Program Manager I

Eaton Corporation; Hadapsar; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in India seeks a senior program leader to drive global ESS programs from requirements to launch, coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering, supply chain and finance. You will establish baselines, govern portfolio processes and deliver executive dashboards for leadership visibility.

Responsibilities include developing integrated plans, managing risks, and delivering on strategic milestones within a complex multi-year program portfolio.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in complex engineering, product development, or program management.
• Experience with portfolio governance and cross-functional leadership.
• Strong ability to develop business cases and drive program plans.
• Proficiency with digital workflow, analytics and executive dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more major strategic ESS programs from requirements to launch.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans covering scope, schedule and cost.
• Lead global cross-functional teams across product management, engineering, operations and more.
• Establish baselines with stakeholders including benefits, costs and milestones.
• Drive risk identification, mitigation and execution readiness.

Skills

Global program mgmt

Portfolio mgmt

Business-case dev

Integrated planning

Stage-gate prod-dev

PROLaunch

ProPM

Decision-gate governance

Portfolio reviews

Risk mgmt

Waterline & roadmap

Resource planning

Financial & schedule analysis

Portfolio analytics

Executive dashboards

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

MS Project

JIRA

JAMA

Confluence

PMP

PgMP

PfMP

CCPM

Agile/CSM

Education

Engineering degree (B.E./B.Tech./M.Tech.)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

MS Project

JIRA

JAMA

Confluence

Job description

Qualifications:

B.E. / B.Tech. / M.Tech. or equivalent degree in engineering, business, operations or a related field
10+ years of experience in complex engineering, product-development, NPI, program-management or portfolio/PMO roles

Skills:

Global program and portfolio management; business-case development; integrated planning; stage-gate product-development processes; PROLaunch, ProPM, decision-gate and portfolio-review governance; risk and issue management; waterline and roadmap management; resource and capacity planning; financial and schedule analysis; portfolio analytics; executive dashboards; digital workflow and automation. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Microsoft Project and collaboration/work-management platforms such as JIRA, JAMA and Confluence. PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CCPM or Agile/CSM certification is preferred.
Cross-functional leadership; influencing without authority; executive communication; business acumen; analytical thinking; ownership and accountability; conflict resolution; decision making; change leadership; collaboration across cultures and geographies; strong drive for results.

• "Lead one or more major strategic, repeater, regional or global ESS programs from requirements definition and planning through development, validation, industrialization and launch.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans covering scope, schedule, cost, resources, milestones, risks, dependencies and launch readiness.
• Lead global cross-functional teams across product management, engineering, operations, sourcing, quality, finance, commercial and other functions; drive accountability for commitments and deliverables.
• Establish business-case baselines with key stakeholders, including benefits, cost, assumptions, risks and opportunities, milestones and implementation scenarios; clearly articulate financial and business impacts.
• Lead program reviews, decision-gate preparation and executive communication; elevate major constraints and decisions requiring leadership support.
• Drive risk identification, mitigation and recovery planning when performance deviates from the approved baseline.
• Establish and maintain an integrated master view of the ESS program portfolio, including active and planned strategic, NPI and NTI programs.
• Coordinate ESS portfolio roadmaps, waterline health, prioritization and the ESS-level ProPM data and portfolio-review rhythm.
• Consolidate program information into leadership‑ready views covering portfolio health, milestones, gates, investment, resource demand, risks, dependencies and strategic exceptions.
• Support fact‑based start, stop, continue and prioritization decisions; track leadership decisions and resulting actions.
• Support ESS capacity‑versus‑demand governance, resource forecasting, forecast‑versus‑actual analysis and identification of cross‑program constraints.
• Drive consistent use of standard program plans, schedules, risk‑management methods, PROLaunch documentation and executive dashboards.
• Support deployment and adoption of ProPM, PROLaunch, CCPM and ProLaunch Studio practices, as applicable.
• Develop portfolio analytics and dashboards that improve visibility to schedule, gate performance, resources, risks, investment, launch readiness and portfolio trends.
• Automate repetitive program and portfolio reporting and develop practical digital and AI‑enabled program‑management use cases.
• Capture lessons learned, share best practices and lead continuous‑improvement actions that improve execution predictability and reduce low‑value administrative work."