Assistant Project Manager

Guinness; Bengaluru; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Guinness, a world‑leading premium drinks company, seeks an Assistant Project Manager to support Global Business Operations. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, track project progress, and help ensure on‑time, on‑budget delivery of transformation initiatives.

You will use MS Project, SharePoint, and Power BI to manage schedules, governance reports, and stakeholder communications, while fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture across locations.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and projects.
• Strong command of PM tools (MS Project, SharePoint, Power BI).
• Excellent written and verbal communication and organization.

Responsibilities

• Track project progress, schedules, risks, and issues using PM tools.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and maintain documentation.
• Prepare governance reports and support post-implementation reviews.
• Allocate resources to ensure timely project delivery.
• Serve as liaison between project team and customers throughout the life cycle.

Skills

MS Project

SharePoint

Power BI

Tableau

Communication

Organization

Tools

Project Place Pro

Planview

MS Office Suite

Job description

Job Description : Job Title - Assistant Project Manager

About Us: With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

About the Function:

Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila. Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture.

About the Role

Diageo Global Business Operation (GBO), a multi-functional global shared services function established to liberate and equip markets to deliver the Diageo Performance Ambition. This is achieved through: The delivery of extraordinary end to end process execution; Generating performance enhancing insights from data; Providing CPG leading digital capabilities and solutions; Under-pinned by secure and stable operations and putting customers and consumers at the heart of everything we do. GBO is looking to hire a Senior Manager who will be part of the central Change and Transformation function for GBO, Experienced on Organizational change and project management transformation initiatives while ensuring projects deliver on time and achieve sustainable adoption across the business. The Organizational Change and Project Manager will lead end to end projects involving structural process shifts. Integrate Project management rigor with change methodologies like ADKAR to align customers, mitigate risks and embed new ways of working. Success will hinge on balancing timelines/ budgets with employee readiness and long term benefits realizations.

Core Responsibilities

• Track project progress, schedules, risks, and issues using tools like MS Project and SharePoint; update portfolios and report to customer
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, lead documentation (charters, status reports, meeting minutes), and facilitate compliance with PM methodologies
• Prepare governance reports, drive meetings, and supervise post-implementation outcomes for continuous improvement
• Coordinate the allocation of project resources to ensure the project team has what’s needed at the right time
• Be the liaison between the project team and project customers throughout the project life cycle

Skills required

• Be the liaison between the project team and project customers throughout the project life cycle
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office Suite (Project, Excel, Visio), PPM tools like Project place pro, plan view, and SharePoint administration
• Excellent organizational, time management, and multitasking abilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with data analysis or reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Notion)

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Worker Type :Regular Primary Location:Bangalore Karle Town SEZ Additional Locations : Job Posting Start Date : 2026-02-18

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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