Sr. Project Manager Job

Experience : 10 - 15 Years

Role summary

Plans and manages Client's infrastructure refresh and vSphere 9.x upgrade programme on Client's behalf. Builds the integrated programme plan, defines timelines and milestones, and tells Client when each technical role is needed. Reports to Client's engagement SPOC and assigns day-to-day work to the YASH technical team. This is a hands-on PM role in a technically demanding, regulated environment; the PM must understand VMware and Dell platform work well enough to challenge the plan, not just track it.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain the integrated programme plan for the Refresh Programme and the Upgrade Programme: timelines, milestones, wave sequencing, dependencies and critical path. Baseline it with Client within four weeks of starting.
• Prepare the resource onboarding plan and recommend to Client when each technical role should be called off; coordinate onboarding and release with Client and YASH.
• Coordinate with Dell's programme team on hardware delivery, site readiness and deployment windows, and with Client's regional project managers in the US, Europe and APAC.
• Run the qualification workflow with Client's Digital Quality function: protocol submission, review scheduling, comment tracking and package closure.
• Own the change calendar: schedule cutover, upgrade and maintenance windows inside Client's change process and each site's maintenance window; line up application owners for testing and sign-off.
• Maintain the programme tracker, RAID log, decision log and action log; escalate risks and issues to Client's SPOC with a recommended action.
• Weekly status reporting, fortnightly steering with Client stakeholders, monthly hours and utilisation reporting per resource.
• Coordinate documentation handover and knowledge transfer to Client's operations team at each site close and at programme close.

Must-have experience

• 10 to 15 years in IT infrastructure delivery, with at least 5 years managing data centre, virtualisation or platform refresh programmes end to end.
• Has run at least one VMware vSphere upgrade or migration programme, or a Dell (VxRail, PowerEdge, PowerStore) hardware refresh, across multiple sites.
• Worked in a GxP or otherwise regulated environment with formal IQ/OQ or validation deliverables and a quality function in the approval chain.
• Comfortable coordinating a hardware OEM (Dell or equivalent) and regional stakeholders across three time zones.
• Strong written English; produces clear plans, status reports and RAID logs without supervision.

Good to have

• PMP or PRINCE2.
• ITIL Foundation.
• Prior experience with Broadcom/VMware licensing changes or VCF migrations.
• Pharma or life-sciences customer background.