Project Manager

Overview

Lead complex global procurement projects as part of the Global Procurement, Enterprise PMO team, from initiation through execution and closure.

What you'll do

• Lead complex global procurement projects from initiation through execution and closure, translating business priorities into structured project plans with clear milestones, deliverables, owners, and timelines.
• Support the planning, coordination, and execution of global procurement strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise, category, and business priorities.
• Build alignment across Procurement, Finance, Operations, Legal, Quality, and business units across multiple regions.
• Facilitate governance routines, project reviews, decision-making forums, and executive steering committee discussions to support clear prioritization and timely decisions.
• Identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks related to cost, timing, supply continuity, dependencies, constraints, and change impacts.
• Ensure project execution follows appropriate governance, controls, compliance requirements, and Enterprise PMO methodologies.
• Develop and maintain standardized project management documentation, including project charters, project plans, RAID logs, status reports, and governance materials.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardization of procurement project management methodologies, tools, reporting, documentation, and lessons learned across regions.
• Provide clear portfolio and project-level visibility to leadership, communicating risks, priorities, trade-offs, progress, and required decisions.
• Support change management and communication activities while managing multiple concurrent initiatives in a fast-paced, global, matrixed environment.

What you'll need

• A Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• More than 5 years of project management experience, including at least 3 years within Procurement, Supply Chain, Sourcing, or a related environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading global, cross-functional projects across multiple regions and business units, including experience within an Enterprise PMO, portfolio governance, and stage-gate methodologies.
• Strong project planning, execution, stakeholder management, risk management, executive communication, organizational, and change management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Flexibility to work across global time zones and travel occasionally to regional procurement hubs and supplier sites is required.

Nice to have

• PMP certification (an equivalent project management certification or comparable experience will also be considered).

Details

• Location: Pune, Pune District, Maharashtra, India.
• Travel: occasional travel to regional procurement hubs and supplier sites.
• Time zones: flexibility to work across global time zones.