Shiv Bhakti Kumar

About Shiv Bhakti Kumar

Program Manager- Experienced Program Manager with a strong background in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery, driving strategic initiatives across cross-functional teams. Skilled in PMO governance, stakeholder engagement, budgeting, and end-to-end project lifecycle management. Proven ability to align business goals with technology solutions, ensuring timely delivery, risk mitigation, and measurable outcomes.Project Management Methodology:1. Agile & Waterfall Methodology.2. Scrum framework.3. Proficient in Requirement Elicitation, Business/Data Analysis.4. Strong Analytical skills, identify problem areas, research issues, and try to provide solutions. Hands of experience on project management M different PM tools: Zoho Projects, MS Projects, Smart Sheets, Sprints, Kanban, Primavera, ERP. Project Activities:1. Effective in prioritizing Project tasks,2. Planning sprints in a systematic and effective way. Resourceful in preparing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).4. User manuals by meticulously mapping each & every process and periodically updating the same.5. Ability to Prioritize requirements based on business knowledge, Common sense & Requirements.Project Management Planning & Control:1. Resource Management.2. Delivery Management.3. Project Reports, Team Coordination & Interaction with different stakeholders.4. Project Management from initialization till closure and post closure hand holding support.Project Management activities:1. Proper Project management as per best project management methodology, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks and assigning team members to various deliverables.2. Overseeing the development of the project and ensuring that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently while upholding the quality Standards.3. Risk Management ( RAID).4. Resource utilization, Project Burndown, Planned Vs actual etc.Budget management & Control:1. Budget Planning, Budget Allocation, Monitoring Expenses, Variance Analysis.2. Adjustments and Control: Based on the analysis of variances, appropriate adjustments and corrective actions are taken to control expenses and bring them in line with the budget.3. Planned vs Actuals, Provisions, Vendor invoice tracking, PO tracking, Accruals.4. Project profitability Analysis, Reports.Negotiation & Risk Management ‐ Ability to manage stakeholder expectations as well as the Product development teams. Resourceful in identifying risks, issues and dependencies, managing them through a log and providing escalations & recommendations where required.

Experience

1. Lead Business Project Manager

   UKG

   Jan 2025 — Present

   Lead Business Project Manager(UKG)1. End-to-End UKG Delivery: Spearheading full-lifecycle implementations of Projects, ensuring seamless transition from discovery and configuration to global go-live and support.2. Strategic Stakeholder Management: Acting as the primary liaison between C-suite executives, HR, and IT to align complex technical roadmaps with overarching business objectives.3. Cross-Functional Leadership: Managing diverse, global project teams and vendor partners to deliver multimillion-dollar digital transformations on time and within budget.4. Process Transformation: Driving business process re-engineering and Change Management initiatives to optimize workforce efficiency, payroll accuracy, and user adoption.5. Risk & Governance: Establishing robust project governance frameworks, proactively mitigating risks, and utilizing data-driven insights (KPIs) to ensure high-quality project outcomes.

Education

• Sub bharti

  MBA, Project Management

• National Inter college PATNA

  Higher schooling, Physics,Chemistry,Maths

  2007 — 2009

• Anna University Chennai

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2010 — 2014