Project Manager

Not Applicable

Qualification:

Science or Engineering or other relevant graduate degree or Agile certification

Responsibility:

Operational Excellence

• Establishes, executes, and oversees project's operations (ie Budget, forecasting, margin, metrics billing/invoicing, purchase orders, MSA/ SOW/ SLA compliance, etc).

• Metrics and Reporting.

• Manage the tracking/measurment and progress against established measures and metrics (eg bid vs did, SLA, and any other operational or contractual measures).

• Program Governance.

• Establish, execute and oversee a project's governance (ie stakeholder management, communication ceremonies, benefits management, change management, scope management, team work enviorment, onboarding, etc.

• Estimation and Planning.

• Establishes, executes, and oversees project delivery estimation and planning (team resource and timeline) across Cognizant organization (pursuit through sprints/PIs)\ nGrow the Business.

• Supports pursuits (and running them as a project) as required.

• Collaborates with Commercial/Account Team to grow the business by identifying and defining business value opprtunities for the client.

• Drive for Results.

• Drives optimal business value though scope management, change management, communication ceremonies, acceptance criteria, negotiation, etc.

• Execution Excelllence.

• Lead the the setup and then the daily running of a project (ie task assignment and optimization, resource schedules, planning, logistics, tracking,issues/risk management, running meetings, organizing events, status reporting, adhoc reporting, signoffs, etc).

• Client Relationship Management.

• Establishes and builds relationships with client and other stakeholders for the project.

• Managing Teams.

• Leads team by supporting and driving career growth, personal/ team development, well being, diversity and inclusion.

• provides input to HCM supervisors on performance of all direct reports on a program, irrespective of the business unit of the direct report.

• Community Development.

• Lead and personally contributes to the continous improvement of the program & project management guild and community (best practices, networking, standards, training, tools, etc).

• Compliance.

• Responsible for Project Management tool and process compliance (ie Delivery Governance Dashboard).