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Senior Project Manager

Microsoft· Consulting Project Management
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Hybrid (Hyderabad), Hybrid (Bangalore), Hybrid (Noida)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Project Manager responsible for end-to-end delivery management of Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) engagements, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, closure, client relationship management, IP usage, and driving business growth and cloud/AI consumption.

Responsibilities

  • Drives and maintains obligations to customer across the delivery lifecycle including envisioning, solution development, delivery planning, cloud consumption and usage, delivery management.
  • Leads or participates in steering committee meetings with strategic customers to discuss progress toward delivery success.
  • Contributes to consumption activities by identifying blockers to consumption goals and enabling customers to get full value of their purchases.
  • Holds accountability for project delivery forecast.
  • Collaborates with Sales to support contract setup, signature, compliance, and execution from deal approvals to invoicing and closure.
  • Manages areas of fiscal responsibility within project portfolio, staying within budget while driving engagement profitability and risk management.
  • Supports relationships with key stakeholders in the customer portfolio to ensure service delivery is on track and issues are anticipated, identified, and managed.
  • Researches and proactively shares IP and provides recommendations for improvement including submitting new IP.
  • Engages with customer stakeholders to develop partnerships and manages escalations to resolution.
  • Drives customer satisfaction by engaging with stakeholders and acting as the voice of the customer.
  • Adheres to project compliance standards and accommodates customer compliance requirements, including confidentiality.
  • Drives project initiation for medium complexity projects and coordinates resources across onshore/offshore teams.
  • Facilitates contracting processes for customer and partner resources and assists in structuring fixed-fee subcontractor contracts.
  • Contributes to pre-sales for medium-impact projects, developing SOWs, WBSs, estimates, and risk assessments.
  • Develops detailed project management plans and ensures baselining, resource load balancing and schedule alignment with customer plans.
  • Establishes clear expectations and accountabilities, leads kickoff meetings, and engages diverse stakeholders in planning.
  • Oversees project metrics and KPIs, manages risks and issues, ensures timely deliverables and quality, and manages change control processes.
  • Manages finances for mid-size to large projects, balancing funds and resources to reduce cost and improve delivery margin.
  • Maintains stakeholder communications on project health, issues, financial performance, and deliverables.
  • Drives timely project closure, captures lessons learned, and contributes to IP improvements.
  • Looks for opportunities to accelerate cloud consumption and drives next-step opportunities with customers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent experience
  • MBA preferred
  • 10+ years of experience in complex project/program delivery
  • 5+ years leading large-scale enterprise transformation programs
  • Proven success delivering Cloud and AI-centric programs (Azure, Data, Security, Application Modernization)
  • Strong financial and commercial management experience (forecasting, margins, change control)
  • Executive-level communication and stakeholder management capability

Skills

Required:Project managementStakeholder managementLeadership
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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