Contract: Project Manager (Offshore - India)

Application Deadline: 31 July 2026

Department: PMO

Employment Type: Contract

Location: India Remote

Reporting To: PMO Manager

Description

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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