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Certification
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Saraswati Sharma

Saraswati Sharma

Manager - Project Management Office
Mumbai,Maharashtra

Summary

Project Management Professional with 12+ years of work experience. Highly skilled in all project governance support. Organized Team Leader with exceptional ability to build positive rapport, inspire trust and guide teams toward achievement of organizational goals. Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Manager - PMO (Project Management Office)

Heubach Colorants India Limited
10.2023 - Current
  • Demand management Set up
  • PMO Function Set up
  • To create the project structures to ensure that, projects are progressing within the budget and timeline, resource utilization is done efficiently, risk assessment is done across the projects.
  • To provide data and reports to the management by centralizing all the information and providing the same to concerned stakeholders. Such reports include progress of the project, whether milestones being achieved on time or not, status of the deliverables, progress on mitigation of the risks and Financial data such as budget, marginal cost, actual cost.
  • Effective Resource planning through creation of a resource plan and visibility of availability for all the stakeholders. They ensure the resource is utilized efficiently and track all the project, non-project related activities.
  • To create the processes and workflows along with the responsibility to streamline the same. Few of them include streamlining the resource allocation process, keeping the data updated for resources such as their skills, experience they have, etc.
  • To highlight any risks or issues which can cause disaster before it’s too late.
  • To simplify team communication and collaboration, and to ensure that all the teams across different locations are on the same page and the tasks are being done on time without any delays.
  • To ensure that knowledge is being shared across the teams in a project. They provide documentation, templates, project plans to all the concerned team members to save time for the team members. All the information/documents are centrally placed for the ease of the team.

Manager, Program & Project Management

ITC Infotech
8 2022 - 10.2023
  • Resource management: Manage program/project resource planning and allocation including adjustments based on emerging business or technical opportunities and challenges
  • Provide program/PM business justification into VOIS approval and pursuing an active acceleration in the hiring process with the workforce and recruitment teams
  • Mentoring associates with organization related guidelines and facilitating with support for any hurdle which might impacting project deliverables
  • Strengthen the overall profiling of the UI UX Program portfolio of required skillsets as per the new pipeline projects
  • Motivate associates on tangible accomplishments and contributions
  • Financial management: Responsible for BC and CR controlling, monitoring, and coordinating with internal stakeholders for the information
  • Responsible to track project RAG and RAID status
  • Program & Project governance: Primary point of contact for any enquiries, information, and advocate for project management best practices within UI UX VOIS India
  • Active participation and contribution in the leadership governance review and tactical action plans
  • Asset, license, procurement management and reporting
  • Creating Power point presentation as per business requirements
  • Vendor management
  • Stakeholder management
  • MS excel Reporting
  • Weekly project tracking with support of project leads
  • Facilitating team event planning & scheduling
  • ITC – People manager
  • Facilitate short- and long-term upskilling and competencies objectives through individual development planning to associates
  • Timesheet management.

Lead, Project Management Office

Capgemini India
09.2018 - 08.2022
  • Governing annual budgeting and monthly forecasting for Fixed Price and T&M project annual contract worth $15mn USD
  • Collaborate with leadership and finance team for effective planning and forecasting of budget
  • Identify and drive process improvements initiatives by automating manual reports and share project financial insights with leadership for corrective actions
  • Enhanced financial reporting with in-depth analysis and proactive recommendations to improve resource utilization and optimize cost
  • Evaluated employees' strengths and assigned tasks based upon experience and training.

Project Management Coordinator

Orange Business Services
03.2016 - 08.2018
  • Support portfolio managers in project planning and controlling phase by making appropriate use of project management methodology and service delivery processes to maximize service delivery quality
  • Customized project management methodology and templates to suit project requirements
  • Accelerate project management activities and optimize processes
  • Develop and maintain key project deliverables like SOW, Project Plan, Project Charter, etc
  • Share sign off evidence and artifacts during project audits and reviews
  • Document best practices and lesson learned post project closure and share outcomes with Leadership and peers
  • Resolved conflicts between vendor & client through effective Risk/Issue management process.

Analyst, Project Management Office

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
08.2012 - 02.2016
  • Create SLA artifacts for project pricing computation
  • Govern & validate project methodology and artifacts to maximize service delivery quality
  • Established and maintained centralized repository such as statement of work, project plan, risk & issue tracker etc
  • Execute periodic budget and forecast review with project stakeholders
  • Execute resource management activities such as demand supply, project onboarding & offboarding
  • Develop project performance report for periodic Leadership reviews.

Education

MBA: Master of Business Administration -

NMIMS Global
10.2021 - 04.2022

BBA: Business Administration and Management - undefined

SNDT University
06.2008 - 05.2011

Certification

05/01/2019, Certified Scrum Master

Accomplishments

  • Capgemini STAR Special Thanks Award Q1-FY21
  • Capgemini Enabling Champion Award Q4-FY19
  • Mobilized new financial tool deployed by organization for Delivery metric reporting with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Optimization of process by getting manual reports automated with the help of technical team
  • ACE – Accenture Celebrate Excellence Award FY14

Timeline

Manager - PMO (Project Management Office)

Heubach Colorants India Limited
10.2023 - Current

MBA: Master of Business Administration -

NMIMS Global
10.2021 - 04.2022

Lead, Project Management Office

Capgemini India
09.2018 - 08.2022

Project Management Coordinator

Orange Business Services
03.2016 - 08.2018

Analyst, Project Management Office

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
08.2012 - 02.2016

BBA: Business Administration and Management - undefined

SNDT University
06.2008 - 05.2011

Manager, Program & Project Management

ITC Infotech
8 2022 - 10.2023

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