Rajesh Jahagirdar

Experience

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  Lectrotek Systems

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

  Service Engineer
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  Zensar Technologies

  Sept 1996 - Aug 2011

  Program Manager

  Key Responsibilities as Program Manager July 2007- Aug 2011- Delivery Management of onshore & offshore deliverables - Monitor overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as necessary- Planning, Efficient resource allocation across projects, best practices- Revenue growth, Gross Margins, Customer Satisfaction Targets, Talent Retention- Ensuring project deliverables met on time, quality & budget- Understanding client needs, requirements, and expectations and devising solutions accordingly- Manage dependencies between projects, risks, gaps in the program and rectify where possible- Identifying training & development needs of team and monitoring their career progressionKey Responsibilities as Project Manager (2002-2007) - Planning and Defining Scope Activity Planning and Sequencing - Resource Planning, Developing Schedules - Time Estimating, Cost Estimating - Developing a Budget, Controlling Quality - Managing Risks and Issues, Creating Charts and Schedules - Risk Analysis,Customer Liaison - Scalability, Interoperability and Portability Analysis - Project operational activities like invoice billing /PO/ SOW, Time Sheet approvals. Key Responsibilities as Developer/Lead Developer (1996-2002)- Creation of specifications for individual Program units, Unit Test, System Integration test- Test Bed Creation like test data setup, scripts, validation of test scripts and data- Perform unit and system integration testing, user acceptance testing. - Build Web sites using ASP, ASP. Net, MCMS 2002, MS SQL, Java/J2EE- Backend stored objects like function, procedures, packages and database triggers. - Code-walk through / Peer review / Bug fixing of software components Performed Show less

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  Syntel

  Aug 2011 - Jun 2013

  Delivery Manager

  Key Responsibilities as Delivery Manager, Delivery Management - Delivery Management by Monitoring onshore & offshore deliverables - Monitor overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as necessary- Responsible for Revenue growth, Gross Margins, Customer Satisfaction Targets- Manage client expectations and demands proactively while maintaining good client relationships.- Ensure effective application deliveries within the required timescales and budget. - Engagement with senior Management, sales team and other internal stakeholders - Define and design process, dashboard, Reporting’s, inter-dependencies, process.- Implement best practices and Leading Process Improvements.- Project Initiation, Scope, Plan, Review, Project Charter, Schedule, SOW, Resource Plan.- Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Resource Management, Process Improvement.- Resource recruitment & allocation, team ramp-up, client communication, issue resolution, PO. Show less

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  Zensar Technologies

  Sept 2013 - now

  Lead and drive the team of bid managers & others globally ensuring WINNING the bids Manage multiple strategic deals, lead small and large bids Ensure effective bid management implementation, Preparing substantive responses to Requests for Proposal (RFP), Requests for Information (RFI) and other client requests. Coordinating across various teams to deliver the proposition including technical solution, delivery approach, transition methodology, effort estimation, legal validation, financial models etc. Ensuring corporate support at various levels as the bid merits Ensuring bid management precision – adherence to milestones and process requirements Show less Responsible for leading delivery accounts - India and other key territories. Responsible for Delivery excellence of all the projectsResponsible for the overall operational accountability, productivity with high quality deliverables leading to high customer satisfactionDrive profitability and continued success through managing service quality, cost and leadership of the people delivering services across projects/ programs/portfolios of all scale.Also, headed the Sales Enablement (Pre-sales function) for Application Management Services helping to win multi tower, multi million deals. Show less

  • AVP & Global Head Presales & Bid Management

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Director - Presales & Bid Management, Strategic Deals

    May 2017 - Jul 2021

  • Delivery Head and Sales Enablement - AMS

    Oct 2014 - May 2017

  • Senior Bid Manager

    Sept 2013 - Oct 2014