06 Aug
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PwC Service Delivery Center Bangalore
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Bangalore Rural
06 Aug
PwC Service Delivery Center Bangalore
Bangalore Rural
PMO Manager - Pricefx Implementation | India Pricing Practice
Role Summary
We are hiring a PMO Manager for our Pricing Technology practice in India to manage Pricefx implementation programs for enterprise clients. This role is responsible for project governance, delivery management, cross-functional coordination, leadership reporting, risk tracking, and release readiness across PwC and client teams.
The PMO Manager will work closely with client stakeholders, functional teams, development teams, QA teams, data/integration teams, release management, PwC leadership, and client leadership to ensure structured, transparent, and timely delivery. This is a client-facing delivery leadership role requiring strong project management, Agile governance, stakeholder management, and issue-resolution skills.
Key Responsibilities
Project Governance & Delivery Management
- Own end-to-end governance for Pricefx implementation workstreams across design, configuration, development, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
- Establish and maintain sprint cadence, status reporting, RAID tracking, escalation paths, release checkpoints, and leadership reviews.
- Track timelines, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, risks, issues, and action items across PwC and client teams.
- Work with project leadership to define sprint goals, release objectives, delivery timelines, and implementation checkpoints.
- Ensure activities remain aligned with agreed scope, delivery methodology, project plan, and client expectations.
- Identify delivery risks early and escalate blockers, delays, dependency gaps, or resourcing concerns to stakeholders.
- Coordinate release readiness across functional, development, QA, data/integration, and deployment teams. Agile / Scrum Execution
- Oversee Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and defect triage meetings.
- Partner with functional leads, technical leads, QA leads, and product owners to ensure user stories are defined, prioritized, estimated, and ready for development. Jira / Project Tracking Tool Management
- Own Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tracking tools for delivery and leadership visibility.
- Maintain sprint boards, dashboards, filters, reports, and project views for team-level and leadership-level visibility.
- Prepare dashboards showing planned vs actual progress, sprint completion, open risks, defect trends, dependencies, and milestones. Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate across client business, client IT, PwC functional consultants, Pricefx developers, QA testers, data/integration teams, release teams, and leadership.
- Ensure functional requirements are clearly handed over to development and QA teams.
- Facilitate resolution of requirement gaps, design clarifications, testing blockers, defect priorities, and deployment dependencies.
- Drive communication between offshore and onshore teams across time zones and ensure timely closure of decisions and actions. Status Reporting & Leadership Communication
- Prepare daily/weekly project status reports and executive dashboards for PwC and client leadership.
- Communicate project health clearly, including what is on track, at risk, delayed, and where leadership support is required.
- Provide updates on development progress, QA execution, SIT/UAT readiness, release status, and open dependencies.
- Highlight critical path items, upcoming milestones, escalation needs, and key decisions required. Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
- Maintain RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies across the project.
- Track blockers with transparent ownership, due dates, next steps, and escalation paths.
- Proactively identify risks related to scope, timeline, resource availability, requirements clarity, defect backlog, testing readiness, data readiness, and integration dependencies.
- Work with project leads on mitigation plans and escalate unresolved issues to PwC and client leadership when needed. Testing,
Release & Hypercare Coordination
- Coordinate with QA leads and functional teams to track SIT, regression testing, UAT, defect retesting, and business sign-off.
- Ensure test progress, defect status, blockers, and pending clarifications are visible to leadership.
- Support release planning by tracking scope readiness, defect closure, deployment dependencies, cutover tasks, and approval checkpoints.
- Facilitate go/no-go discussions and track hypercare issues, ownership, timelines, and business impact. Documentation & Process Discipline
- Maintain project plans, sprint plans, meeting notes, action trackers, RAID logs, status reports, dashboards, and governance documentation.
- Ensure project documentation is organized, current, and accessible to stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 8-12 years of experience in PMO, Scrum Master, project management, Agile delivery, or technology implementation roles.
- Experience managing enterprise technology implementation projects, preferably in pricing, CPQ, ERP, CRM, revenue management, or commercial transformation.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery, sprint planning, backlog tracking, defect management, and release governance.
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools for project tracking, reporting, and dashboards.
- Strong communication skills with ability to prepare executive dashboards, status reports, meeting notes, and action trackers.
- Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, dependencies, and stakeholders.
- Ability to identify risks, manage escalations, and drive timely closure of open actions.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Management, or related field preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience supporting Pricefx or pricing transformation projects.
- Experience in consulting delivery environments with client-facing responsibilities.
- PMP, SAFe, Agile, Scrum Master, or project management certification preferred.
- Experience working with distributed global teams across multiple time zones.
📌 PMO (Pricing) - Manager (Bangalore Rural)
🏢 PwC Service Delivery Center Bangalore
📍 Bangalore Rural