Program Manager-C5-Planning-PMO

TATA Consulting Engineers Limited; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TATA Consulting Engineers Limited is looking for an experienced Program Manager to lead large, strategic projects across India and beyond. The successful candidate will have a minimum of 20 years in project management, with at least 5 years in a similar role. Responsibilities include stakeholder management, creating practices for program oversight, and ensuring project delivery on schedule and budget.

The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably with a Master's in Business Management, and possess PMP or PgMP certifications. This role offers the chance to impact key operational success across various locations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 20 years in managing projects, with 5 years as Program Manager.
• Knowledge of client groups related to program area.

Responsibilities

• Creating structure and practices for the program.
• Ensuring work achieves business strategy outcomes.
• Setting and reviewing objectives across projects.
• Accountable for schedule, budget, and quality.
• Lead sessions for program plan and schedule development.
• Monitor performance and provide feedback to team members.
• Implementation of fiscal practices and controls.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Management

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Program Management Professional (PgMP)

Job description

Purpose & Scope of Position

The Program Manager is responsible for the coordinated management of key, strategic and large projects spread across locations in India or other countries, and in many (most) cases, ongoing operations which are directed toward a common objective. She/He works with constituent Project Managers (who are responsible to the Program Manager for the execution of their project and its impact on the program) to monitor cost, schedule, and technical performance of component projects and operations, while working to ensure the ultimate success of the program. Program Manager is responsible for determining and coordinating the sharing of resources among their constituent projects to the overall benefit of the program. She/He responsible for stakeholder management particularly stakeholders external to the organization.

Experience

• Minimum 20 years in managing projects and at least 5 years as Program Manager in a large multi-location/country
• Must have knowledge of client groups and/or issues related to the program area

Qualification

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in engineering with Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Management is preferred
• Minimum Project management Professional (PMP, USA), Program Management Professional (PgMP®) is preferred

Key Responsibilities

1. Creating both the structure and practices to guide the program and provide senior-level leadership, oversight, and control. Serve as the primary point of contact with BU and Customer Senior, as well as interactions with other government employees and contractors upon customer request.
2. Ensuring that the work effort achieves the outcome specified in the business strategy.
3. Setting and reviewing objectives, coordinating activities across projects.
4. Overseeing the integration and reuse of interim work products and results. Integration activities, negotiating changes in plans, and communicating.
5. Accountable to executive sponsors for schedule, budget, and quality of all program elements.
6. Lead high-level sessions for program plan and schedule development.
7. Acts as the communications conduit to executive sponsors and program steering committee and conducts periodic briefings/status updates.
8. Responsible for overall project delivery (cost, schedule, quality, information, contracts) on multiple project assignments. Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
9. Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.
10. Develop and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) of projects.
11. Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.
12. Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback.
13. Identify, review, or select vendors or consultants to meet project needs.
14. Assess current or future customer needs and priorities through communicating directly with customers, conducting surveys, or other methods.
15. Implementation of specific fiscal practices and controls.
16. Develops and utilizes program-specific procedures for making and reporting expenditures.