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Program Manager - Operations

AT Wipro
Wipro

Program Manager - Operations

Bangalore, India

Introduction

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Overview:The purpose of this role is to facilitate the successful delivery of critical projects within the FM organization by mitigating all the business, operational, contractual, technology and people risks before the start of the project delivery to achievable business objectives

Key Responsibilities:

1. Delivery Management

Ensure seamless delivery of the identified projects
  • Deploy optimum project delivery structure by evaluating the budget, costs, risks and staffing requirement
  • Create periodic project charter with well-defined weekly project trajectory as per the project specifications & requirements and ensure 100% adherence in terms of schedule, quality, efforts and costs
  • Ensure 100% compliance to Project SLA's, information security protocols and etc
  • Liaise between vendor (where applicable) and internal team to drive project health by adhering to organizational norms of project metrics
Delivery governance across the project
  • Create weekly/ monthly/ quarterly MIS and reports to monitor and track overall project
  • Conduct periodic reviews with the regional team on operational, quality and fulfillment parameters and new idea generation & its implementation on existing projects
  • Identify and resolve potential risks or early warning signs on project delivery to drive for ZERO surprise escalations and eliminate any delays.
  • Provide inputs to leadership team on overall delivery performance parameters (project heath, utilization, realization etc) at project/ program level during reviews highlighting any critical project escalations and potential risks
2. Operational Excellence

Automation Focus
  • Perform pareto analysis as per the no. of incidents received and accordngly identify automation opportunities and drive value adds across the project
  • Interact and engage with tools team to bring in new tools in the project to automate certain pointers/elimnate of any noice in the project
Innovation Focus
  • Brainstorm with the team to identify improvement opportunities and initiatives to further improve quality, delivery speed and productivity parameters
  • Plan and conduct periodic idea campaigns to generate new solutions to the problems/ define better ways of working
Drive and deploy Knowledge Management and sharing
  • Contribute in internal knowledge sharing initiatives at Wipro by driving internal training sessions, best practices, learnings, value adds and deploys best practices in various projects within the function
3. Vendor Management and governance

4. Data Collation & MIS
  • Collate the Masterfile data from all the regional and functional heads by 5th of every month and share inputs with Regional Heads.
  • Keep the leadership deck and essential information handy for monthly review with Global ops head, CHRO and quarterly review with Chairman along with the highlights and previous review MoM
  • Contribute in all the cross functional reviews to share the relevant updates/progress
  • Responsible for providing a key interface between FMG Functions and other internal functions (BiTS, BRE, CPO, Legal, Finance, Audits and other Business units) on a day-to-day basis to support Global Ops function
  • Work with Intl Regional teams, India Workspace, BiTS, CPO and BRE to maintain modernized plan book
5. Admnistrative: Jobs as assigned by the Head of FMG & CMF

Stakeholder Interaction:

Stakeholder Type

Stakeholder Identification

Purpose of Interaction

Internal

DM/ Program Manager

Delivery strategy and governance

Transition team

To ensure smooth project handover to the delivery team

BU Quality Team/ Central Quality Team

To deploy central quality policy and framework

Legal and Compliance

For compliance management and statutory guidelines

Internal audit team

Coordinaion and governance of audits that happen in FMG & CMF functions

HR

To drive HR engagement activities and resolve people related issues

Finance team (BU/ SL)

MIS, data analytics and profitability management

Procurement team

For contract management (MSA and SOW), operational coordination

BiTS team

To fulfil logistics requirement

FMG & CMF team

Program management coordination

External

Customers

To drive business growth and relationship management

Vendors/ Partners/ OEM's/ Contract Manufacturers

For resourcing/ contracting, trainings, technology platforms, equipments et

Qualifications:

Functional Competencies/ Skill
  • Domain/Industry Knowledge - Awareness and knowledge of broad economic, demographic, technological and global trends
  • Systems Thinking - Understanding of the Wipro system (interrelatedness, interdependencies and boundaries) and perform problem solving in a complex environment
  • Leveraging Technology - Knowledge of current and upcoming technology (automation, tools and systems) to build efficiencies and effectiveness in own function
  • Program Management - Execute projects with end-outcome and process focus, along with understanding of delivery processes and its governance
  • Solution Focus - Apply design thinking to bring about new and novel solutions or changes in processes, products or the way business is conducted
  • Technical knowledge - knowledge of new upcoming skills in the market as per the future trends and bring in to Wipro for its deployment/ training the team
Behavioral Competencies
  • Client centricity
  • Problem solving and decision making
  • Execution excellence and passion for results
  • Change agility
  • Passion for results
  • Nurturing people
  • Executive presence
  • Collaborative working

"Wipro is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes all employment and employment-related decisions without regard to a person's race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law"

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Client-provided location(s): Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job ID: Wipro-3106474
Employment Type: Full Time