PMO Sr. Program Manager

Jabil; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jabil in Maharashtra, India, seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead strategic, enterprise-level initiatives across regions. You will guide multi-functional teams, manage budgets, timelines and KPI-driven outcomes while fostering strong customer and internal relationships.

Role requires PMP certification, a Bachelor’s degree (Masters preferred), and at least 8 years of experience in project management or regulated industries. Travel across regions may be required.

Qualifications

• PMP certification or equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in project management or related discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Ensures all program requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution.
• Builds teams to address the project goals and objectives for multiple and/or enterprise-level projects.
• Communicates project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives.
• Serves as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsor(s).
• Monitors projects' KPI and manages work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
• Forecasts project budget and labor needs for current and future site needs.

Skills

Program management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

Celoxis

Smartsheets

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Program Manager will facilitate and lead strategic initiatives for large multi-faceted projects which may be customer/division specific or company-wide. Provides management and guidance to multi-functional project teams and/or other Project or Program Managers. Manages and enhances customer relationships. Provides full accountability for project budgets, schedules, project management, and performance requirements for enterprise level projects.

• Ensures all program requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution.
• Builds teams to address the project goals and objectives for multiple and/or enterprise-level projects.
• Collaborates with customer (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance stages.
• Aligns the program team to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the enterprise project.
• Reviews project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators assigned to projects.
• Provides guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goal and corporate initiatives.
• Communicates project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives.
• Serves as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsor(s).
• Devises creative solutions to critical customer and user needs.
• Manages development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) or metrics.
• Monitors projects' Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manages the work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
• Obtains and summarizes current project information and milestone status versus project performance baseline.
• Drives project/program tasks to completion in accordance with the project schedule.
• Coordinates the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks.
• Manages resource capacity and time tracking allocated to enterprise-level project.
• Performs Financial Management and analysis of costs for enterprise-level projects and programs including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER's) travel, training, resources allocation and other project related costs.
• Forecasts project budget and labor needs for current and future site needs.
• Remains accountable for overall program success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management.
• Holds team accountable for individual and team results.
• Balances the cost, schedule and time-frames against the enterprise level project requirements.
• Reports project status, issues and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results.
• Provides leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement.
• Recognizes potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solutions.
• Identifies best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e. modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems).
• Provides key stakeholders with regular project performance status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions (if required).
• Participates in the exchange of ideas and information within the department and with other Jabil facilities to ensure best practices are shared throughout the company.
• Drives continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management.
• Demonstrates a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority.
• Coaches others through difficult decision making situations.
• Designs and facilitates training related to implementation of enterprise initiatives.
• Engages and collaborates with customers within Jabil to obtain greater understanding of customer needs.
• Drives relevant, concise and effective communication through a variety of mediums.
• Designs clear and consistent messages for a variety of diverse audiences, ensuring relevance and effectiveness of delivery.
• Works closely with communications, stakeholders , and management to stay informed of important company information to evaluate and measure program effectiveness and impact on the business.
• Complies with and follows all procedures within the company security policy.
• Leads teams across different regions and time zones.
• Travels to different regions depending on program requirements.
• Identifies and understand interdependencies across multiple sites and functional areas.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
  

Job Summary

The Senior Program Manager will facilitate and lead strategic initiatives for large multi-faceted projects which may be customer/division specific or company-wide. Provides management and guidance to multi-functional project teams and/or other Project or Program Managers. Manages and enhances customer relationships. Provides full accountability for project budgets, schedules, project management, and performance requirements for enterprise level projects.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Ensures all program requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution.
• Builds teams to address the project goals and objectives for multiple and/or enterprise-level projects.
• Collaborates with customer (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance stages.
• Aligns the program team to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the enterprise project.
• Reviews project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators assigned to projects.
• Provides guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goal and corporate initiatives.
• Communicates project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives.
• Serves as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsor(s).
• Devises creative solutions to critical customer and user needs.
• Manages development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) or metrics.
• Monitors projects' Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manages the work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
• Obtains and summarizes current project information and milestone status versus project performance baseline.
• Drives project/program tasks to completion in accordance with the project schedule.
• Coordinates the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks.
• Manages resource capacity and time tracking allocated to enterprise-level project.
• Performs Financial Management and analysis of costs for enterprise-level projects and programs including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER's) travel, training, resources allocation and other project related costs.
• Forecasts project budget and labor needs for current and future site needs.
• Remains accountable for overall program success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management.
• Holds team accountable for individual and team results.
• Balances the cost, schedule and time-frames against the enterprise level project requirements.
• Reports project status, issues and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results.
• Provides leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement.
• Recognizes potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solutions.
• Identifies best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e. modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems).
• Provides key stakeholders with regular project performance status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions (if required).
• Participates in the exchange of ideas and information within the department and with other Jabil facilities to ensure best practices are shared throughout the company.
• Drives continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management.
• Demonstrates a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority.
• Coaches others through difficult decision making situations.
• Designs and facilitates training related to implementation of enterprise initiatives.
• Engages and collaborates with customers within Jabil to obtain greater understanding of customer needs.
• Drives relevant, concise and effective communication through a variety of mediums.
• Designs clear and consistent messages for a variety of diverse audiences, ensuring relevance and effectiveness of delivery.
• Works closely with communications, stakeholders , and management to stay informed of important company information to evaluate and measure program effectiveness and impact on the business.
• Complies with and follows all procedures within the company security policy.
• Leads teams across different regions and time zones.
• Travels to different regions depending on program requirements.
• Identifies and understand interdependencies across multiple sites and functional areas.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
  

Job Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent required
• Must be adept at navigating the diversified landscape with respect to country cultures, company divisions and internal hierarchies
• Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and e-mail skills required
• Proficiency in use of project management software (Microsoft Project, Celoxis, Smartsheets, etc) is required

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, Masters Degree Preferred
• Minimum of 8 years work-related experience required in project management or related discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years work-related experience in regulated industries.