Senior Manager - Project Manager @ Iris Software

5+ years of strong business domain knowledge in the financial services domain (preferably capital markets/ investment banking), with an IT consulting/ services firm.

Experience of setting up medium size delivery teams (25+ people) organized across one or more projects/ work streams.

Project or Program management experience across the full SDLC lifecycle involving different methodologies like agile, iterative, waterfall and hybrid.

Prior experience of managing delivery engagements with quality frameworks such as CMMI.

Experience across service offerings (e.g. application development, maintenance, re[1]engineering, migration, etc.), different pricing models (fixed price, fixed capacity, time and material, client manage etc.) and engagement models (partner/ vendor managed, co-managed and client managed).

Prior experience in managing demanding senior stakeholders with customers based in US and of Asia origin.

Must be consultative and solutions oriented; prior experience of structuring or defining solutions oriented delivery engagements and troubleshooting critical delivery issues.

Strong commercial acumen with high proficiency in effort/ cost estimation.

Very strong business communication, negotiation and conflict management skills.

Strong knowledge of project financials and IT services contracts.

Hands on delivery leadership experience on complex/ high risk projects.

Experience of driving pre-sales effort as the bid manager (i.e. large proposals and sales pitches) and mining accounts/ farming for opportunities in existing customer businesses.

Strong outcomes focused leadership skills with strong people focus.

Demonstrated ability to drive change and continuous improvement journeys across delivery excellence and margin improvement.

Prior experience of managing leads PMs in a matrix organization.

Flexibility to need based, short term overseas travel.

Delivery background of technology complex projects especially in migrations and data practice.