Contract: Project Manager (Offshore - India)

Qellus

1d•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

8–10+ 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.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.