Mangesh Kulkarni Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Area, India

Project: Ulatus Project Management TeamDesignation: Assistant Project Manager (APM)Profile: To liaise with the client servicing team, freelance translators and to allocate translation assignments and ensure high quality, productivity, and timely delivery to clients. Manage workload efficiently to meet deadlines and effectively solve any internal issues.Responsibilities: Project Allocation• Proper selection of freelance vendors• Communication (email and phone)• Maintaining freelancer usage (spread) Workload Management • Tracking close deadlines• Client Deliverables management• Managing last-minute scheduling changes Process management• Maintaining allocation spreadsheets• Basic data analysis Coordination with Client Servicing• Negotiation on deadlines• Understanding client requirementsProject: Global Management TeamDesignation: Assistant Project Manager (APM)Profile: To liaise with the client and ensure high quality, productivity, and timely delivery.Responsibilities:• Liaise with the Operations Team• Work in collaboration with the Project Management Team for efficient project management• Work in collaboration with the Marketing team for implementation of strategies• Efficiently handle the customer service operations for international clients spread across 89 countries• Shoulder responsibility for effective email communication with international clients and home team• Build strategies to facilitate existing client engagement, create new client base, identify potentially high value clients, build effective and long term client relationships• Communicate and coordinate with a team of project managers, academic editors, translators and transcribers• Efficiently handle information management that maintain client records

Mumbai Area, India

• Reviewing the milestone dates and Expected Publishing Date generated by the line managers for new titles and owning those dates and acting on delays if any.• Reviewing all titles in production to check for status change, priority, final draft availability, delays, author/PR issues, performance issues, and resource allocation.• Conducting meetings with title stakeholders (PTLs, DTLs, ETLs, PDTLs, PMs), ensure coordination and consistency in approach to individual project management.• Dealing with escalations from line managers concerning titles, acting as ultimate escalation for individual title progress and decision making, escalating performance issues of LMs to EOMs.• Be proactive and creative in identifying potential problems with resources and timelines and liaising with the relevant people to take appropriate action to solve these problems.• Approving change in EPDs (forward or slippage).• Maintain excellent communication with the EOM about the status of all books in Production and notifying them of any deviations from the agreed project management plan.• Preparing and maintaining daily and weekly reports.• KPIs – Title output & Sales Month

• Managing multiple projects simultaneously.• Responsible for preparing project plans, prioritizing tasks and resources in order to achieve project objectives and ensure adequate communication is maintained regarding project status and priorities.• Facilitating of Project Team meetings.• Support the Senior Management team in maintaining a high level of awareness of project issues, risks, project status and critical path deliverables within the overall project schedule. • Ensure that all Project Managers leading project, communicate projects status to key personnel including project stakeholders, decision makers, sponsors and project team members on a periodic basis.• Provide weekly status reporting of all projects to the Executive Committee.• Coordination of project assignments, approvals and tracking of all active projects.• Re-Engineering business processes to involve the project lifecycle from Inception to Benefit Realization.• Facilitating Function Leaders in defining and planning projects. • Defining and Updating Project schedule plans in MS Project / Project Server 2010.• Defining trackers to measure Metrics.• Identifying and managing risks associated with projects / portfolio.• Prepare Portfolio / Project Performance Report for Senior Management.• Administrating and Implementing MS project Server 2010 customized for different business.

• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members, vendors and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members, vendors and other stakeholders.• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.• Track project milestones and deliverables.• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.

• To maintain 2 databases, which includes updating client information, maintaining client research subscriptions and the activities logged against each client in relation with the analyst and sales.• Managing subscriptions to the ABN AMRO & RBS research websites as well as giving access to the Third-party websites like Reuters, Factset, Capital IQ, The Markets and Bloomberg.• Monitoring mailbox and to deal with replies for all published research. This includes handling various analyst and sales requests and owning all assigned problems until resolved / circumvented or escalated.• Handling the entire process of generating hardcopy mailing lists including IPO / Deal Notes and ensuring smooth and timely delivery of research reports to clients across the globe.• Produce monthly reports for Equity Management (Sales & Research).• Providing support to research assistants, analyst and sales in maintaining client relationship.• Train new staff on RBS’s equity client management systems.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

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