Birlasoft - Estimation Champion

Estimation Champion - IT / Software Services Organisation, Birlasoft, Noida !!

Position: Estimation Champion

Location: Noida

Experience: 10+ years

Birlasoft Synopsis

Birlasoft is part of the CK Birla Group which is a global, $1.7 Billion commercial and industrial powerhouse. Its origins date back to 1857 and today the Birla family is among the leading industrialists in the developing world. Birlasoft is a global IT services provider. The Company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Delhi (NOIDA), India with Global offices in Australia, Europe, United States, China and Singapore. Birlasoft offers IT services worldwide from development offices in India, China etc. It is one of the top 25 Indian IT exporters in the world with six development offices across India and employee strength of over 4000 professionals. The organization specializes in software application development and support services using a global delivery model. Its clients include large Fortune-listed companies in Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Mortgage, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Government and ISV (independent software vendors).

Birlasoft is CMMi Level 5 assessed (on Continuous Representation method), PCMM Level 3 assessed (Noida offices) and ISO 9001: 2000 certified organization with a very strong Six Sigma practice. Birlasoft specializes in delivering application development, package implementation and support services. Below are the various Tower and CoE at Birlasoft:

Customer Delivery Group 1 : Banking and Financial Services

- Insurance

Customer Delivery Group 2 :

- Manufacturing & Others like Education, Government Biz, Media etc.

Centre of Excellence (CoE)

- DWBI

- CRM

- ERP (SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle)

- ADM (Java, .Net & Testing)

- Emerging Technologies

- MITS (Managed IT Services)

Birlasoft’s culture of integrity, commitment and excellence has resulted in a stellar record of 96% repeat business.

ESTIMATION CHAMPION

Responsibilities

- Ensure that estimation models exists for all key solution offerings as part of pre-sales repository

- Standardization of estimation models for common type of projects

- Maintain a list of experts in the company for various estimation models

- Develop and own the process of estimation reviews and ongoing changes in the estimation models

- Ensure that all estimates are prepared / reviewed by the expert panel for all managed projects

- Ensure that estimation models are improved continuously based on feedback from delivered projects and win / loss data

- Review estimates of key AMS deals

- Play a proactive in deal structuring (including estimation) for all large deals

Experience Requirement

- Very strong project/program management experience in delivery

- Expertise in multiple estimation models in IT services projects

- Proven expertise in large deal structuring; knowledge of competitive estimation/business models; TPA exposure (in context of large deals) preferred

- Must have experience in estimation and delivery of Application Management projects

- Certification on industry standard estimation techniques/ forums (e.g. IFPUG) will be a distinct advantage

- Ability to work in highly dynamic and matrix organization, collaboration with multiple stakeholders

Contact -
Jagpreet Mehta
Talent Acquisition Group
Email: jagpreet.mehta@birlasoft.com