Senior Project Manager - PMO

ZS's Program Management Expertise Center provides planning, delivery, and governance expertise to a wide range of clients and internal stakeholders. Our global organization is comprised of team-oriented, pragmatic, and results-driven people who thrive on solving challenging problems and driving the implementation of critical solutions. Our people come from diverse backgrounds, but share a passion for ensuring successful delivery of planned outcomes for our customers - both external clients as well as internal practice areas and industry vertical.

What Youll Do :

• Program planning by leading end to end planning and execution across 1 or more workstreams for a large engagement with multiple projects and workstreams ;
• Program execution by leading program delivery for key workstreams across strategic initiatives, drive the program activities to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum ;
• Provide leadership to setup a robust PMO framework for effective delivery and execution ;
• Work with other functional leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects and programs ;
• Continuously seeks areas of opportunities to improve project management practices and add value to teams and conduct periodic meetings with all PMOs and project leads ;
• Partner with senior program leaders and client stakeholders to plan, and lead key initiatives ;
• Lead and mentor junior PMO team members engaged in the progra m and provid e the direction required for meeting the project objectives .

What Youll Bring :

• Graduate/ post-graduate in any discipline with 7 to 10 years of experience in Project Management experience ;
• Prior experience with program and PMO activity for large business transformations, or implementation of Digital strategy; experience managing large PMO vertical and client accounts ;
• Any Life Science, Healthcare, Pharma or Consulting experience is a nice to have Insurance or Finance industry experience also a plus ;
• Experience in large scale transformation programs with multiple stakeholders, complicated data dependencies, intersecting workstreams, and project change management ;
• Thorough understanding of project management phases, techniques, and tools reporting ;
• Ability to work in Agile, Waterfall and hybrid methodologies ;
• Strong knowledge of PMI and Agile project management standards and PMI/PMP, Prince2, or Agile certification desired .
• Fluency in English
• Client-first mentality
• Intense work ethic
• Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach

Additional Skills:

• Strong understanding of projects KPIs and SLAs ;
• Strong ability to implement processes, excellent oral and written communication skills, leadership skills and self-motivation, polished interpersonal skills, customer focus ;
• Proactive, identifies opportunities/challenges and takes initiative .