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Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager – POI & Navigation Mapping

Location: Not Specified

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: 10–15 years

Number of Openings: Not Specified

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Geography, Geoinformatics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • Master's degree or PMP / Prince2 certification preferred
  • Equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience will be considered

Summary

  • Senior leadership role responsible for end-to-end project delivery within the Points of Interest (POI) & Navigation Mapping domain
  • Drives operational excellence by managing large, cross-functional teams and ensuring adherence to project timelines, quality benchmarks, and SLA commitments
  • Acts as a key bridge between senior management, clients, and functional teams to ensure seamless project execution and stakeholder alignment
  • Oversees people, process, and performance management functions to build a high-performing and scalable delivery organization
  • Plays a critical role in risk mitigation, escalation resolution, and continuous improvement of mapping and navigation workflows

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery Management
  • Lead end-to-end project planning, execution, and delivery management for POI & Navigation mapping projects
  • Define project milestones, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps aligned with client expectations
  • Conduct periodic project status review meetings and provide timely updates to senior management on project progress and team performance
  • Manage project risks proactively, implement mitigation strategies, and drive effective change management
Team & People Management
  • Lead and manage large, multi-layered teams including Team Managers, Team Leads, and Individual Contributors
  • Oversee the complete talent lifecycle including hiring, onboarding, training, mentoring, and performance reviews
  • Identify Training Needs (TNI) across teams, design training plans, and evaluate Training Effectiveness (TE)
  • Foster a collaborative, results-driven work culture aligned with organizational goals
Operations & Process Management
  • Coordinate with cross-functional managers to ensure smooth and efficient project execution
  • Drive service delivery performance by monitoring operational metrics and implementing process improvements
  • Recommend and implement improvements to the mapping and data production processes
  • Adapt team strategies in response to organizational or client-driven change management initiatives
Quality & SLA Management
  • Review, maintain, and manage quality metrics to ensure consistent delivery against defined benchmarks
  • Monitor and enforce SLA adherence across all project deliverables and team functions
  • Establish quality control checkpoints throughout the project lifecycle to minimize rework and errors
Stakeholder & Escalation Management
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for client coordination, resolving technical queries and managing escalations effectively
  • Manage stakeholder interactions across internal and external functions to ensure alignment and transparency
  • Address and resolve escalations in a timely manner, ensuring minimal business impact
Reporting & Governance
  • Provide senior management with structured, timely inputs on project health, risks, and team performance
  • Leverage project management tools and workflow management systems for tracking, reporting, and governance
  • Conduct regular performance monitoring and implement corrective actions where required

Required Skills

Technical Skills
  • Deep domain knowledge of Points of Interest (POI) and Navigation Mapping processes
  • Strong understanding of geospatial data, map data lifecycle, and digital map content management
  • Proficiency in project management tools and workflow management systems
  • Familiarity with quality management frameworks and mapping production pipelines
Functional Skills
  • End-to-end project planning and delivery management
  • SLA management and service delivery governance
  • Risk identification, assessment, and mitigation planning
  • Escalation management and issue resolution
  • Performance monitoring, reporting, and metrics management
  • Staffing, Training Need Identification, and Training Effectiveness evaluation
Soft Skills
  • Exceptional leadership and team management skills with experience handling large teams
  • Strong stakeholder communication and management capabilities
  • Analytical and problem-solving mindset
  • Adaptability to change management and dynamic project environments
  • Strong organizational and decision-making skills

Desired Skills

  • Exposure to HERE Maps, TomTom, Google Maps Platform, or similar mapping ecosystems
  • Knowledge of GIS tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, or similar platforms
  • Experience working in global delivery or offshore-onshore engagement models
  • Familiarity with Agile or Hybrid project management methodologies
  • Experience in data quality assurance frameworks specific to geospatial domains

Domain / Industry

  • Geospatial & Mapping Services
  • Navigation Technology
  • Location Intelligence
  • GIS & Map Data Production

Tools & Technologies

  • Workflow Management Systems (WMS)
  • Project Management Tools (e.g., JIRA, MS Project, Smartsheet)
  • Geospatial / GIS Platforms (ArcGIS, QGIS, or equivalent)
  • Reporting & Dashboard Tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)

Certifications (Preferred)

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) – PMI
  • PRINCE2 Foundation / Practitioner
  • Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt (for process improvement focus)
  • GIS Professional (GISP) Certification (preferred for domain alignment)

Compliance / SOP Exposure

  • Experience working with defined Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in a mapping or geospatial production environment
  • Exposure to data governance and compliance frameworks relevant to map data and location services
  • Familiarity with client-specific delivery protocols and enterprise-level compliance requirements

Required Date: Not Specified

Required Skills

Primary skills

  • End-to-end project planning and delivery management
  • POI and navigation mapping domain knowledge
  • geospatial data and map data lifecycle understanding
  • SLA management
  • risk mitigation
  • escalation management
  • stakeholder management
  • large team leadership
  • performance monitoring
  • quality management
  • process improvement

Secondary skills

  • Project management tools (JIRA
  • MS Project
  • Smartsheet)
  • workflow management systems
  • GIS tools (ArcGIS
  • QGIS)
  • reporting and dashboard tools (Power BI
  • Tableau)
  • Agile/Hybrid methodologies
  • global delivery and offshore-onshore engagement experience
  • SOP and compliance exposure
  • training needs identification
  • training effectiveness evaluation
  • PMP/PRINCE2/Six Sigma/GISP familiarity

Job overview

Job title
Senior Project Manager
Reference ID
RRF-43809
Location
HYD-Telangana, Hyderabad, India
Experience
10 – 15 Yrs
Qualification
Any Degree

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