Senior Program Manager

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Senior Program Manager Bangalore , Karnataka

Job Spec

Job Title: Programme Manager

Type/Term: Permanent, Unlimited

Department : COO

Reporting to : COO, India

Role Purpose

The Programme Manager will drive the One India transformation programme workstreams and implement a Project Management Office (PMO) to govern and monitor all project and program delivery within the India organization.

Main responsibilities of this PMO will include management of several projects related to the One India transformation initiative. Additionally, it will include ownership and evolution of project delivery ways of working; provision of project/program templates and processes including scoping, planning, delivery, tracking, risk mitigation, change management, and business reporting; hiring, line management, training, and career development of Project Managers across the Technology organization; project/program performance analysis and improvement across KPIs (cost, quality, time, and value realization); submission of all requested projects and programs into a prioritization review in partnership with various global stakeholders and the India Executive and Management teams.

Key Role Accountabilities

• Drive the cross-departmental planning efforts for the One India programme workstreams

• Set up One India project teams; create appropriate governance, project tracking, and reporting; monitor the programme s progress, track and resolve risks and issues and initiate appropriate corrective actions.

• Support various other transformational projects for the India executive team under the areas of production, finance, technology, administration and HR.

• Coordinate with the Production Services PMO in US and UK to define and operate in standard project management methodologies.

• Review all project types within the India organization to identify the various project management tools (ie Jira, Confluence, MS Project, MS Teams, ServiceNow, etc), templates, processes, tracking data, and ways of working in place. This includes a gap analysis where these capabilities are absent, out-of-date, and or otherwise unfit for purpose.

• Develop a written recommendation and change-management timeline for best-fit project/program management tools and processes, balancing the need to unify and consolidate (for the benefit of transparency, efficiency, executive oversight, and complexity-reduction) with the need to provide fit-for-purpose project controls appropriate to each project-type and team/location composition.

Skills and knowledge

• Proven track record for planning, executing, controlling and closing large projects/programs (teams of 5-25 people or more) and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously without supervision

• Experience of project management using AGILE or PRINCE2 methodology (or equivalent) for medium to large sized projects

• Experience of managing a PMO office

• Training and coaching of Project Managers and PMO staff

• Knowledgeable and experienced in efficient Change Management methods

• Experienced in evaluating Project Management Maturity (eg PMI PMMM)

• Strong skills in creating and maintaining project and program plans, including risks, actions,

• issues, dependencies

• Highly efficient in resource planning and tasks assignment

• Knowledge of benefits and dependency mapping, risk management and resource planning

• Strong line management and team leader experience

• Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations

• Diplomatic ability to influence others and create change at all levels of the business

• Strong ability to competently mediate disagreements and negotiate agreeable resolutions

• Experience of program and project level financial management

• Experience of defining and delivering benefits realization for projects and programs

Specific Competencies

• At least 10-15 years of relevant project management or PMO management experience.

• PMI or PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner, or equivalently qualified in similar project management methodologies

• Support Office (BCS Professional Certification (formerly ISEB) PPSO); Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (APMG - P30 ); Managing Successful Programmes (MSP ); Management of Risk (M_o_R ); Management of Value (MoV ) Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3 ), or other PMO qualification

• Knowledge of Animation or Visual Effects production, pipeline, workflow, and/or technology is an asset but not essential

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Keyskills :
risk mitigationbudgetingprogram managementmanagementvisual effectsproject teamsgap analysisagileproject management officemultiple projects simultaneouslyenvironmental impact assessmentdeliveryms projectpmo managementproject trackingproject