Lead PMO

MassMutual India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MassMutual India is seeking a Project Manager in Hyderabad to lead end-to-end delivery of assigned projects, coordinating with platform owners, engineers, and business stakeholders. You will develop detailed project plans, monitor milestones, and ensure delivery within scope, time, and budget.

The role emphasizes Agile/Hybrid delivery, strong communication, and cross-functional collaboration, with accountability for project success and continuous process improvement.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in project management or delivery roles.
• Experience delivering technology or enterprise platform initiatives.
• Experience working in cross-functional, matrixed environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, or Waterfall delivery models.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams and business stakeholders to gather and refine requirements.
• Delivery-focused with a can-do attitude in challenging environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of assigned projects or workstreams, from initiation through completion.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and dependency tracking.
• Ensure delivery against defined scope, timeline, budget, and quality expectations.
• Partner with platform owners, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and execution expectations.
• Facilitate project-level forums including stand-ups, status reviews, and retrospectives.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for assigned projects.
• Identify, track, and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Proactively elevate concerns and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate Daily Agile ceremonies to enhance team engagement and alignment; Optimize the Product Backlog and Improve the team velocity, cycle time, organize and prioritize the Product backlog and implement team building activities.
• Enhance the Team productivity by measuring the Sprint scope changes, defect resolution, throughput and Say to Do ratio for the Team.
• Support program-level and portfolio-level reporting as required.
• Partner with enablement and communications leads to support adoption activities tied to project delivery.
• Coordinate readiness activities, training inputs, and deployment milestones.
• Contribute to improvements in project delivery practices, tooling, and templates.
• Apply lessons learned to improve execution efficiency and predictability.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile delivery

Waterfall delivery

Communication skills

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Hyderabad

Experience

• 6- 10 years of experience in project management or delivery roles.
• Experience delivering technology or enterprise platform initiatives.
• Experience working in cross‑functional, matrixed environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, or Waterfall delivery models.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams and business stakeholders to gather and refine requirements.
• Delivery-focused with a can-do attitude in challenging environments.

Project Delivery & Execution

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of assigned projects or workstreams, from initiation through completion.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and dependency tracking.
• Ensure delivery against defined scope, timeline, budget, and quality expectations.

Stakeholder & Team Collaboration

• Partner with platform owners, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and execution expectations.
• Facilitate project‑level forums including stand‑ups, status reviews, and retrospectives.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for assigned projects.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Identify, track, and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Proactively elevate concerns and recommend mitigation strategies.

Agile Delivery & Metrics

• Facilitate Daily Agile ceremonies to enhance team engagement and alignment; Optimize the Product Backlog and Improve the team velocity, cycle time, organize and prioritize the Product backlog and implement team building activities.
• Enhance the Team productivity by measuring the Sprint scope changes, defect resolution, throughput and Say to Do ratio for the Team.
• Support program‑level and portfolio‑level reporting as required.

Change & Adoption Support

• Partner with enablement and communications leads to support adoption activities tied to project delivery.
• Coordinate readiness activities, training inputs, and deployment milestones.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to improvements in project delivery practices, tooling, and templates.
• Apply lessons learned to improve execution efficiency and predictability.