Title:  Contractor

Area(s) of responsibility

About the Company
Empowered By Innovation
Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company’s consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group’s 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.

Program Manager
Germany
JD 
• Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget
 • Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis
 • Liaise with resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule 
• Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule 
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation 
• Review and approve time cards associated with your project 
• Create business case financial models 
• Forecast, monitor and report on project financials, and maintain financials in project management tools 
• Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; and communicate with key stakeholders
 • Liaise with the supplier management groups as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience and cost 
• Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards 
• Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports 
• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums 
• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case
 • Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value 
• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria 
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company 
• Assist, share learning, and mentor others within the PMO regarding standards, organizational understanding, and relationship building to promote the successful delivery of projects
Qualifications & Experience
•    Minimum 7 years of professional experience is required 
 •    Proven record of planning and delivering complex projects 
•    Experience managing remote project teams desired  
 •    Experience and proficiency in Microsoft Project preferred 
•    Demonstrated experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/ development/ implementation projects and IT methodologies (ITIL) •    Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions; demonstrated experience managing customer relationships
Soft Skills
•    Good Communication Skills •    Leadership Skills