Advisory Project Manager - India

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So, when it comes to joining a team of IT and communications technology pros who are empowered to do what they do best, your best choice -- your #1 choice -- is C1

Summary

Overview

The Advisory Project Manager role is responsible for both upfront planning and day-to-day oversight of initiatives across the Advisory team’s projects. This role works to ensure that advisory engagements are executed predictably, on time, and with clear outcomes while coordinating multiple advisory workstreams. This role brings strong planning, coordination, and follow-through capabilities and thrives in environments requiring structure, adaptability, and proactive communication. This role requires a strong sense of ownership, clear and consistent communication, and the ability to work independently while staying closely aligned with C1 and customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Manages advisory engagement timelines, milestones, and deliverables
• Coordinate SMEs, customers, and stakeholders
• Tracks risks, dependencies, and issues
• Maintains executive-level reporting and communication
• Ensures consistent delivery methodology across OPTIM engagements
• Supports project intake and pre-planning efforts, including scope framing, estimating, resource alignment, and milestone planning
• Facilitates regular check-ins, status reporting, and project health reviews with stakeholders and leadership
• Tracks performance against defined metrics and timelines, escalating risks and blockers proactively
• Drives continuous improvement through retrospectives, lessons learned, and feedback loops
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, project management, information systems, computer science, or related field
• 8+ years in project or program management
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder engagements
• Fluent in the English language (verbal/written)
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Some overlap with U.S. business hours is expected to support real-time collaboration and project cadence
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Demonstrated ability to lead structured planning efforts, develop project documentation, and manage timelines, scope, and resources
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience engaging technical and business stakeholders, including leadership
• High sense of ownership and accountability; able to work independently while navigating ambiguity and driving clarity
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, or Smartsheet
• Comfortable working in a distributed, cross-cultural team environment with stakeholders across time zones
• Demonstrated ability to proactively communicate progress, surface risks early, and take initiative without waiting for direction
  
  

Desired/Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or SAFe certification
• Familiarity with collaborative work management tools (e.g., ADO, Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, Microsoft Project)
• Prior experience supporting U.S.-based project teams or clients is a plus
  
  

Additional Information

Work Environment

Ability to handle multiple priorities and demands in a fast-paced environment. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

Physical Environment

Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Other Duties/Changes

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all duties, responsibilities or activities that are required of a team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. At any point in time, the essential functions and primary duties associated with this position will be the principal, major or most important duties, responsibilities and activities that the employee is expected to perform as determined and directed by C1.

EEO Statement

C1 provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants for employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, and all team members will be treated with respect to their employment, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status. For further details, please view the EEO Policy Statement ( EEO Policy Statement ) and/or the current version of the workplace poster ( https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf ; https://www.eeoc.gov/poster )

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