Senior Manager - PMO

Pall Corporation; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Pall Corporation in Pune, India, seeks a Sr Manager IT PMO to establish and lead the global IT PMO, overseeing delivery governance, portfolio management, and project execution across a complex technology landscape.

The role partners with IT leadership, business stakeholders, and infrastructure teams to drive standardized methodologies, governance, and reporting while maturing the PMO capability globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• 10-15+ years of IT Project Management, PMO leadership, or Portfolio Management.
• Minimum 5 years of people leadership experience managing Project Managers or PMO teams.
• Proven experience leading enterprise PMOs and portfolio governance functions.
• Demonstrated success managing large, complex, global technology portfolios in matrixed global organizations.
• Strong expertise in project governance, portfolio management, resource management, financial management and forecasting, risk and issue management, and project recovery.
• Executive communication skills with the ability to present portfolio status, risks, resource constraints, and key decisions to senior leadership.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with experience developing dashboards, metrics, and management reporting.
• Experience with Project Portfolio Management tools such as Clarity, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Excel/dashboard reporting, Teams, and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, coach, and develop a global team of Project Managers and PMO professionals.
• Establish clear performance expectations and development plans for PMO team members.
• Establish standardized project management methodologies, governance processes, templates, and reporting frameworks.
• Manage the global IT project portfolio and provide visibility into overall health, priorities, capacity, risks, and dependencies.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews with IT leadership and ensure alignment of project investments with business priorities and strategic objectives; ensure projects follow established lifecycle methodologies, governance requirements, and project documentation standards.
• Monitor project performance across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and benefits realization and develop executive-level portfolio dashboards and management reports that provide data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Drive PMO maturity improvements through process optimization, automation, governance KPIs, and adoption of best practices.

Skills

Executive communication

Analytical skills

Dashboard reporting

Project governance

Portfolio management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

MBA

Tools

Clarity

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Excel/dashboard reporting

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper—everyday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improve product quality, minimize emissions and waste, and safeguard health. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Sr Manager IT PMO is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously improving the global IT Project Management Office (PMO). This role manages a team of Project Managers and PMO Analysts responsible for delivery governance, project portfolio management, project execution oversight, reporting, and PMO process excellence.

The Sr Manager IT PMO serves as the operational leader of the PMO, ensuring that projects are governed consistently, portfolios are managed effectively, risks are identified early, and executive stakeholders have accurate visibility into delivery performance. The role partners closely with IT leadership, business stakeholders, application and infrastructure teams to drive successful execution of strategic initiatives while maintaining compliance with established governance standards and methodologies. The position also plays a key role in standing up and maturing the IT PMO capability globally.

This position reports to the Director – ePMO, Governance & Compliance and is part of the Information Technology group located in Pune and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Build, lead, coach, and develop a global team of Project Managers and PMO professionals.
• Establish clear performance expectations and development plans for PMO team members.
• Establish standardized project management methodologies, governance processes, templates, and reporting frameworks.
• Manage the global IT project portfolio and provide visibility into overall health, priorities, capacity, risks, and dependencies.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews with IT leadership and ensure alignment of project investments with business priorities and strategic objective and ensure projects follow established lifecycle methodologies, governance requirements, and project documentation standards.
• Monitor project performance across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and benefits realization and develop executive-level portfolio dashboards and management reports that provide data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Drive PMO maturity improvements through process optimization, automation, governance KPIs, and adoption of best practices.

The Essential Requirements Of The Job Include

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Master's in Business Administration, or related field.
• 10-15+ years of experience in IT Project Management, PMO leadership, or Portfolio Management.
• Minimum 5 years of people leadership experience managing Project Managers or PMO teams.
• Proven experience leading enterprise PMOs and portfolio governance functions.
• Demonstrated success managing large, complex, global technology portfolios in matrixed global organizations.
• Strong expertise in project governance, portfolio management, resource management, financial management and forecasting, risk and issue management, and project recovery.
• Executive communication skills with the ability to present portfolio status, risks, resource constraints, and key decisions to senior leadership.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with experience developing dashboards, metrics, and management reporting.
• Experience with Project Portfolio Management tools such as Clarity, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Excel/dashboard reporting, Teams, and SharePoint.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• MBA preferred.
• PMP (Project Management Professional), PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, SAFe, Scrum, or Agile PM certification.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.