Program Manager

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** 1. **Strategic Project Leadership & Delivery Excellence** Lead end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery of strategic projects in line with business priorities, AoP commitments, timelines, cost targets, quality expectations, and speed-to-market objectives. 2. **Project Governance, Risk Management & Decision Support** Establish robust governance mechanisms, review cadences, escalation frameworks, and risk mitigation plans to ensure timely visibility of project health, data-driven decision-making, and proactive resolution of execution challenges. 3. **Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management** Drive seamless collaboration across R&D, product, sourcing, manufacturing, quality, finance, and commercial teams to align project objectives with market needs, technical feasibility, resource availability, and business outcomes. 4. **Portfolio Performance & KPI Ownership** Monitor and improve project portfolio performance through key metrics such as milestone adherence, resource utilization, cost control, launch readiness, risk closure, and overall project execution effectiveness. 5. **Team Capability Building & PMO Excellence** Coach and mentor project managers and cross-functional teams on project management standards, tools, processes, and best practices to strengthen execution discipline, accountability, and capability maturity within the organization. 6. **Continuous Improvement & Organizational Transformation** Lead initiatives to improve project management processes, digital tracking, governance maturity, and ways of working while promoting a culture of agility, ownership, collaboration, innovation, and customer-centric execution. **Preferred candidate profile** Experience in handling New product Development projects Preferably from Consumer products, Home appliances Minimum 10-12 years' Experience in New product Launches