Senior. Engineering Manager - PMO

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager to lead the OHC Project Management Office in Pune, overseeing a portfolio of sustaining programs, product launches, complex product redevelopment initiatives, and multi-year PDLM programs.

What you'll do

• Lead the OHC PMO in Pune and oversee the portfolio of sustaining programs, product launches, complex product redevelopment initiatives, and multi-year PDLM programs.
• Chair the Change Control Board and ensure structured intake, assessment, prioritization, approval, and tracking of business and engineering requests.
• Translate approved requests into defined programs and projects with scope, deliverables, ownership, resource plans, budgets, timelines, and success criteria.
• Establish and continuously improve PMO processes, governance frameworks, milestone reviews, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, and performance reporting.
• Lead portfolio budgeting, forecasting, capacity planning, and resource allocation, ensuring transparency of costs, commitments, and financial risks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and senior stakeholders to align priorities, negotiate scope and funding, resolve dependencies, and manage delivery expectations.
• Provide clear, data-driven portfolio updates, identify critical risks and opportunities, and present recommendations to senior leadership.
• Challenge, defer, or decline requests lacking strategic alignment, business value, clarity, funding, or capacity.
• Oversee portfolio execution across scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, risks, interdependencies, and benefits realization.
• Lead, coach, and develop project and program management professionals, building PMO capabilities and supporting succession planning.
• Apply product development and lifecycle management expertise to guide cross-functional execution, design reviews, lifecycle decisions, and delivery readiness.
• Drive the practical adoption of Agile methodologies, digital tools, automation, data analytics, and AI to improve execution efficiency, transparency, quality, and decision-making.

What you'll need

• Minimum 18 years of professional experience in product development or a closely related engineering environment.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in project, program, or portfolio management.
• PMP certification (mandatory).
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional, multi-site product development or lifecycle management programs.
• Mandatory experience in people management, including leading and developing teams.
• Strong understanding of Product Development Lifecycle Management (PDLM), structured development reviews, and cross-functional engineering integration.
• Proven responsibility for project or portfolio budgets, financial forecasting, resource planning, and financial performance.
• Experience managing portfolios that include both short-cycle initiatives and complex, multi-year programs.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, challenge requests, and make difficult portfolio-level decisions.
• Experience establishing, implementing, or improving PMO frameworks, portfolio governance, and project management processes.
• Proven expertise in managing program risks, interdependencies, organizational change, and business benefits.

Details

• Office-based role in Pune.
• Office-based teams work in person at least 3 days per week.