About Company

BDO is a global network of professional services firms with a presence in over 166 countries, revenue of over USD 14 billion, and experience of over 60 years. Its a leading service provider for the mid-markets with client service at its heart.

BDO India Services Private Limited (or BDO India) is the India member firm of BDO International. BDO India offers strategic, operational, accounting and tax, and regulatory advisory & assistance for both domestic and international organizations across a range of industries. BDO India is led by more than 300+ Partners & Directors with a team of over 10,000 professionals operating across 14 cities and 20 offices.

We expect to grow sizably in the coming 3-5 years, adding various dimensions to our business and multiplying and increasing the current team size multi-fold.

Role Summary The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering projects that support business outcomes within the Global Services team. The role manages projects from initiation through closure, ensuring agreed scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards, and expected advantages are achieved.

Operating within the organisations project governance and delivery frameworks, the role coordinates business and technology stakeholders, project resources, vendors, and interdependent workstreams. It maintains delivery momentum through structured planning, governance, communication, and proactive management of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and change.

Key accountabilities:

Integration Management

- Lead assigned projects and initiatives within the Global team from initiation through closure, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and approved governance frameworks.
- Coordinate multiple workstreams and project contributors, ensuring deliverables are integrated and aligned with agreed business outcomes.
- Support the Senior Manager with project prioritisation, planning, and sequencing in line with business demand.

Scope Management

- Manage the definition, validation, control, and delivery of project scope, requirements, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure that scope changes are assessed for impact and communicated effectively to stakeholders.
- Maintain complete and accurate project documentation to support governance, transparency, auditability, and traceability.

Time Management

- Create and manage detailed project plans and schedules, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and timelines are realistic, tracked, and met.
- Identify and address schedule constraints, resource conflicts,



and cross-team dependencies early to maintain project momentum.
- Provide timely updates to stakeholders on progress, delays, and recovery plans.

Cost Management

- Monitor and manage assigned project budgets, forecasts, and financial performance, ensuring accountability.
- Track expenditure against forecasts and support cost optimisation efforts.
- Provide accurate and timely budget reporting to relevant stakeholders.

Quality Management

- Ensure project deliverables meet defined quality standards, business requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Adhere to applicable project governance, stage-gate, and QMS requirements.
- Promote compliance with project management standards, governance requirements, and agreed ways of working.
- Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement in project delivery practices, quality, and efficiency.

Resource Management

- Coordinate project resources across functional teams and vendors, ensuring appropriate allocation, availability, and utilisation to meet project objectives.
- Foster collaboration, accountability, and outcome-focused ways of working across the project team.
- Identify resourcing gaps and work with leadership to address capacity and capability needs.

Communications Management

- Act as the primary coordination point between business stakeholders, technology teams, senior leaders, vendors, and project contributors.
- Provide regular, structured updates on project status, milestones, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and performance indicators.
- Ensure timely reporting for various forums and stakeholders, including quarterly reports and governance committees (e.g. IT Management, IT Executive & IITC).
- Prepare and present project status reports, steering committee updates, and governance artefacts.

Risk Management

- Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies to protect delivery outcomes.
- Escalate significant risks or issues to senior leadership with actionable recommendations.
- Conduct project reviews and lessons-learned activities to improve future delivery.

Procurement (Vendor) Management





- Ensure vendor engagements are set up for success with a clearly defined and agreed Statement of Work and documented Ways of Working.
- Manage vendor relationships and third-party deliverables within the project plan.
- Monitor vendor performance and ensure alignment with contractual obligations and delivery expectations.

Stakeholder Management

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business representatives, infrastructure, development, QA, product ownership, operations and support, the PMO, and the Global team, to facilitate cohesive project delivery.
- Engage stakeholders to validate requirements, manage expectations, and ensure delivery remains business-focused.
- Ensure alignment between business objectives, project outcomes, and organisational strategy.
- Champion stakeholder feedback loops to inform delivery adjustments and continuous improvement

Skills and Competencies

- Strong project leadership skills with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and drive agreed outcomes.
- Experience working with third-party vendors and partners to deliver complex projects.
- Ability to establish and adhere to strict project timeframes.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, governance frameworks, delivery lifecycles, and quality management practices.
- Excellent organisational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Effective stakeholder management and communication abilities, with the capacity to present complex project information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project) and collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams).
- Demonstrate the ability to balance priorities among competing needs whilst providing the highest level of value to BDO.
- Strong negotiation and dispute resolution skills.
- Financial literacy to forecast and manage project budgets.
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills, including the ability to influence and drive other team members, and to engage effectively with senior stakeholders.

Key Success Factors

- Ability to balance delivery priorities, business objectives, governance requirements, and stakeholder expectations to achieve successful project outcomes.
- Application of project management disciplines to effectively scope, plan and manage project deliverables.
- Strong leadership and communication skills to manage diverse teams and engage stakeholders effectively.
- Proactive problem-solving and risk management to ensure smooth delivery execution.

📌 Project Manager-Functional (Bhopal)
🏢 BDO India
📍 Bhopal