SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER - INDIA

Location: Vijayawada, India

Department: Professional Services

Experience: 12

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large HR or ERP transformation initiatives across multiple geographies.
• Create and manage project plans, staffing models, risk registers, schedules, and financial forecasts.
• Ensure delivery milestones, quality standards, and contract commitments are met.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for executive sponsors and business leaders.
• Prepare and deliver structured Project Board reports, executive presentations, and programme status packs to senior client and internal leadership, ensuring clear articulation of progress, risks, decisions required, and strategic outlook.
• Own the Project Board cycle end-to-end: agenda setting, pack preparation, facilitation, minute-taking, and action tracking through to resolution.
• Facilitate governance meetings, steering committees, and program reviews.
• Communicate project status, risks, decisions, and dependencies with clarity and transparency.
• Manage global delivery teams, including onshore, offshore, and nearshore resources.
• Allocate workstreams, define roles, and ensure alignment across functional, technical, and QA teams.
• Foster collaboration, resolve conflicts, and maintain cohesive delivery across time zones.
• Lead HR or ERP workstreams, including Core HR, Payroll, Compensation, Learning, Talent, Recruiting, Finance, SCM, or other functional domains, depending on project scope.
• Ensure adherence to implementation methodologies, governance frameworks, and quality standards.
• Oversee functional design, configuration, integration coordination, testing cycles, and cutover activities.
• Identify project risks early and drive mitigation strategies.
• Manage scope changes, impact assessments, and change approvals.
• Ensure documentation, compliance, and audit readiness for all project activities.
• Lead go-live readiness assessments and cutover planning.
• Support hyper care, production stabilization, and handoff to support/operations teams.
• Evaluate lessons learned and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Human Resources, or a related field.
• 12+ years of project management experience, including at least 6 years managing enterprise HR or ERP transformation programmes at senior level.
• Direct experience delivering implementations in HRIS (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, Cornerstone, UKG) or ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, Odoo, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics).
• Strong understanding of HR or ERP processes across global operations.
• Demonstrated success managing global, cross-functional teams across time zones.
• Proven experience preparing and presenting to Project Boards, steering committees, and C-suite stakeholders.
• Proficiency with project management tools and methodologies (PMP, Agile, SCRUM preferred).
• Excellent communication, leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with multi-country payroll, global HR models, or complex ERP integration landscapes.
• Background in consulting, professional services, or enterprise technology delivery.
• Experience with large data migrations, global process harmonization, and change management.
• Ability to manage multi-million-dollar project budgets and contractual responsibilities.
• Strategic planning and execution leadership, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Excellent relationship-building and client-facing communication.
• High accountability, ownership mindset, and leadership presence.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, global delivery environments, including comfort working US and/or UK client-facing shift hours.