How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

The main role of a people manager in Cognite INDIA Delivery is to ensure long term professional development of our data engineers and data scientists colleagues in Cognite as well as employee engagement. The position will report to the Head of professions in GSS INDIA and will be part of the profession leadership team. The people managers will be tentatively split into portfolios, similar to the portfolio managers to have an aligned responsibility regarding reviewing scope and delivery, as well as coaching and feedback to the projects. 

• You will work on client projects, but only up to 70% of your capacity (we strive for 50% billable hours on average). This will be decided based on the workload, after discussing with the head of profession.
• Performance review and coaching of team members: Building, developing, and managing a team of highly skilled professionals who will be instrumental in driving the success of professional services projects, including conducting 1:1s and performance reviews
• Drive project success by thoroughly reviewing Statements of Work (SOW) and ensuring your team is fully prepared for execution. Collaborate in SOW reviews to instill confidence in our ability to meet customer and sales expectations. Proactively ready team members for project delivery by identifying skill gaps and providing necessary upskilling and coaching. Ensure team members are equipped to fulfill project scope effectively.
• Training and upskilling people: take charge of organizing professional development sessions for the team on relevant topics for the professions and the projects we work on
• Take a proactive role in staffing processes by championing your team's interests. Actively seek optimal matches between project requirements and available team members, while identifying and addressing potential skill gaps.
• Strategy and planning: contribute to the profession goals alignment with Cognite VMPM as well as Global Delivery KPIs, take initiatives and lead actions to address EES concerns
• Collaborate with profession leadership and IIT to drive initiatives for standardizing our professional practices.
• Facilitate interaction with other parts of GSS and Cognite organization, by, for example, providing feedback to the portfolio managers/global service offering team on how the process of SOW can be improved, collecting and prioritising feedback to Product on bugs and features.
• Lead the recruitment process in order to identify new talents for the team, both internally and externally

 

The Impact you bring to Cognite

• High visibility and possibility for having impact in Cognite
• Have impact on the way we deliver our products and projects and help shape the future of Project Delivery in Cognite
• Be a part of the professional leadership team within GSS
• Learn about and help us shape how we do partner deliveries in GSS
• Help our Data Engineers/Data Scientists grow and develop