Contract: Project Manager (Offshore - India)

Application Deadline: 31 July 2026

Department: PMO

Location: India Remote

Description

Qellus is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager based in India to lead client-facing OpenText and enterprise technology projects from initiation through deployment and closure.

This is a hands-on delivery leadership role, not a project coordinator position. The successful candidate must be a strong communicator who can lead client meetings, drive decisions, manage difficult conversations, and hold internal teams, clients, and vendors accountable for commitments.

Most Qellus clients are based in North America, so regular overlap with North American business hours is required. Occasional support for clients in other global regions may also be needed.

Engagement Details:

• Employment type: Temporary contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Work Schedule: Part-time at 3 hours per week, Monday through Friday from 8am - 12 Noon US Central Time (with flexibility based on customer requirements)
• Work Location: India Remote
• Anticipated Start Date: ASAP
• There is potential for assignment with additional customers
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of OpenText, ECM, ERP integration, upgrade, migration, and digital transformation projects.
• Own project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, and client satisfaction.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, resource plans, financial forecasts, and governance documentation.
• Lead client status meetings, workshops, governance calls, and steering committee meetings.
• Drive clear decisions, actions, owners, deadlines, approvals, and sign-offs.
• Hold project team members, clients, and third-party vendors accountable for agreed commitments.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and escalations through a current RAID log.
• Identify delivery concerns early and develop corrective or recovery plans when projects are at risk.
• Manage scope changes and ensure out-of-scope requests are handled through formal change control.
• Track budgets, effort, utilization, billing milestones, revenue, and project profitability.
• Manage delivery against statements of work, contractual obligations, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate architects, consultants, developers, and client resources.
• Manage multiple concurrent client projects across distributed teams and time zones.
• Coordinate testing, cutover planning, production readiness, go/no-go decisions, deployment, hypercare, and transition to support.
• Prepare clear executive-level project status reports, financial updates, risk summaries, and steering committee materials.
• Ensure project documentation and deliverables are reviewed, approved, and stored appropriately.
• Support Account Managers with client relationships, renewals, project expansions, and reference opportunities.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Preferred Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of IT project or program management experience.
• Experience working in a client-facing consulting, systems integration, or professional services environment.
• Proven experience managing complex enterprise technology implementations, upgrades, migrations, integrations, or transformation projects.
• Strong project planning, financial management, risk management, change control, and governance experience.
• Experience managing fixed-price, time-and-materials, or milestone-based engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead client meetings and communicate confidently with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Ability to hold clients, team members, and vendors accountable for deadlines, actions, approvals, and deliverables.
• Experience leading offshore, distributed, or global delivery teams.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Project Plan 365, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Planview, BigTime, Microsoft Teams, or SharePoint.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Availability to regularly support meetings during North American business hours.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing OpenText implementations, upgrades, migrations, integrations, cloud deployments, or support transitions.
• Experience with OpenText Content Management, Extended ECM, Archive Center, or related products.
• Experience managing OpenText integrations with SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, ERP, or other enterprise platforms.
• Experience with enterprise content management, document management, workflow automation, archival, or content migration projects.
• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, SAFe, Agile, or similar project management certification, or working towards certification.
• Experience recovering delayed, over-budget, or at-risk projects.
• Experience working with global clients and project team members.

Leadership Expectations
The successful candidate must be able to:

• Lead the room and keep meetings focused on decisions and outcomes.
• Address missed commitments and delivery concerns directly and professionally.
• Challenge unrealistic timelines, incomplete requirements, and unsupported assumptions.
• Escalate issues early with clear options and recommendations.
• Communicate technical issues in clear business terms.
• Work independently and proactively drive projects forward.
  
  
  

Benefits

Benefits are not available for this position.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement


Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qellus, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees.

Work Authorization Requirements


At this time, Qellus, LLC cannot provide work visa sponsorship for most positions. Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the country where the position is located to be considered for this role. Specific work authorization requirements will be clearly stated in individual job postings.

Accommodations


If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability during the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected]. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure you have an equal opportunity to participate in our recruitment process.