About the Role (Job Description):

- Managing change & transformation projects with different regional teams and developing strategies to implement these projects.

- Implement an appropriate and effective project or programme management framework, incorporating necessary review processes as required

- Define and implement criteria for control and management of the project

- Negotiate and convert contracts as required by the project

- Plans, directs, and co-ordinates the team's activities to manage and implement project and/or interrelated projects from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage.

- Determines, monitors, and reviews all project economics to include costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources, and risk.

- Leads the project team in determining requirements and translating requirements into operational plans.

- Identifies and assembles the appropriate blend of resources to meet project needs and requirements

- Plans, schedules, monitors and reports on activities related to the project.

- Develops project control and reporting procedures and manages changes in operational plan.

- Undertakes status review meetings among project team members and clients.

- Works with management on project proposals, bids, contracts, estimates, and schedules.

- Coaches and advises team members to accomplish project goals, to meet established schedules, and resolve technical/operational issues.

- Proactively influences customers to apply project-planning methodologies.

- Ensures adherence to legally binding requirements.

- Controls project requirements, scope, and change management issues.

- Establishes appropriate metrics for measuring key project criteria.

- Develops, proposes, and negotiates project proposals, quotations, and add-ons to leadership and the client.

- Analyses needs and recommends appropriate planning concepts and tools to be used for all facets of planning, scheduling, and tracking projects.

- Analyses project progress/costs and facilitate the development of recommended alternatives.

- Integrates and uses Project Management methodologies.

- Creates communication plans, ensuring that appropriate information is exchanged among key stakeholders.

- Advises senior management on Project Management capability and risk.

- Monitor daily operations and processes to identify gaps and area of improvement

- Conceptualize strategies to drive operational efficiency

- Identify leakages and drive initiatives to minimize them

- Drive process improvement initiatives to maximize productivity and revenue generation

- Creates strategy for Project Management unit in line with Organization strategy and drives it.

- Works closely with Editing, Quality, and Client Servicing teams to be in sync as to what is expected from Project Management.

- Plans and implements strategies related to deadline management of all stakeholders in the project cycle

- Ensures minimum idle time for projects and an optimum lead/lag time at all stages

- Plans and executes team training and development activities as per business and people requirement

- Responsible for team hiring decisions and performance management of team members

- Instills best practices in freelancer/vendor acquisition and management

- Responsible for maintaining high quality benchmarks in all aspects of project management within the entire team

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