Project Manager

Brennan; Navi Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and certification bonuses

Culture Awards

Brennan Daredevils trip

Social activities

Discounted hardware & software

Learning and development

Job summary

Brennan is seeking a Project Manager to independently lead delivery of digital projects across Cloud, Data & AI, or Business Applications within a professional services setting. You will work with customers, teams and internal stakeholders to manage scope, schedule, cost and quality, ensuring positive outcomes and adherence to Brennan’s delivery frameworks.

You will own planning, reporting and stakeholder updates, escalate risks, and drive continuous improvement by applying Brennan’s standards

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management, project delivery or professional services delivery roles.
• Experience delivering digital, cloud, business application or IT professional services projects.
• Experience working in structured project environments with multiple stakeholders and defined governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of assigned professional services projects with customers and teams.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, risk and quality to ensure customer outcomes.
• Maintain project governance, plans and status reporting.
• Coordinate communications and reporting to stakeholders and executives.

Skills

Project management

Delivery governance

Stakeholder communication

Risk & issue management

Customer-facing delivery

Team coordination

Budget tracking

Change control

Education

PM certification (PMP/PRINCE2)

Tools

MS Project

PPM systems

MS Office

Job description

Brennan. Where true performance thrives.

At Brennan, we believe that how technology is delivered is every bit as important as what the technology is. We focus on creating real and relevant value for customers with solutions that fit their specific needs and always reflect their true interests.

It’s a claim backed by our True Performance System - a way of working engineered to get us closer, and deliver better, for our customers and their actual experience of technology.

Why join Brennan

True performance for our customers starts with a true belief in our people.

It’s why we’ve structured our business to help our teams, and their talents, shine bright. It's why we’ve created a workplace where people of all backgrounds, beliefs and experiences are welcomed and empowered. And it’s why we’ve built an organization where real innovation makes a genuine impact and generates true rewards for our team members.

True rewards

• Training and certification bonuses
• Culture Awards that recognize excellence
• Brennan Daredevils - our annual, all-expenses paid trip awarded to our top performers and outstanding contributors
• Vibrant, fun social activities
• Discounted hardware and software
• An environment that embraces learning and development

The Role

The Project Manager is responsible for independently leading the delivery of digital projects across Cloud, Data & AI, or Business Application practices within a professional service environment. The role works directly with customers, project teams and internal stakeholders to manage delivery activities, maintain project governance, control scope, schedule, cost and quality, and deliver positive customer outcomes aligned to Brennan’s delivery frameworks.

The Project Manager owns project planning, coordination, reporting and stakeholder communication, acting as the day-to-day delivery owner for assigned projects. The role is accountable for identifying, managing and resolving risks, issues and delivery challenges, escalating appropriately where decisions, support or intervention are required to keep projects on track.

The Project Manager contributes to continuous improvement by applying Brennan’s project management standards, using approved tools effectively, and demonstrating strong project delivery, customer communication, commercial awareness and delivery discipline.

Role Responsibilities

Project Delivery Coordination, Control & Support:

• Independently lead the delivery of assigned professional services projects, typically lower to moderate complexity engagements, working directly with customers, project teams and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate project activities to ensure scope, schedule, budget, quality and customer expectations are understood, managed and tracked.
• Maintain project plans, registers, status reports, meeting minutes and action logs in line with Brennan’s project governance standards.
• Identify, document and track risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and decisions (RAIDD), escalating concerns to the Portfolio Manager or relevant governance forum as required.
• Drive mitigation and follow-up activities by coordinating actions, owners and due dates.
• Manage change control processes by documenting change requests, impacts, approvals and related communication.
• Coordinate impact assessment inputs for cost, schedule, scope, risk and resourcing, escalating material impacts for review and approval.
• Coordinate activities across project team members, helping ensure actions are visible and aligned to upcoming milestones.
• Identify potential resource constraints and elevate early for support and direction.
• Lead project team cadence through clear administration, meeting coordination, follow-up and timely communication.
• Escalate delivery issues promptly through agreed governance and escalation pathways.
• Maintain accurate and timely project information within the PPM tool and associated systems.

Financial & Commercial Management

• Manage project financial administration, including budget tracking, forecast updates, timesheet follow-up and billing milestone visibility.
• Monitor actuals against forecast and baseline, identifying variances and driving corrective actions with appropriate escalation where required.
• Drive recovery actions for at-risk projects by tracking agreed actions, owners, due dates and commercial impacts.
• Ensure billable effort is accurately captured and aligned to client agreements, approved scope and billing milestones.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Lead customer and internal stakeholder communication through clear project updates, meeting notes and action summaries.
• Facilitate project working groups and customer status meetings, including agendas, minutes, actions and follow-up.
• Prepare timely project reporting focused on progress, risks, issues, actions and forecast updates.
• Work directly with customers, project teams and internal stakeholders to resolve day to-day delivery matters and elevate where business decisions or leadership support are required.
• Own customer-facing project management activities within defined governance and support structures.

Pre-Sales Support And Initiation

• Lead project initiation activities by confirming scope, assumptions, deliverables, risks, milestones and handover information.
• Manage transition from sales to delivery by preparing project documentation, organising kick-off activities and confirming initial project administration requirements.

Capability & Continuous Improvement

• Follow Brennan’s Project Framework, delivery standards and information security policies.
• Contribute ideas for improving project administration, reporting consistency and delivery practices.
• Contribute to improved delivery outcomes by applying practical project management experience, sharing lessons learned and supporting consistent use of Brennan’s delivery practices.

KEY COMPETENCIES

Delivery Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management, project delivery or professional services delivery roles, with demonstrated ownership of customer-facing projects.
• Experience delivering digital, cloud, business application or IT professional services projects is required.
• Experience working in structured project environments with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and defined governance processes.

Professional Skills And Technology

• Strong working knowledge of project delivery methods, governance, scheduling, reporting, risk management, issue management and change control.
• Relevant project management certification is desirable, such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, AgilePM, Scrum Master or similar.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, project scheduling tools and PPM systems. MS Project Operations exposure preferred.
• Experience working with distributed delivery teams is mandatory.

Behavioural Capabilities

• Organised and reliable project professional with strong attention to detail and follow through.
• Proactive and accountable, with sound judgement to resolve delivery matters independently and elevate early where project decisions, risks or customer matters require leadership support.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarise project information for internal teams and customers.
• Strong issue resolution, stakeholder engagement and customer-facing project leadership skills.
• Strong customer and team focus, with a commitment to Brennan’s core values.
• Collaborative team contributor who can work independently, maintain delivery discipline and engage effectively across local and remote teams.

The responsibilities outlined here are subject to change or amendment at any time at the discretion of the business.

Brennan is an equal opportunity employer.