As a Project Director / Delivery Lead, you will act as the single point of contact for the key client on all project delivery and managed services delivery matters. You will lead a small team of Project Managers and workstream leads and be responsible for overseeing, managing and implementing multiple IT Projects with quality, within scope, ensure deliverables are on time and conform to processes and standards meeting client’s requirements.
What will you do?
Project Delivery
- Review the project lifecycle (initiation, plan, execution, completion)
- Review project schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans
- Manage issues arising out of scope definition and subsequent disputes that impacted scope, schedule and cost
- Manage issues arising from integration of various components of the project including hardware, software installation, testing, business process review, redesign, application development, migration and data conversion etc.
- Oversee the implementation of the project with regard to schedules, budget, manpower and quality
- Resolve project overrun issues with Senior Management
- Monitor and report on project management progress
- Manage resources in terms of mobilizing resources during different periods of time from team to team to maximize productivity or minimize wastage
Customer/Vendor Management
- Manage contracts and subcontractors
- Effectively engaged stakeholders in project decisions and execution
- Build long-term customer relationships by anticipating and exceeding customer’s expectation
- Negotiate with customers on change control mechanism to meet schedules and prioritize changes based on business needs
Team Management
- Provide leadership to the project team to ensure that proposals/ enhancements are fully analyzed and evaluated for benefits and cost
- Provide the project team with accurate information about business needs and priorities as well as details about business systems
- Participate in leadership activities and providing performance feedback and developmental coaching
- Monitor and improve team performance, conduct team building, providing leadership, coaching, and performance management
Beyond projects and operational delivery matters, you are also expected to:
- Develop business opportunities to solve the client’s problems.
- Ideate solutions using technology and process changes.
- Create growth opportunities by considering the feasibility and sustainability of these opportunities and the core capabilities of NCS.
- Direct the right team across different Lines of Business (LOBs) to drive revenue, quality and customer satisfaction targets and ensure delivery.
- Accountable for the delivery services of the client’s account and needs to be involved in the delivery of the programs that you are responsible for.
