Manager Projects

WeWork India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

WeWork India is seeking a PMO Manager to build and run the programme management function for large-scale commercial fit-out projects across India. This PMO sits above project managers, defining governance, standards, templates, and reporting cadences to give leadership visibility over a portfolio of projects rather than managing individual sites.

The ideal candidate has a strong civil engineering background and hands-on project delivery, with experience establishing or running a PMO, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with knowledge of MEP; NICMAR/I PMP or PRINCE2 preferred.
• 8 years of experience in project/programme management for large-scale fit-out or capital improvement projects, preferably in commercial real estate construction.
• Experience setting up or running a PMO function — governance design, portfolio tracking, and standardized reporting.
• Ability to design and enforce processes at scale, separate from on-site management duties.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to engage senior leadership on portfolio-level trade-offs and risks.
• Proficiency with project management tools (MS Project, Primavera, or similar) and reporting dashboards.
• Solid knowledge of construction methodologies, materials, and industry best practices.
• Willingness to travel across India to project sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own the PMO framework — standardized templates, planning methodology, and reporting structures used portfolio-wide.
• Build and maintain a portfolio-level view of all active projects — timelines, budgets, resourcing, status.
• Identify portfolio-wide risks, bottlenecks, and resourcing conflicts and drive corrective action with project managers.
• Lead prioritization and resource allocation decisions across the portfolio.
• Establish budget governance standards and cost-tracking frameworks across projects; manage spend within each project
• Consolidate expenditure and performance data into leadership-ready reports and flag deviations
• Coordinate with external consultants, government agencies, regulatory bodies, and communities on compliance matters across projects
• Define quality standards, checklists, and audit protocols; ensure PMO compliance across the portfolio.

Skills

Civil Engineering

PMO Experience

PMO Governance

Process Design

Stakeholder Management

MS Project

Primavera

Construction Knowledge

Willingness to Travel

Education

Bachelors in Civil Engineering

NICMAR/PRINCE2/PMP

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Reporting Dashboards

Job description

Job Description:

About us

Launched in 2017, WeWork India is one of India’s leading premium flexible workspace operators - GPTW certified (Nov 2024 – Nov 2025, Dec 2025 – Dec 2026). WeWork India has been the largest operator by total revenue for the past three fiscal years. Since its inception, WeWork India has expanded across 8 cities in Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad, with 76 operational centres spanning 8.2 million square feet (as of December 2025). WeWork India has played a significant role in the growth of the flexible workspace sector and contributed to the evolution of its products and services, providing customized and curated solutions for various office space needs.

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About Job

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced PMO Manager to build and run the programme management function for large-scale commercial fit-out projects across various locations in India. This is not a site-execution role — the PMO Manager does not run individual project sites, but instead designs and owns the governance layer that sits above them: the standards, processes, tracking systems, and reporting cadences that give leadership visibility and control across a portfolio of projects being delivered by individual project managers. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in civil engineering and hands-on project delivery experience, which they now apply to building the systems that make delivery consistent and predictable at scale, rather than to running a single project themselves. The role requires working closely with the physical group comprising architects, designers, procurement, community, sales, and facility teams, to ensure every project manager is working to the same standards, timelines are realistic and tracked consistently, and issues are escalated and resolved before they become portfolio-level risks.

Skills & Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with sound knowledge of MEP services. Post Graduation in NICMAR I PMP or PRINCE2 certification preferred.
• 8 years of experience in project/programme management for large-scale fit-out and capital improvement projects, preferably in commercial real estate construction, including some experience operating at a portfolio or PMO level (not solely single-project execution).
• Demonstrated experience setting up or running a PMO function — governance design, portfolio tracking, resource planning, and standardized reporting
• Strong ability to design and enforce process at scale, distinct from hands-on site management skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage senior leadership on portfolio-level trade-offs and risks
• Proficiency in project/programme management tools (MS Project, Primavera, or similar) and reporting/dashboarding tools.
• Sound knowledge of construction methodologies, materials, and industry best practices.
• Ability to travel as required to various project sites across India.

Responsibilities

Programme Governance and Portfolio Planning (not site execution)

• Design, implement, and own the PMO framework — standardized templates, planning methodology, and reporting structures — used by all project managers across the portfolio; the PMO Manager sets and enforces the standard rather than executing against it on any single project.
• Build and maintain a portfolio-level view of all active projects — timelines, budgets, resourcing, and status — by consolidating inputs from individual project managers, not by directly managing project tasks.
• Identify portfolio-wide risks, bottlenecks, and resourcing conflicts across projects, and work with respective project managers to drive corrective action; project managers retain ownership of onsite delivery decisions
• Lead prioritization and resource allocation decisions across the portfolio based on business needs, escalating trade-offs to leadership where required.

Budget and Performance Oversight

• Establish budget governance standards and cost-tracking frameworks to be applied consistently across projects; individual project managers remain responsible for managing spend within their own project
• Consolidate expenditure and performance data across the portfolio into leadership-ready reporting, and flag deviations for follow-up.
• Identify recurring cost or efficiency issues across multiple projects and drive process-level fixes, as distinct from one-off decisions on a single site.

Stakeholder Communication and Reporting

• Act as the central point of contact for portfolio-level updates, consolidating status across projects for internal and external stakeholders — project-specific stakeholder management remains with the respective project manager.
• Own and run governance forums (steering committees, portfolio reviews) that create visibility and accountability across all projects.
• Coordinate with external consultants, government agencies, regulatory bodies, and local communities on compliance matters that affect the portfolio or require standardized handling across projects.

Quality and Process Compliance

• Define quality standards, checklists, and audit protocols to be applied uniformly across all projects; execution of quality checks on-site remains with individual project managers.
• Ensure the PMO framework itself is compliant with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, and that it enforces compliance across the portfolio
• Conduct periodic audits of project execution against PMO standards and drive corrective action where a project deviates from process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

WeWork India is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees and members. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to embody our values and all aspects of employment including the decisions to hire and promote, are based on merit, competence, performance and business needs.

Our total rewards philosophy is aimed at providing compensation that is competitive, performance linked and helps us attract and retain the talent we need to drive our business forward and serve our members. As part of WeWork India, our commitment to you is that you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration, flexibility and inclusion.

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