Senior Project Management Business Partner

Airbus Group India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,200,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office possible

Flexible hours

Mentoring programs

Training opportunities

Job summary

Airbus India Private Limited is seeking a Senior Project Management Business Partner (PMBP) for the Single Aisle Programme. You will manage project schedules, risks, and performance dashboards within a cross-functional team, ensuring alignment with Airbus PM standards and governance.

This is a site-based role with hybrid working options in Bengaluru. The ideal candidate has 3–5+ years in project management, strong data analytics, and PMI/PMP certification, with English fluency and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management
• 3 to 5+ years in project management
• Fluent English and strong stakeholder engagement
• PM certification (PMI / PMP) mandatory
• Agile/SAFe certifications valued

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous project management support across complex initiatives
• Maintain project schedules, budgets, and risk profiles
• Develop and maintain integrated PM dashboards and reports
• Ensure governance, risk tracking, and lessons learned capture
• Identify opportunities for automation and AI-assisted summaries
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and stakeholders

Job description

Senior Project Management Business Partner For Single Aisle Programme Job Description

Shape the Future of Airbus with Us! By joining the global Airbus BC (Cross-Programme) organization as a founding member of the newly created Airbus PM Office in India , you will play a pivotal role in operating projects, programmes, portfolios, and performance management to enable efficient decision-making and execution with a high level of PM standard. We are looking for passionate talent, whether you want to develop your Project Management skills toward seniority or are an experienced PM Expert ready to mentor and innovate , to help us reshape the future of Aircraft programmes through PM excellence . Driven by an entrepreneurial mindset and our Vision 2028 ambition to build an autonomous, high-performing PM Team in India, our mission rests on three core pillars: Driving PM Excellence & Global Competitiveness : Enabling strategic impact and operational standards locally. Delivering Smart PM Digital Ecosystem: Deploying data-driven solutions and optimizing cost structures. Ensuring Seamless PMBP Experience & Beyond: Simplifying ways of working across Airbus India and broader BC activities.

About the Role

Are you passionate about turning project data into strategic business value? In this role, you will provide autonomous project management support across complex initiatives. By delivering and analyzing integrated schedules, budgets, and risk profiles, you will deliver predictive performance insights that optimize project delivery. The Project Management Business Partner (PMBP) is an execution-focused PM specialist embedded within project teams to drive day-to-day project performance. Accountable for maintaining project schedule baselines, generating real-time performance dashboards, tracking risks, and enforcing standardized PM methods, the PMBP bridges technical project execution with strategic business objectives.

Key Accountabilities & Main Responsibilities

• Project Execution & Operational Support: Provide expert project management support across complex initiatives to secure baseline execution: daily project schedule structures, resource loading, and cost monitoring in accordance with Airbus PM standards (e.g., MP.PP.01/02). Maintain Top-Down / Bottom-Up planning synchronization within single-source-of-truth systems. Track milestone maturity, quality gates, and deliverables against time, cost, quality, and performance target.
• Performance Management & Data Analytics: Define, develop, and maintain integrated PM dashboards and project status reports for internal stakeholders. Leverage data analytics to perform data sanity checks, monitor planning adherence, and proactively flag potential project delays before they occur. Secure Planisware data integrity as the Single Source of Truth.
• Core PM Governance & Risk Tracking: Facilitate project routines, steering meetings, risk reviews, and decision-making workshops. Execute Risk & Opportunity management processes (ARM), log mitigation action plans, and maintain project registers. Support the capture of lessons learned and process improvement feedback loops.
• Process Standardization & AI Adoption: Promote a 'Digital-First' mindset by actively identifying repetitive PM tasks for automation. Utilize AI tools to summarize technical alignment meetings, draft executive status updates, and track operational action items.
• Dimensions Team Leadership: Individual contributor role; coordinates project work packages, cross-functional contributors, and local subcontractor task units.
• Stakeholder Network: Direct operational interfaces with Project Leaders, Engineers, Domain Experts and Transnational Project Contributors.
• Scope: Dedicated support to specific project work packages or domain portfolios.

Desired skills and qualifications

• Educated to a Degree level in Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management, or an equivalent field.
• Solid professional experience 3 to 5+ years in applied project management across traditional Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Proven experience with enterprise scheduling tools for baseline control, resource planning, and schedule tracking.
• Proficiency in analyzing operational data using advanced platforms and dedicated dashboarding tools.
• Technical background in : Industrial project management
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills with fluent English language Proficiency.
• Certifications : PM Certification (Iron / Bronze), PMI or PMP is mandatory.
• Agile/SAFe certifications are highly valued.
• Competencies : PM Processes, Methods & Tools (Autonomous) PM Operations (Autonomous) Project Management Fundamentals (Autonomous) Integrative Project Planning (Autonomous) Risk & Opportunity Management Execution (Autonomous) Stakeholder Management (Autonomous)
• Soft Skills : High adaptability, structured thinking, proactive problem-solving, active listening, and strong workshop facilitation capabilities.
• Languages : Fluent / Negotiation level English (mandatory). German, French is a plus.

Technical Stack & Tooling

• Core PM Workplace: Planisware (E7 / Enterprise)
• Zoho Data Analytics & Ecosystem: Palantir (Skywise)
• Qlik Sense Risk & Opportunities: ARM (Active Risk Manager)
• Collaboration & Automation: Google Workspace, Gemini AI

Your Benefits

• Challenging tasks and unique high-tech products and services
• Good work-life balance in a big international company
• Actively lived values 'We are one', diversity really matters
• On-the-job trainings for personal development and technical skills
• Mentoring programmes
• Flexible working hours and working time compensation
• Home office is possible
• Compatibility of family and career
• Attractive salary and company benefits

Company

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company: Airbus India Private Limited

Employment Type: Permanent

Your Location Site-based position with hybrid working options

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