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Manager - Projects
8-20 years
₹ 19.9 - 27L/yr (AmbitionBox estimate)
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Hyderabad / Secunderabad
1 vacancy
Manager - Projects
Cognizant
posted 1mon ago
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Job Description
Lead Product Consultant
Qualification :
Science / Engineering graduate Responsibility :
Pre sales :
- Participate in the pre sales stage (eg preparation of marketing materials and collaterals client calls demos) proposals and business development activities to ensure technical feasibility.
- Create solutions based on the customer needs and review estimates to prepare for RFIs and RFPs.
- Seek opportunities in mining the relationship to provide lasting value to the customer and share the same with the account team.
Product Consulting :
- Work with the client technical team understand the eco system.
- Analyze customer requirements challenges from an IT and business process perspective by interacting with the customer architects / SMEs and reviewing documentation.
- Provide recommendations (eg product implementation platform identification architecture suitability gap analysis customization/bolt on development and integration product maintenance) to address the same.
- Create the solution architecture.
- Present the benefits of the solution.
- Lead Proof of Concept for the business problem.
- Provide inputs on technical robustness and scalability of the product to the LPC.
Design & Implementation :
- Provide guidance to the team from a product perspective and suggest solutions.
- Participate and provide inputs in design and architecture reviews.
- Identify issues & drive them to closure.
- Handle delivery with minimum escalations.
- Review all deliverables as per the delivery checklist.
- Conduct demos for customers as and when required.
Innovation :
- Identify best practices share and ensure adoption of best practices (eg architectural artifacts interface tools etc) by the team.
- Collate centralize & institutionalize all solution enablers developed by individual projects.
Capability Building :
- Prepare summary & detailed case study for the project.
Project Management :
- Interact with customers to identify customer expectations and ensure all customer issues are resolved appropriately.
- Prepare estimation guidelines.
- Review estimates and impact analysis etcas prepared by the Senior Product Specialist.
- Understand the complexity of the projects identify and involve the right mix of resources.
- Identify the tracks / modules and allocate the same to Senior Product Specialists.
- Identify the various stakeholders.
- Identify the dependencies and manage the same.
- Oversee offshore onsite coordination to ensure transition of information (handshake) and query resolution related to project execution and report updates.
- Prepare and track project plan.
- Perform key project management activities like planning work allocation and tracking end to end delivery day to day interaction with onsite status reporting performance reporting quality assurance activities etc.
- Maintain documentation (eg defect prevention checklist metrics etc).
- Collate status report and present the same to the customer.
- Work with the various track leads to ensure delivery.
- discuss and resolve feasibility issues with the customer.
- Coordinate with the SQAG (quality team) to meet project/process compliance.
- Review out of scope requirements with respect to development and client as brought up through internal project review sessions.
- Review all change requests to ensure that processes are adhered to.
- Identify the impact of the same.
- Share and negotiate with the customer on effort timelines and cost.
- Review billing data and raise invoices.
Knowledge Management :
- Follow up with team members to ensure updating of all relevant documents in Knowledge Management post completion of each project/module.
People Management :
- Analyze team s capabilities (SWOT) and allocate work efficiently.
- Resolve conflicts within team members.
- Support team building activities Provide administrative support.
- Provide inputs on goal setting and performance appraisals of team.
- Identify skill gaps and training needs required.
- Provide input into the learning and career plans for team members.
- Identify training needs of team members and provide coaching support to them.
- Mentor team.
- Nominate team for awards.
- Conduct training through academy and induction of new team members.
Must Have Skills
- Mendix
Good To Have Skills
- PLM Manual Testing
- PLM Automated Testing
- PLM Functional Knowledge
- PLM Data Migration
- Dynamics AX
- AWS
- Migration tool
- Azure
- Teamcenter
The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Cognizant is a global community with more than 350,000 associates around the world.
- We don t just dream of a better way - we make it happen.
- We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what s right.
- We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that s right for you.
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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