Manager - IT PMO (Contract)

Kanary Staffing; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Part time

Job summary

Kanary Staffing is recruiting for an IT PMO role (C2H) for a leading IT MNC client in Hyderabad. The incumbent will operate hybrid, supporting alliance governance and PMO activities, with 14-16 years of experience required.

Responsibilities include maintaining alliance cadences, governance playbooks, cross-functional coordination, and process optimization across planning cycles, and executive reviews. Strong Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power BI, and Power Platform skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree with 14 years of enterprise PMO or operations experience.
• Proven ability to map, standardize, and govern governance cadences and playbooks.
• Experience leading alliance, channel, or sales operations in complex environments.
• Skilled in multi-timezone collaboration and executive-level storytelling.
• Strong proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power BI, and Power Platform.

Responsibilities

• Maintain alliance operating cadence including planning cycles and leadership reviews.
• Own design and governance of operational playbooks, escalation paths, and standards.
• Act as Operations Lead for Growth Platforms with cross-team coordination.
• Standardize processes with clear roles, timelines, and outputs.
• Manage integrated workplans across multiple workstreams with milestones and owners.
• Oversee structured intake and prioritization for new requests and support.
• Manage governance calendars, agendas, and action logs for leadership forums.
• Define service levels, quality standards, and delivery controls.
• Monitor risks and escalate material matters to leaders.
• Coordinate with Data & Automation, Commercial Analytics, Sales Ops teams.
• Lead continuous improvement with retrospectives and root-cause analysis.

Skills

PMO leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance processes

Go to market strategy

Operations management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Power BI

Power Platform

Job description

Dear Candidate,

One of our leading IT MNC Clients in Hyderabad is looking IT PMO Role on Contract basis.

Role: Alliance Operations Governance & PMO (C2H)

Exp.: 14- 16 Years

Location: Hyderabad

PMO + Stakeholder Management + Advisory + Go to market strategy + Market knowledge + Operations management

Mode of work: Hybrid

Mode of hire: C2H

Contract Duration: 6-8 Months

Interview Mode: Virtual

Notice Period: 15 Days or less

Shift Time: 2 PM to 11 PM

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Growth Platforms leadership in maintaining the Alliance operating cadence, including annual, quarterly, and monthly planning cycles, governance forums, business reviews, and leadership checkpoints.
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for Governance & PMO processes and own the design, documentation, maintenance, and governance of operational playbooks, escalation pathways, and operating standards across planning, incentives, and performance-tracking cycles.
• Act as the Operations Lead for the Growth Platforms program, serving as the primary point of contact for operational matters and stakeholder coordination.
• Standardize and optimize processes by clarifying roles, handoffs, timelines, templates, approval points, quality checks, and required outputs.
• Independently manage integrated workplans across multiple workstreams, documenting priorities, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
• Establish and administer a structured intake and prioritization process for new requests, initiatives, and operational support needs.
• Manage the governance calendar, meeting agendas, pre-reads, action and decision logs, and follow-up activities for key leadership and operating forums.
• Define service levels, quality standards, delivery controls, and quality assurance processes for recurring Governance & PMO activities and deliverables.
• Monitor risks, issues, assumptions, and unresolved bottlenecks; ensure that owners and mitigation actions are identified, and escalation material matters to the appropriate leader.
• Lead and coordinate US team members across Data & Automation, Commercial Analytics, and Sales Executive and Resell Operations to align inputs, timelines, dependencies, and delivery status.
• Lead continuous improvement activities, including process reviews, retrospectives, lessons learned, root-cause analysis, and implementation tracking; provide concise, executive-ready updates on progress and outcomes.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelors or master’s degree, with 14 years of experience in enterprise PMO, transformation offices, business operations, sales or alliance operations, portfolio management, process excellence, or consulting delivery.
• Experience in alliance, channel, sales operations, technology-partner, professional services, or consulting environments is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in mapping and standardizing processes across incentives, performance management, commercial operations, or comparable enterprise functions.
• Demonstrated ability to independently run planning and governance cadences across multiple workstreams, not merely coordinate meetings or maintain schedules.
• Strong experience managing annual, quarterly, and monthly planning cycles, executive business reviews, governance forums, and leadership checkpoints.
• Proven ability to create, implement, and govern operational playbooks, standard operating procedures, templates, and delivery controls.
• Experience managing structured intake and prioritization processes, integrated workplans, dependencies, decision logs, and escalation processes.
• Experience defining service levels, quality standards, operating metrics, and quality-assurance practices.
• Track record of leading continuous improvement initiatives, including process reviews, retrospectives, lessons learned, root-cause analysis, and implementation tracking.
• Experience coordinating delivery across specialist teams, such as Data & Automation, Commercial Analytics, Sales Operations, and General Operations.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and presentation skills, with the ability to produce concise, decision-oriented materials.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, SharePoint, workflow tools, Power BI, and Microsoft Power Platform.
• Experience coordinating global teams and stakeholders across multiple time zones.