s requirements within the context of their business and assess the opportunities, benefits, risks and success factors of a potential solution.
Participate in scoping, planning, cost estimating, pricing of consulting projects, statement of work development and risk assessment, including but not limited to defining goals and objectives, identifying and documenting client requirements, resource requirements, project budget, project risks, and the translation of the client’s business requirements into specific deliverables.
Ensure projects are completed on time, quality and within budget on client expectations
Be responsible for and manage the budget/cost (P&L)
Identify and manage change requests (CRs) in the projects, especially for those CRs that have commercial impacts. Ensure these Change Requests are raised to the appropriate change board for decisions.
Manage and foster relationships amongst stakeholders by building confidence and trust with clear professional communications and assured expectation management.
Manage client acceptance of the solution in line with the agreed business outcomes.
Maintain and communicate project status to all internal and external stakeholders
Build a project team, including Teradata employees, offshore team, and contractors.
Ensure proper set-up of the engagement in the timekeeping system, ensuring consultants and contractors are always current with their reported time.
Manages and/or produces project financial and status reports for the engagement
Ensure that Teradata knowledge resources and tools are fully leveraged
Lead project/engagement close-out debriefings to identify lessons learned and best practices.
Responsible for preparation and compliance with internal controls and documents including participation in periodic reviews and audits as mandated by internal and client stakeholders.
Manage and coach a team of Junior Project Managers to manage a portfolio of small and medium size projects across the region and provide consolidated project status reports to Project Management Office

**Education and Experience**:
Proven experience record of more than 15 years demonstrating the ability to manage successful project deliveries including strategic planning, budget/cost management (P&L), risk management and change management.
Proven experience in successful delivery and project management of large and complex regional or global projects with a total contract value of more than USD 2 million in consulting services with internal and external stakeholder management
Experience in managing relationships at C level -1 and conducting Steering Committees for complex projects with the participation of senior management executives
At least 2 years of experience in managing Data warehouse, Business intelligence, Cloud Migration, Application and Analytics projects.

Good understanding of CMMi and ITIL frameworks.
Proven experience in managing large multi-national, multi-cultural teams across geographies on projects
Solid understanding of agile and DevOps, preferably in data analytics area.
Experience as a client-facing/onsite project manager.
At least one of the certifications for PMP, Agile, Six sigma, Prince2
Working industry knowledge will be a plus, viz. Telecommunication/Financial Services Industry/Aviation/ Manufacturing/Retail

**Interpersonal/Professional Skills**:
Virtual team and customer management

Customer centric with an ability to work in large teams consisting of consultants, third-party vendors and client team members that are distributed in multiple locations in regional delivery centres.
Task-oriented and solution-driven with a focus on deliverables, quality, cost and timelines
Emotional intelligence and enjoy working with people.
Organized and detail-oriented
Proactive, Innovative with an analytical mindset
Able to work under pressure in a challenging environment
Ability to work within multiple time