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Consulting Project Management, Manager - CTJ - TS / SCI

Consulting Project Management, Manager - CTJ - TS / SCI

Virginia StaffingReston, VA, US
1 day ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Consulting Project Management Manager

The Consulting Project Management Manager provides support and guidance for the team in identifying and evaluating trends and gathering customer / partner insights to map architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer / partner business outcomes. Supports and guides team in developing and expanding existing impactful relationships with customer and partner architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders. Coaches team members to focus on customer / partner experience through efficient delivery. Drives adherence to Microsoft standards and recommended practices by setting expectations for the team around methodology and governance to ensure that the team identifies, communicates, and minimizes business and technical risks. Provides team with a holistic perspective of customer / partner challenges, industry trends, and competitor architectures to allow team members to engage with customers / partners, demonstrate Microsoft's value, and develop counter strategy.

The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal / regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment Civilian, Defense, or Intelligence community.

In the Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) delivery team we are looking for delivery management specialists with a passion for nurturing customer relationships, championing high quality throughout presales and delivery, aligning delivery to successful customer outcomes, whilst maintaining a healthy portfolio and project management team. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, honing your industry and cloud expertise as well as developing deeper practice management skills.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Account Delivery Management

  • Supports strategic relationships with key stakeholders in the customer portfolio, often as part of a steering committee, to ensure service delivery is on track and major issues are being anticipated, identified, and managed.
  • Supports new customer opportunities in partnership with Sales with highly significant or global impacts for Microsoft.
  • Communicates current view of delivery to customer executives on regular cadence, as appropriate.

Business Growth

  • Recognizes opportunities, creates a shared vision and direction, and moves people and processes in a new direction for a sector(s) or geoarea(s).
  • Innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Consulting personnel or the broader organization, if required, to shape new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts for large or strategic opportunities.
  • When appropriate, innovates and implements long-term, strategic plans, in partnership with Sales to create new opportunities and sustainable growth for customer accounts across the account portfolio.
  • As needed, negotiates, collaborates on, reviews, and contributes to deal approval processes, sometimes challenging deal construct to ensure Microsoft initiatives are incorporated appropriately.
  • Ensures delivery team alignment and holds delivery team accountable for delivering on sales strategy.
  • Looks for or creates opportunities to maximize timely cloud consumption through current deliveries.
  • Coaches team and Consulting Project Managers (CPMs) to identify new opportunities with customers and to accelerate delivery or prevent delivery delays.
  • Proactively reshapes portfolio to maximize consumption and drive transformation deliveries.
  • Reviews new deals to quantify the expected outcomes are deliverable, risk process is managed, and that costs / resources and number of hours are correctly identified.
  • Ensures the use, reuse, and creation of intellectual property (IP) in delivery, as applicable.
  • Owns the financial health of the portfolio (e.g., revenue attainment, accurate forecasting and portfolio planning, cost management, and utilization, skills, and capacity planning).
  • Identifies opportunities to accelerate and drive consumption and delivery.
  • Owns and drives backlog risk management.
  • Drives incremental business on top of existing portfolio through next step proposals, conducts customer discussions related to NSP and other opportunities.
  • Engages in the pursuit cycle to ensure deals are structured appropriately.
  • Supports and contributes to rhythm of business (ROB) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) forecasting.
  • Closure

  • Validates the customer sign off on Proof of Delivery / Delivery Acceptance Form.
  • Seeks themes in lessons learned and delivery constraints / issues, and documents and socializes with relevant internal Microsoft teams to improve intellectual property (IP) and feed into continuous improvement.
  • Contracting

  • Reviews and approves original contract and subsequent change requests.
  • Acts as an escalation point should the contract not be of the required quality, or has created ambiguity in the delivery of professional services to the customer.
  • Reviews and approves subcontractor onboarding (e.g., purchase orders, invoice approvals).
  • Delivery Management

  • Ensures the right mix of internal / external resources are assigned in engagements to drive Microsoft's strategic use of onshore, offshore, nearshore, and partner delivery resource pools.
  • Optimizes use of resources according to deal shaping and financial efficiency to maximize customer value.
  • Drives delivery excellence, maturity, and quality, leveraging Quality Assurance partners and organizations and ensuring appropriate use of Microsoft and industry methodologies.
  • Oversees the successful delivery of projects, ensuring proper project initiation is followed and documented both internally and externally using Service Delivery Methodology (SDM).
  • Oversees the delivery team (Consulting Project Managers [CPMs]) as a primary escalation point for any delivery issues.
  • Monitors the health and risk profile of individual projects through Project Health Reviews.
  • Ensures that customers are surveyed for delivery satisfaction.
  • Proactively anticipates when projects may go poorly and steps in to pivot priorities for mitigation.
  • Influences others to secure resources for deliveries, and holds teams accountable for maintaining obligations to customer contracts and ensuring delivery services across the services lifecycle.
  • Attends steering committee meetings, as needed, with strategic customers to remove blockers and ensure delivery success.
  • Intellectual Property (IP)

  • Ensures the use, reuse, and creation of intellectual property (IP) in delivery, as applicable.
  • Monitoring and Controlling

  • Reviews risks and issues directly with Consulting Project Managers in Project Health Reviews.
  • Acts as the primary escalation point back to establish consensus and a unified message to the customer.
  • Reviews and approves customer change control processes.
  • Acts as primary escalation point for any technical issues.
  • Overall, is accountable for the quality of the technical delivery of the engagement.
  • May be positioned as an Executive Steerco Member on customer engagements.
  • Facilitates across organizational boundaries to gain consensus and direction on the delivery.
  • Ensures that customer opportunities, questions, and / or issues are brought to the appropriate internal teams (e.g., Sales, Architects).
  • Models and encourages others to develop and / or expand awareness of internal mechanisms in order to best address customer needs.
  • Establishes accountabilities, when appropriate, to drive customer outcomes and ensure internal stakeholders are in place.
  • Ensures Consulting Project Managers' adherence to internal financial rhythms of business (ROBs).
  • Acts as primary escalation point for budgetary issues.
  • Serves as the primary approver for the release of any Risk Reserve required on engagements.
  • Steps in to take remedial actions with Consulting Project Managers on specific engagements if key performance indicators (KPIs) or certain metrics are not at the quality levels required, to understand and remediate any issues.
  • People Management

  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
  • Model : Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles.
  • Coach : Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn.
  • Care : Attract and retain great people. Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.
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