Iris Software - Senior Program Manager

Roles and Responsibilities : -

• Experience in the IT industry in delivery roles.
• 5+ years on experience in program or LoB management with large, geographically distributed teams (onshore and offshore).
• Financial Service background must have.
• 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.
• Experience across service offerings (e. 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).
• 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. large proposals and sales pitches) and mining accounts / farming for opportunities in existing customer businesses.
• Prior experience of managing leads / PMs in a matrix organization.
• Flexibility to need based, short term overseas travel.

(ref : iimjobs.com)