Neelakantan K

· Planning the project by understanding the scope, ensuring the acceptance criteria is clear and precise; determining the resource and developing the project schedule

· Managing complex projects for corporate and public sector clients ensuring quality delivery on time and in budget

· Drive the execution of multiple projects, from inception through delivery.

· Vendor management experience, working with on- and off-shore resources/vendors to ensure that the Third Party Provider(s) are being held accountable for their deliverables

· Establish and track project budgets and schedules.

· Facilitates troubleshooting and solves problems

· Coordinating with client and acting as a SPOC for planning and administering.

· Ensuring timely and high-quality outputs linked to organizational goals

· Hired, trained and managed 100+ resources to execute operations across India

· Manage the pipeline of inbound design needs from various teams.

· Defined and implemented the end-to-end (Design to delivery) product process.

· Experiment and onboarded new tools such as Team Gantt, Asana to improve the work produced by the team.

· Prioritize new and ongoing projects, and quickly react to real-time changes.

· Monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve communication between and within teams.

· Optimize the design process to provide faster turnaround of business-critical design assets.

· Collaborate with various stakeholders across the organization to deliver high-impact work.

· Identified the factors for calculating NPS to track the effectiveness of completed design and collect metrics about successes and failures for use in future design.

· Responsible for executing Projects deliverables for offshore platforms for ANZ and India region, to specification and Quality requirements, on schedule and within budget.

· Ensure company processes, QA, EHS and risk management functions are followed.

· Responsible for leading a cross functional team comprising of planners, engineers, manufacturing, test and assembly and ensuring they meet the obligations of the contract.

· Lead & be accountable for negotiating the change orders.

· Drive profitability of projects with specific cost-out actions by interacting closely with fulfilment, engineering and sourcing representatives.

· Achieve financial and operational targets committed for the region. Drive US$20MM Revenue, US$ 4MM CM for each Quarter.

· Monitoring expenses and liaison with finance team for timely invoicing & payment activities.

• Managing day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
• Accurately forecasts revenue, profitability, and margins.
• Ensure product quality, delivery and profitability.
• Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion.
• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

• Chaired weekly program review meetings, chased managers' actions and updates the same to the Management team.
• Coordinates with PMO in preparing ad hoc presentations and other tasks as required.
• Provides support to Business Analyst and Project Managers with the help of PMO Lead.
• Project revenue recognition follow up.
• Have experience on conducting induction programs, trainings for project requirements.