Senior Project Manager, Technical Project Management

Cencora; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora in India is hiring a seasoned IT project manager / Scrum Master to drive large-scale programs across engineering, product, data, and business teams. The role emphasizes governance, risk management, agile leadership, and stakeholder communication, with a focus on delivering executive-ready status reports and robust delivery dashboards.

Candidates should have PMP or PMI-ACP and 4+ years in program management, plus 12-16 years IT experience, and familiarity with ALM tools like Jira or Azure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 12-16 years IT experience with 4+ years in technical/project management, and 1+ year as Scrum Master/RTE.
• PMI-PMP or PMI-ACP or agile certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops integrated program plans with milestones, schedules, risk registers, and governance routines to maintain delivery visibility and stakeholder alignment.
• Coordinates cross-functional dependencies across engineering, product, data, and business teams to resolve blockers and maintain program momentum.
• Delivers program risks and issues by applying structured escalation frameworks and facilitating decision-making with appropriate stakeholder involvement.
• Produces executive-ready program status reporting, delivery dashboards, and decision briefings that communicate progress, risks, and required actions.
• Drives improvements to project management practices, delivery frameworks, and program governance standards to improve execution quality and consistency.
• Guides less experienced project managers on planning methods, risk management, and stakeholder communication practices.
• Drives agile practices and fosters trust, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement through conducting healthy Agile ceremonies that include backlog refinement, planning, iteration reviews and retrospectives.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Leverage metrics to assist delivery, enable transparency and optimize the iterative / incremental development process

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Relationship building

Communication

Presentation skills

Analytical thinking

Mathematical skills

Organizational skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/BA

Tools

Jira / Azure DevOps

Advanced Excel

ServiceNow (nice to have)

Job description

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Job Details

Job Description

• Develops integrated program plans, milestone schedules, risk registers, and governance routines that maintain delivery visibility and stakeholder alignment.
• Coordinates cross-functional dependencies across engineering, product, data, and business teams to resolve blockers and maintain program momentum.
• Delivers program risks and issues by applying structured escalation frameworks and facilitating decision-making with appropriate stakeholder involvement.
• Produces executive-ready program status reporting, delivery dashboards, and decision briefings that communicate progress, risks, and required actions.
• Drives improvements to project management practices, delivery frameworks, and program governance standards to improve execution quality and consistency.
• Guides less experienced project managers on planning methods, risk management, and stakeholder communication practices.
• Drives agile practices and fosters trust, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement through conducting healthy Agile ceremonies that include backlog refinement, planning, iteration reviews and retrospectives.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Leverage metrics to assist delivery, enable transparency and optimize the iterative / incremental development process

Technical Skills

• Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers
• Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Thorough experience of managing complex waterfall projects
• Strong experience around project financials / budget management and reporting, and resource capacity management.

Tools Knowledge

• Mandatory - Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) : Jira / Azure DevOps
• Mandatory - Advanced Excel skills, such as data analysis, pivot tables, lookups.
• Nice to Have - Experience of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Service Now

Work timings: 12 pm to 9 pm IST

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.

Additional Job Description

• 12-16 years of IT experience including 4+ years of experience in technical project management, program management and 1+ years of experience as Scrum Master/RTE.
• Certification in PMP, PMI-ACP, agile methodologies (CSP , SaFE) or equivalent preferred.

Behavioral Skills

Skills and Knowledge

• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Good group presentation skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good mathematical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent leadership skills.

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Equal Employment Opportunity

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The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

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