Vaidehi Sawant

• Own development projects from inception through deployment.
• Serve as primary project contact for clients/internal consultants/Account Managers
• Communicate effectively with all team members, internal and external to drive successful completion of projects.
• Ensure the deliverables meet all quality parameters and take corrective action in case of deviation
• Risk management and mitigation.
• Operate cross-functionally with a wide range of individuals, including account managers, technical teams, client senior executives, and with an international production team in multiple time zones.
• Manage third party contractors and outsourced/insourced teams.

• Working alongside India’s top-most management and technology institutes such as IIM’s and IIT’s
• Assigning and monitoring project tasks to relevant SPOCs to ensure timely closure of activities
• Create reports and presentation on project status for management review on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis
• Vendor/Procurement coordination
• Share ideas with the marketing/creative team to run resourceful campaigns
• Maintain follow up system for action and monitor deadlines on all projects
• Circulate action items and minutes of the meeting to stakeholders and ensure timely closure of the open points
• Tracking of budgeted vs actual spends and calling out deviations if any
• Assist with special projects and reports as required
• Provide marketing and creative insights on weekly review to enhance standards
• To support existing, or where appropriate develop, effective communication structures, channels, and tools to maximize the delivery of projects
• Constructively attend and minute Business head meetings and create tasks/ tackers for team members

• Handling/delegating tasks to the team
• Helping teams achieve their targets in meeting company goals
• Managing internal and external communication with authors/reviewer/external stakeholders globally
• Giving feedback to the team on a timely basis
• Conflict and relationship management
• Interaction with business executives to identify requirements and create project scopes to help meet objectives
• Creating schedules and deadlines for project delivery in agile workflow
• Aligning processes with organization’s strategic goals and identifying bugs and glitches
• Help stakeholders maintain the project budget and release invoices on time
• Check resource requirements for internal stakeholders
• Training and budding newcomers

• Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, and operational specifications
• Developed project database for use by team members to track progress
• Interacted with business executives to identify requirements and created project scopes to help meet objectives
• Utilized talents in project management, organization, and time management to successfully juggle simultaneous tasks
• Worked in alignment with the Project Manager in planning the deadlines for projects
• MOST RELIABLE AND RELENTLESS PERFORMER (MAY 2017) - PACKT

• Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable
• Coordinated and managed internal and external stakeholder
• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project
• Infused new ideas in the team to streamline the process
• Made sure the deliverables of the product (content) from the Authors were received on time
• Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours
• Organizing, attending, and participating in stakeholder meetings
• Prepared weekly and monthly project status reports
• Worked closely with the Project Manager to eliminate blockers