Engagement Manager

Accountabilities: • Own strategic client relationships and serve as the primary escalation point for senior client stakeholders.

• Develop and execute account-growth strategies focused on upselling, cross-selling, renewals, team extensions, incremental revenue, and account expansion.

• Build relationships across new client business units to identify additional opportunities and strengthen account penetration.

• Lead SOW development, RFP responses, commercial proposals, solution pitches, pricing discussions, and contract negotiations.

• Manage contract renewals, MSA negotiations, pricing, margins, utilization, budgets, profitability, and overall commercial health.

• Conduct regular MBRs, QBRs, governance reviews, and account-health discussions with senior stakeholders.

• Partner with Project Managers and Technical Leads to ensure milestones, SLAs, quality standards, budgets, and delivery commitments remain on track.

• Establish and maintain strong delivery governance across RAID logs, RACI frameworks, change control, milestone tracking, risk management, and project health.

• Ensure scope, timeline, and budget changes are formally assessed, documented, approved, and communicated to relevant stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain portfolio-wide account and project health scorecards and review them on a defined cadence.

• Identify delivery, commercial, and relationship risks early and lead appropriate corrective actions.

• Translate complex offerings across Cloud, DevOps, AI, custom software, and technology consulting into relevant business solutions.

• Lead commercial and technical discussions from initial discovery through opportunity development and closure.

• Mentor and develop Project Managers, Technical Leads, and engagement teams while establishing consistent standards for delivery and client management.

• Drive strategic initiatives independently and ensure consistent execution across the account portfolio.

• Maintain strong client retention, satisfaction, profitability, delivery quality, and long-term account growth.

Requirements:

• 9+ years of experience in IT professional services, technology consulting, client engagement, account management, or a related field.

• Proven track record of driving account expansion, upselling, cross-selling, renewals, team extensions, and incremental revenue.

• Strong experience leading SOWs, RFP responses, commercial proposals, solution pitches, and contract discussions through to successful closure.

• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including practical understanding of margins, utilization, budgets, pricing, profitability, and commercial negotiations.

• Demonstrated experience managing strategic accounts and senior client relationships, including VP and C-suite stakeholders.

• Strong experience conducting MBRs, QBRs, governance forums, and executive-level client reviews.

• Proven ability to establish delivery discipline across RAID, RACI, change control, milestones, SLAs, risk management, and project health tracking.

• Strong understanding of IT services and the ability to position Cloud, DevOps, AI, custom software, and digital transformation solutions against business requirements.

• Excellent negotiation, presentation, communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Strong people-management and mentoring capabilities, with experience guiding Project Managers, Technical Leads, and client-facing teams.

• Ability to operate independently, make commercially sound decisions, and manage multiple accounts, opportunities, and priorities simultaneously.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on client outcomes, revenue growth, and sustainable account performance.

• Experience with Salesforce or similar CRM platforms is an advantage.

• Experience selling or managing engagements involving Cloud, DevOps, AI, or digital transformation is highly desirable.

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to balance revenue growth, client satisfaction, delivery quality, and commercial performance.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary of INR 20–55 LPA (₹2,000,000–₹5,500,000 annually) .

• Fully remote working opportunity from India.

• Full-time role with significant ownership and autonomy.

• Opportunity to manage strategic enterprise client relationships and complex IT services engagements.

• Exposure to Cloud, DevOps, AI, custom software, and digital transformation solutions.

• Opportunity to drive account growth, commercial strategy, and new business development.

• Senior-level exposure to executive stakeholders and cross-functional leadership.

• Opportunity to mentor and develop project and engagement teams.

• High-impact role combining commercial leadership, delivery governance, and client relationship management.

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