Contract Project Manager (Offshore India)

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Qellus is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager based in India to lead client-facing OpenText and enterprise technology projects from initiation through deployment and closure.

This is a hands-on delivery leadership role not a project coordinator position. The successful candidate must be a strong communicator who can lead client meetings drive decisions manage difficult conversations and hold internal teams clients and vendors accountable for commitments.

Most Qellus clients are based in North America so regular overlap with North American business hours is required. Occasional support for clients in other global regions may also be needed.

Engagement Details:

• Employment type: Temporary contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Work Schedule: Part-time at 3 hours per week Monday through Friday from 8am - 12 Noon US Central Time (with flexibility based on customer requirements)
• Work Location: India Remote
• Anticipated Start Date: ASAP
• There is potential for assignment with additional customers

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of OpenText ECM ERP integration upgrade migration and digital transformation projects.
• Own project scope schedule budget quality risks dependencies and client satisfaction.
• Develop and maintain project plans schedules resource plans financial forecasts and governance documentation.
• Lead client status meetings workshops governance calls and steering committee meetings.
• Drive clear decisions actions owners deadlines approvals and sign-offs.
• Hold project team members clients and third-party vendors accountable for agreed commitments.
• Manage risks issues assumptions dependencies decisions and escalations through a current RAID log.
• Identify delivery concerns early and develop corrective or recovery plans when projects are at risk.
• Manage scope changes and ensure out-of-scope requests are handled through formal change control.
• Track budgets effort utilization billing milestones revenue and project profitability.
• Manage delivery against statements of work contractual obligations assumptions and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate architects consultants developers and client resources.
• Manage multiple concurrent client projects across distributed teams and time zones.
• Coordinate testing cutover planning production readiness go/no-go decisions deployment hypercare and transition to support.
• Prepare clear executive-level project status reports financial updates risk summaries and steering committee materials.
• Ensure project documentation and deliverables are reviewed approved and stored appropriately.
• Support Account Managers with client relationships renewals project expansions and reference opportunities.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Preferred Qualifications

• 810 years of IT project or program management experience.
• Experience working in a client-facing consulting systems integration or professional services environment.
• Proven experience managing complex enterprise technology implementations upgrades migrations integrations or transformation projects.
• Strong project planning financial management risk management change control and governance experience.
• Experience managing fixed-price time-and-materials or milestone-based engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead client meetings and communicate confidently with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Ability to hold clients team members and vendors accountable for deadlines actions approvals and deliverables.
• Experience leading offshore distributed or global delivery teams.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project Project Plan 365 Jira Azure DevOps Smartsheet Planview BigTime Microsoft Teams or SharePoint.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Availability to regularly support meetings during North American business hours.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing OpenText implementations upgrades migrations integrations cloud deployments or support transitions.
• Experience with OpenText Content Management Extended ECM Archive Center or related products.
• Experience managing OpenText integrations with SAP Microsoft Salesforce ERP or other enterprise platforms.
• Experience with enterprise content management document management workflow automation archival or content migration projects.
• PMP PgMP PRINCE2 Scrum Master SAFe Agile or similar project management certification or working towards certification.
• Experience recovering delayed over-budget or at-risk projects.
• Experience working with global clients and project team members.

Leadership ExpectationsThe successful candidate must be able to:

• Lead the room and keep meetings focused on decisions and outcomes.
• Address missed commitments and delivery concerns directly and professionally.
• Challenge unrealistic timelines incomplete requirements and unsupported assumptions.
• Escalate issues early with clear options and recommendations.
• Communicate technical issues in clear business terms.
• Work independently and proactively drive projects forward.

Benefits

Benefits are not available for this position.

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Contract
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1