Senior. Engineering Manager - PMO

Job Summary

The Senior Engineering Manager – PMO will lead the OHC Project Management Office in Pune, overseeing a diverse portfolio of sustaining programs, product launches, complex product redevelopment initiatives, and multi-year Product Development and Lifecycle Management (PDLM) programs.

The role will translate business, product development, and sustaining requirements into structured programs and projects, ensuring alignment with business priorities, resource availability, financial objectives, and delivery commitments.

As a key participant in the Change Control Board (CCB), the role will establish strong portfolio governance, drive disciplined prioritization and decision-making, and ensure successful execution of the OHC Lifecycle Management (LCM) portfolio across multiple sites and sub-businesses.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive product development experience, strong engineering and program management expertise, financial and portfolio governance capabilities, and proven leadership in managing cross-functional teams and complex, multi-site initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• PMO and Portfolio Leadership: Lead the OHC PMO in Pune and oversee a portfolio of sustaining programs, product launches, complex product redevelopment initiatives, and multi-year PDLM programs.
• Change Control and Governance: Chair the Change Control Board and ensure structured intake, assessment, prioritization, approval, and tracking of business and engineering requests.
• Program and Project Planning: Translate approved requests into clearly defined programs and projects with established scope, deliverables, ownership, resource plans, budgets, timelines, and success criteria.
• Portfolio Governance: Establish and continuously improve PMO processes, governance frameworks, milestone reviews, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, and performance reporting.
• Budget and Resource Management: Lead portfolio budgeting, forecasting, capacity planning, and resource allocation, ensuring transparency of costs, commitments, and financial risks.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with cross-functional and senior stakeholders to align priorities, negotiate scope and funding, resolve dependencies, and manage delivery expectations.
• Executive Reporting: Provide clear, data-driven portfolio updates, identify critical risks and opportunities, and present recommendations to senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
• Strategic Decision-Making: Exercise independent judgment to challenge, defer, or decline requests that lack strategic alignment, business value, sufficient clarity, funding, or organizational capacity.
• Program Performance and Risk Management: Oversee portfolio execution across scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, risks, interdependencies, and benefits realization.
• People Leadership and Development: Lead, coach, and develop project and program management professionals, building PMO capabilities, strengthening execution excellence, and supporting succession planning.
• Product Development Excellence: Apply product development and lifecycle management expertise to guide cross-functional execution, design reviews, lifecycle decisions, and delivery readiness.
• Digital Transformation and Continuous Improvement: Drive the practical adoption of Agile methodologies, digital tools, automation, data analytics, and AI to improve execution efficiency, transparency, quality, and decision-making.

Mandatory Qualifications and Experience

• 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 is 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.

Key Competencies

• Strategic portfolio and program leadership
• Engineering and product development lifecycle expertise
• Financial planning and resource optimization
• Governance, risk management, and change control
• Executive stakeholder engagement and influencing
• People leadership and talent development
• Data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement
• Digital transformation and Agile project management
  

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Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
This role is an office-based role.

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