Program Manager I

Overview

Lead strategic, repeater, regional or global ESS programs through their full lifecycle, and provide program leadership and portfolio governance support across the ESS organization.

What you'll do

• 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; escalate 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.

What you'll need

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CCPM or Agile/CSM certification.

Details

• Location: Hadapsar, Pune, Maharashtra, India.