The ideal candidate should have experience in managing a project from start to finish and be self motivated and a self starter.
Location: Mumbai or Pune, India
Work Model: Work from Office
Department: Project Management Office (PMO) / Customer Delivery
Reporting To: Head of PMO / Senior Director – Project Management
Experience: 10–15 years, including significant experience managing enterprise software, SaaS, integration, digital transformation, or life-sciences technology programs
Employment Type: Full-Time
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Project and Program Delivery
- Customer Engagement and Stakeholder Management
- Technical and Integration Delivery Management
- Life-Sciences, Laboratory, and GxP Delivery
- Project Governance and PMO Compliance
- Scope, Change, Commercial, and Financial Management
- Risk, Issue, Dependency, and Escalation Management
- Resource and Cross-Functional Leadership
- AI-Enabled Project Management
Ideal Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 10–15 years of overall professional experience.
- Minimum 7–10 years of project or program management experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex enterprise software, SaaS, systems-integration, digital-transformation, laboratory-informatics, or technology implementation projects.
- Proven experience managing customer-facing projects involving global stakeholders and distributed delivery teams.
- Strong understanding of project-management disciplines, including:
- Scope management
- Schedule management
- Resource management
- Financial management
- Risk and issue management
- Quality management
- Stakeholder management
- Change management
- Governance and reporting
- Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Hybrid, and stage-gate delivery methodologies.
- Experience using project and work-management tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Planner, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, and collaboration platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to develop executive-quality project reports, dashboards, governance presentations, and written communications.
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, laboratory users, business stakeholders, quality teams, and executive leadership.
- Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, complex dependencies, and high-pressure delivery situations.
- Practical experience using generative AI, enterprise AI assistants, or AI-enabled productivity tools.
Key Competency
- Customer-centric leadership
- End-to-end ownership and accountability
- Executive presence
- Strong business and commercial acumen
- Technical curiosity
- Scientific and laboratory-domain awareness
- Structured planning and execution
- Proactive risk management
- Clear and concise communication
- Strong facilitation and negotiation
- Data-driven decision-making
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Cross-functional leadership
- High attention to detail
- Adaptability and resilience
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Responsible and practical adoption of AI
- Ability to balance customer advocacy with scope, delivery, and commercial discipline
