Delivery Project Manager at IBM

The Delivery Project Manager Duties And Responsibilities

• Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Delivery service planning
• Maintaining positive relationship with the customer
• Managing customer needs and overseeing delivery within the business context
• Conducting risk assessments for the project
• Coordinating teams and developing schedules and individual responsibilities
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Maintains organization’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
• Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.
• Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirement
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing deliverables; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Identifying and developing new opportunities with clients
• Obtaining customer acceptance and achieving customer satisfaction in the support of the client

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant program – additional Certifications a plus.
• Minimum 10+ years of working experience managing IT Organizations & teams.
• Professional Certification: ITIL Foundation. ITIL Practitioner shall be an added advantage
• Professional Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE 2

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• To succeed in as service delivery manager, you must be highly innovative because the job involves constant look out for ways of improving customer experience
• Must have exceptional ability to plan and implement service delivery processes. In addition, a keen eye for identifying business opportunities, developing business case and translating such plans into solutions to improve service delivery is also very important
• The service delivery manager must be effective at communicating with all kinds of individuals – clients, managers, and subordinates