ERP Project Manager (Night Shift)

Job Requirements:

• Between 10-15 years of total years experience with majority of which as a Project Manager
• Candidate must have worked on implementation of NetSuite OR similar ERP related product
• Proven leadership, client management, and stakeholder management
• Must be willing to travel local or overseas as needed
• Must be willing to work on a fixed night shift schedule M-F 6pm-3am
• Open to hire in Bangalore OR Hyderabad

Job Overview:

Accountable for the management of large and/or multiple small offshore delivery projects, with responsibility of ensuring that the Global Delivery Center meet all requirements in the delivery of a quality application to the Customer within agreed time and cost plans

Project Planning

• Work with the Regional PM to create a budget and project plan for the Technical Design, Development, Testing, and Support effort. Builds realistic time estimates, work plans and schedules that reflect budget, projectachievementss and staffing mix.
• Structures projects/activities to enable reasonable workload and work/life balance
• Plan and implement all actions required to deploy the application, both technically and functionally

Project Management

• Be responsible for and manage day-to-day activities of an offshore project team or multiple offshore project teams
• Coordinate with the Portfolio Manager to ensure that project team members are shared across projects when appropriate
• Ensure that changes in scope or schedule are justified, covered financially and agreed to by appropriate decision makers
• Monitor key project metrics such as billable utilization, defect statistics, actuals vs estimates variances.
• Support Portfolio Manager in project blocking issues

Quality Management

• Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance
• Assure that the team addresses all relevant issues within the specifications and various standards
• Ensure that processes are in place to deliver high quality service
• Risk and Issue Management
• Anticipate, report, and address potential issues to minimize project impact
• Track and report on project risks with corresponding contingencies and priorities

Project Communications

• Communicate team status, task accomplishment, and direction to regional project managers, portfolio managers, and practice managers
• Coordinates meetings with the Customer, Regional PM, Offshore leaders and/or and Portfolio managers to discuss project impediments, needed resources or issues/delays in completing the task
• Provide status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule
• Keep the Project Key Stakeholders advised of task accomplishment, issues and status
• Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve interface and integration issues with other teams
• Advance issues which cannot be resolved by the team
• Provide guidance to the team based on management direction

Staff Management

• Coach and mentor team members
• Manage staff performance to obtain desired performance level
• Provide performance feedback during appraisal period
• Share responsibility in promoting learning and transfer of knowledge within the organization.