Senior Assistant Vice President

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute enterprise-level digital transformation strategies centered on Generative AI (Gen AI), automation, and cloud technologies to drive innovation and business value.
• Transformation Execution: Lead complex transformation programs across business units, ensuring delivery of scalable AI solutions that improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and decision-making.
• Project Oversight: Manage a team of 4-5 Project Managers alongside multiple high-impact AI initiatives simultaneously, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and on budget. Provide governance and oversight on Agile and hybrid project methodologies.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with senior business stakeholders, Clients, technology leaders, and product owners to shape AI adoption strategies and ensure solutions align with business goals.
• Change Management: Act as a change agent to drive the adoption of Gen AI across teams. Champion digital culture shifts, enable business readiness, and address change resistance effectively.
• AI/ML Oversight: Guide the architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring of AI models and ML workflows, ensuring performance, fairness, and compliance.
• Platform & Tool Leadership: Direct use of tools/platforms such as ServiceNow, Appian, JIRA, AWS, and other low-code/no-code and cloud technologies in delivery initiatives.
• Innovation Culture: Promote an innovation-driven environment through regular experimentation, pilots, and training around emerging AI/Gen AI technologies.
• Risk & Compliance Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery, operational, and technical risks. Ensure compliance with internal standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Vendor & Partner Management: Evaluate and manage third-party vendors, negotiate service contracts, and ensure partner accountability on deliverables.
• Budget & Resource Management: Develop, track, and manage program budgets, resource allocation, and capacity planning for current and upcoming projects.
• Performance Reporting: Establish metrics and KPIs to measure success. Deliver strategic reporting and executive summaries to High-level stakeholders.

• Deep understanding of Gen AI technologies, including advanced AI deployment workflows, ML model lifecycle, and data pipeline optimization to drive strategic AI adoption at an enterprise scale.
• Strong background in leading digital transformation initiatives, leveraging tools such as JIRA, MS Project, Confluence, and other advanced project management platforms to streamline collaboration, reporting, and cross-functional alignment.
• Extensive experience with RPA tools, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and enterprise automation frameworks, driving significant business outcomes through automation at scale.
• Proven expertise in architecting and guiding AI/ML model implementations, data flow optimizations, and model evaluation strategies to ensure high-quality and reliable AI outcomes.
• Strong strategic oversight in process design, quality assurance, and traceability management in large-scale software development lifecycles, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory compliance.
• Expertise in leading the full project lifecycle management, from strategic initiation to successful deployment and ongoing optimization, ensuring alignment with organizational transformation goals.
• Ability to manage large, complex portfolios of AI-driven projects, overseeing cross-functional teams, multi-geography delivery models, and driving innovation to achieve high-impact results.
• Extensive experience in both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and Waterfall methodologies, with proficiency in hybrid delivery models tailored to complex enterprise transformations.
• Demonstrated excellence in project planning, resource management, and budget allocation, ensuring the effective use of resources to deliver projects on time, within scope, and under budget.
• Expertise in risk assessment and mitigation, managing project scope, timeline adjustments, and resource allocation in alignment with business constraints and evolving stakeholder needs.
• Proven track record in stakeholder management, including senior leadership and client engagement, ensuring transparency, issue resolution, and alignment with business objectives.
• Strong leadership in executive reporting, crafting insightful and impactful status reports, project summaries, and strategic updates for C-suite executives and client leadership teams.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders, clients, and cross-functional teams toward common business objectives.
• Strong leadership capabilities, fostering high-performance teams, driving collaboration, and motivating diverse groups to achieve transformation goals.
• Advanced strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data, manage risks, and make informed decisions to guide project success.
• Proven expertise in stakeholder management, effectively negotiating, resolving conflicts, and ensuring alignment between business needs and project execution.

• Graduate
• PMP/Prince certification is Mandatory

• Minimum 8-10 years of relevant experience as a Project Manager. Ideal 12-15 years’ experience in IT.
• Proven experience managing at least 5 projects in parallel.
• At least 5 projects were managed using Agile methodology as a Scrum Master.
• At least 5 projects were managed in a Waterfall environment as a Project Manager.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a project end-to-end from initiation to closure.
• Experience in consulting or client-facing environments, with a focus on managing client expectations and requirements.

• Experience with low code implementations or any business systems implementations.
• •Relevant certifications such as PMI, Prince2, SAFe, etc

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