Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

Key Responsibilities:
- Accountability for time, cost, investment, scope, quality, and delivery.
- Translate product and business requirements into feasible AI implementation roadmaps, including timelines, resources, investments, and expected outcomes.
- Define and manage program milestones, deliverables, dependencies, critical paths, risks, and governance to ensure on-time delivery.
- Drive supplier execution through explicit SoW, deliverables, KPIs, commercial milestones, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage program budget and investment, tracking actuals vs. plan and driving cost optimization without compromising delivery objectives.
- Drive AI solutions through PoC → pilot → validation → production deployment, ensuring readiness at every stage and adherence to committed timelines.
- Establish and track delivery, AI performance, quality, cost, scalability, and business-value KPIs.
- Proactively manage risks, issues, changes, and dependencies, ensuring timely decisions and corrective actions.
- Provide transparent program status, investment, schedule,



risk, and delivery reporting to senior management and stakeholders.
- Drive industrialization and scaling of successful AI solutions across products, maximizing return on AI investment and creating reusable implementation frameworks.

Experience

10-12 yrs.

Industry Preferred

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, or related discipline.

MBA, Master's degree in Technology Management, AI, Data Science, or Project Management preferred.

General Requirements

Technical & Functional Competencies
- Program & Portfolio Management
- AI & GenAI Program Delivery
- Supplier & Vendor Management
- Investment & Budget Governance
- Risk & Issue Management
- Product Development Lifecycle
- Digital Transformation Programs
- KPI & Performance Management
- Business Case & Value Realization
- Governance Frameworks & PMO Practices

📌 Program Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Mahindra & Mahindra
📍 Chennai