Aelum Consulting - Senior Project Manager

About the job:

Experience: 10+ Years

Location: Jaipur/ Noida

Employment Type: Hybrid

Domain Exposure: Enterprise Applications | SaaS | PaaS

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to take ownership of complex, business-critical projects. The role requires strong accountability and sound judgment, with the ability to stabilize delivery in challenging environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own end-to-end project delivery including scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk

- Take charge of projects facing schedule or budget challenges and drive recovery

- Make timely decisions in ambiguous situations and own outcomes

- Manage senior stakeholders and challenging client situations professionally

- Control scope through structured change management

- Own project budgets, forecasts, and financial health

- Communicate risks, issues, and difficult messages clearly and early to leadership

- Lead and motivate cross-functional teams under pressure

- Establish and enforce project governance and reporting discipline

- Resolve conflicting stakeholder priorities with clear trade-offs and recommendations

Required Experience & Skills:

- 10+ years of overall experience with significant ownership as a Senior Project Manager

- Proven experience handling complex and high-priority projects

- Strong documentation skills (BRD, FRD/FSD, project plans)

- Excellent presentation, negotiation, and leadership skills

- Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Excel, and PowerPoint

- Experience delivering Enterprise platforms, SaaS, and PaaS solutions

- Strong commercial and financial awareness

- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience managing multi-vendor or multi-location teams

- Exposure to CXO-level stakeholders or steering committees

- PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certification (preferred, not mandatory)

What Success Looks Like:

- On-time delivery with high customer satisfaction

- Predictable execution supported by strong governance and transparency

- Improved delivery discipline and measurable business outcomes