Manager - Projects
Cognizant
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure management reports are circulated to the relevant stakeholders as per agreed timelines.
- Act as the Single Point of Contact for Delivery for the project.
- Responsible for End to End Service Delivery for the portfolio / LOB being managed.
- Devise Corrective and Preventive actions for any Service Level breaches, near misses and Customer escalations.
- Integrates Service Management Office into the service delivery to effectively leverage their specialist capabilities (eg Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management etc).
- Manage defined processes and risks with respect to organization and customer.
- Coordinate with onsite and offshore teams as necessary during project delivery.
- Ensure service performance of the portfolio through defined metrics and KPI's.
- Participate in PMR and Service performance review meeting and ensure availability of all relevant performance data.
- Ensure that status reports & dashboards are sent to the customer for the project(s) at the agreed intervals.
- Coordinate and test Service Continuity plan on a periodic basis.
- Resolving all customer requests, issues / escalations in a timely manner.
- Liaise with Academy for project level training needs and ensure training plans are made available based on skillset needs.
- Drive performance management process (goal setting, appraisals and promotions) for the project (Portfolio / LOB).
- Responsible for onboarding new hires.
- Manage conflicts within the team and organize team building exercises.
- Enable periodic skill assessment of associates and subsequent adherence to learning plans.
- Initiate (Performance Improvement Plan) PIP in case of nonperformance.
- Continuously mentor and have succession plan for all key roles.
- Responsible for forecasting and managing staffing requirements for the portfolio.
- Adhere to Organization policies and procedures.
- Participate in Customer round table discussions/floor visits and share project experience.
- Share best practices with the Organization and leverage Organization assets for the benefit of the project.
- Adopt and implement organization initiatives like 'Best in Class', Pinnacle, Innovation programs etc.
- Adopt and replicate best practices from other engagements in SBU and organization.
- Participate in Customer review / governance meetings to discuss on Service performance, project issues and improvement opportunities.
- Participate and provide inputs during Solution development activities Build relationships with line managers or portfolio owners in the customer organization.
- Coordinate and ensure preparedness for the Customer visits.
- Anticipate issues and needs of the customer related to the project and address them proactively.
- thereby help achieve CSS targets.
- Ensure workenvironment availability (infrastructure, relevant software, access etc) to the project resources.
- Establishes the key calendar of events for the project / LOB.
- Initiate and drives Continual Service Improvement program.
- Participate in audits and track action items to closure.
- Responsible for billing and invoicing for the portfolio being managed.
- Salesforce Integration
- Salesforce Configuration
- SFDC Dev & Customization
- ANSI SQL
- Core Java