Job Family:
GIC Process (India)
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
- Establish and maintain PMO frameworks, governance standards, and project management best practices.
- Drive project execution by monitoring timelines, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
- Facilitate governance reviews, steering committees, and leadership reporting forums.
- Ensure projects remain aligned with strategic business objectives.
- Develop project plans, dashboards, scorecards, and executive reports.
- Track project performance against KPIs, SLAs, budgets, and delivery milestones.
- Provide actionable insights and recommendations to leadership through data analysis.
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility across multiple initiatives.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
- Manage RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies).
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
- Escalate critical issues and facilitate resolution.
- Support workforce planning and resource allocation across projects.
- Monitor project budgets, forecasts, and financial performance.
- Track project benefits realization and business outcomes.
- Ensure optimal utilization of resources and project investments.
- Standardize PMO processes, templates, and governance artifacts.
- Drive process improvement and operational excellence initiatives.
- Implement automation opportunities and reporting efficiencies.
- Capture lessons learned and promote best practices across programs.
What You Will NeedExperience
- 8-12 years of experience in PMO, Program Management, Project Management, Operations Excellence, or Consulting.
- Experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Proven track record in governance, reporting, and delivery management.
- Project planning and scheduling.
- Risk, issue, and dependency management.
- Budgeting and financial tracking.
- Executive dashboard and MIS reporting.
- Advanced Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and project management tools.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing abilities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Experience leading business transformation, transition, or strategic initiatives.
- Exposure to portfolio management and enterprise PMO functions.
About Guidehouse India
At Guidehouse India, we’re redefining what’s possible by creating opportunities that change lives. Guidehouse is a global professional services firm that delivers advisory, technology, and managed services to clients across both the commercial and public sectors. Our teams turn bold ideas into solutions that transform industries, strengthen communities, and drive meaningful impact worldwide.
Across our Chennai, Trivandrum, and Gurugram locations, you’ll find opportunities where your passion and curiosity help shape what comes next. With cutting edge benefits, innovative learning and development programs, and a people first culture, we empower our people to lead with purpose.
We continue to expand our teams and capabilities across India, investing in state-of-the-art offices and high impact work. Here, you’ll collaborate with experts from around the world, build deep expertise, explore new domains, and accelerate your professional growth while making a real impact.
What We Offer
At Guidehouse India, we are committed to supporting the well-being of our people and their families at every stage of life. We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you thrive both inside and outside the workplace.
Our benefits include resources such as in house physician consultations, nutritious food options at the workplace, and confidential counseling through our Employee Assistance Program, along with other wellness focused offerings that support your overall well being.
Our comprehensive learning and development programs ensure you’re continuously upskilled and ready to tackle what’s next, so you can shape your own career path while contributing to meaningful, purpose driven work.
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Contact Us
If you have visited our website to explore career opportunities or to apply for a position and have questions, please contact the Guidehouse Recruiting team at [email protected]. All information you provide will be kept confidential and used only as required to support the recruitment process.
To learn more about Guidehouse in India, visit www.guidehouse.com/india.
Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Skills Required
- 8-12 years of experience in PMO, program management, project management, operations excellence, or consulting
- Experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously
- Proven track record in governance, reporting, and delivery management
- Project planning and scheduling experience
- Risk, issue, and dependency management experience
- Budgeting and financial tracking experience
- Experience with executive dashboards and MIS reporting
- Proficiency with Advanced Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and project management tools
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing abilities
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Experience leading business transformation, transition, or strategic initiatives
- Exposure to portfolio management and enterprise PMO functions
Guidehouse Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Guidehouse and has not been reviewed or approved by Guidehouse.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests the benefits package includes broad medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and disability coverage, which is often seen as a strong foundational offering. Access to HSA/FSA options further supports day-to-day healthcare and dependent-care needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests parental leave and adoption assistance are available, alongside an emergency back-up childcare program. These offerings indicate meaningful support for employees managing family responsibilities.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests flexible work options and counseling/EAP-style support are part of the broader rewards mix. Additional lifestyle-oriented perks like community events and referral programs are also described as available in some contexts.
Guidehouse Insights
What We Do
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 12,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies.
