Client Project Manager III

ffive; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

F5’s Client Project Management team focuses on delivering technology and systems implementation projects, serving as the main client contact and guiding cross-functional teams to meet scope, timelines, and budgets. The role emphasizes collaboration, accountability, and delivering measurable business outcomes for clients.

We value judgment, initiative, and adaptability to navigate complex projects, manage risks, and drive program governance.

Qualifications

• Leads end-to-end delivery of client projects in technology or systems domains.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders and internal delivery teams.
• Manages scope, schedules, and resourcing, proactively mitigating risks and resolving issues.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure technical and business requirements are met.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of mid-to-large-scale client projects in technology or systems domains.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders and internal delivery teams.
• Manages scope, schedules, and resourcing, proactively mitigating risks and resolving issues.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure technical and business requirements are met.

Skills

Project management

Client-facing

Risk management

Budgeting

Job description

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Job Family Overview

The Professional Services family group at F5 is responsible for providing fee-for-service consulting services to clients by providing a complete project solution to achieve measurable business improvement using firm products and services, defining opportunity/process, systems integration, or other proprietary tools.

F5's Client Project Management job family leads client-facing engagements, primarily focused on the delivery of technology, software, or systems implementation projects. Serves as the primary point of contact for clients, managing project scope, timelines, and cross-functional delivery teams. Ensures projects meet technical requirements, quality standards, and business outcomes while maintaining high levels of client satisfaction. Drives complex implementations, develops program governance, and influences account growth through trusted client relationships.

Fundamental 5

TECHNICAL ACUMEN

Possesses a broad understanding of various Client Project Management techniques, tools, and methodologies. Designs, builds and maintains project plans including scope, schedule, budget, and risk management. This includes overseeing Client Project Management teams to ensure project delivery and outcomes are successful across the organization. Lead collaboration across all stakeholders to ensure alignment with organizational and client strategies and priorities.

CRITICAL REASONING (JUDGMENT, DECISION MAKING, AND PRAGMATISM)

Exercises sound judgment based on an ability to incorporate experience, data, priorities, and stakeholder needs, and evaluate potential constraints to arrive at the most beneficial path forward. Consistently exhibits the ability to navigate situations with thought, purpose, and sensibility after adequately contemplating various available courses of action, balancing the trade-offs between immediate and long‑term needs. Recognizes that while the effect of a single fix may not always be terribly significant, the accumulative effect over time makes each decision extremely valuable.

INITIATIVE & ADAPTABILITY

Does more than is required or expected, not because someone requested it but because it will improve or enhance a product and/or avoid problems. Plans for upcoming problems or opportunities and takes actions accordingly. Applies original thinking to improve processes, methods, systems, or services. Deals well with ambiguities, focusing on evaluating a situation, identifying what is and is not a priority, and moving toward the most logical outcome.

PARTNERSHIP

Recognizes collaboration fosters the most effective exchange of ideas and talent, facilitating open dialogues with a wide variety of contributors and stakeholders, building partnerships, leveraging skillsets, and sharing knowledge to achieve a common goal. Creates alignment through mutual accountability, transparent communications, and the application of change management principles.

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

Conveys information, vision, and strategy in an accurate and timely manner, adjusting to ensure understanding based on the audience. Actively listens; seeks to understand rather than respond. Proactively solicits and values diverse perspectives, ideas, and opinions.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of mid-to-large-scale client projects in technology or systems domains.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders and internal delivery teams.
• Manages scope, schedules, and resourcing, proactively mitigating risks and resolving issues.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure technical and business requirements are met.

Attributes

• Receives minimal instruction on new client projects and begins to proactively take on more complex work.
• Uses evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to select the right course of action.
• Work is done independently and is reviewed at critical points.
• May impact closely related teams including all teams that are assisted.
• Proficient in building and maintaining project plans including scope, schedule, Budget and risk management.
• Able to effectively project cost account to both forecast budget and manage expenditures and monitor progress to project pans and design recovery strategies if the project deviates from the baseline plan.
• Communicates moderately complex concepts with others to inform and direct action.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requiremen