Manager - Projects

Job Description Lead Product Consultant Qualification Science / Engineering graduate Responsibility Pre sales: - Participate in the pre sales stage (eg preparation of marketing materials and collaterals client calls demos) proposals and business development activities to ensure technical feasibility. - Create solutions based on the customer needs and review estimates to prepare for RFIs and RFPs. - Seek opportunities in mining the relationship to provide lasting value to the customer and share the same with the account team. Product Consulting - Work with the client technical team understand the eco system. - Analyze customer requirements challenges from an IT and business process perspective by interacting with the customer architects / SMEs and reviewing documentation. - Provide recommendations (eg product implementation platform identification architecture suitability gap analysis customization/bolt on development and integration product maintenance) to address the same. - Create the solution architecture. - Present the benefits of the solution. - Lead Proof of Concept for the business problem. - Provide inputs on technical robustness and scalability of the product to the LPC. Design & Implementation - Provide guidance to the team from a product perspective and suggest solutions. - Participate and provide inputs in design and architecture reviews. - Identify issues & drive them to closure. - Handle delivery with minimum escalations. - Review all deliverables as per the delivery checklist. - Conduct demos for customers as and when required. Innovation - Identify best practices share and ensure adoption of best practices (eg architectural artifacts interface tools etc) by the team. - Collate centralize & institutionalize all solution enablers developed by individual projects. Capability Building - Prepare summary & detailed case study for the project. Project Management - Interact with customers to identify customer expectations and ensure all customer issues are resolved appropriately. - Prepare estimation guidelines. - Review estimates and impact analysis etcas prepared by the Senior Product Specialist. - Understand the complexity of the projects identify and involve the right mix of resources. - Identify the tracks / modules and allocate the same to Senior Product Specialists. - Identify the various stakeholders. - Identify the dependencies and manage the same. - Oversee offshore onsite coordination to ensure transition of information (handshake) and query resolution related to project execution and report updates. - Prepare and track project plan. - Perform key project management activities like planning work allocation and tracking end to end delivery day to day interaction with onsite status reporting performance reporting quality assurance activities etc. - Maintain documentation (eg defect prevention checklist metrics etc). - Collate status report and present the same to the customer. - Work with the various track leads to ensure delivery. - discuss and resolve feasibility issues with the customer. - Coordinate with the SQAG (quality team) to meet project/process compliance. - Review out of scope requirements with respect to development and client as brought up through internal project review sessions. - Review all change requests to ensure that processes are adhered to. - Identify the impact of the same. - Share and negotiate with the customer on effort timelines and cost. - Review billing data and raise invoices. Knowledge Management - Follow up with team members to ensure updating of all relevant documents in Knowledge Management post completion of each project/module. People Management - Analyze team's capabilities (SWOT) and allocate work efficiently. - Resolve conflicts within team members. - Support team building activities Provide administrative support. - Provide inputs on goal setting and performance appraisals of team. - Identify skill gaps and training needs required. - Provide input into the learning and career plans for team members. - Identify training needs of team members and provide coaching support to them. - Mentor team. - Nominate team for awards. - Conduct training through academy and induction of new team members. Must Have Skills - Mendix Good To Have Skills - PLM Manual Testing - PLM Automated Testing - PLM Functional Knowledge - PLM Data Migration - Dynamics AX - AWS - Migration tool - Azure - Teamcenter