: Senior Project / Program Manager – AI & Strategic Projects

Location: Bangalore

About Vegam

Vegam Solutions is a technology-driven product engineering company focused on developing innovative industrial software, AI-powered solutions, automation technologies,

and intelligent robotics systems. We combine engineering excellence with emerging technologies to solve real-world industrial challenges and build next-generation products that drive digital transformation.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project / Program Manager with hands-on experience in AI/technology projects to drive multiple strategic customer opportunities and projects.

The role spans customer engagement, proposal development, tendering/bidding and project execution, with significant interaction with senior customer stakeholders.

This is a high-ownership, hands-on role requiring the individual to independently drive proposals and projects, while actively contributing to tendering and bidding activities.

Experience in Defence / Aerospace / Government / PSU projects is strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Customer & Opportunity Management

- Engage with customers to understand requirements, priorities and opportunities.
- Work directly with senior customer stakeholders, leading discussions, presentations and follow-ups.
- Manage multiple opportunities and drive actions to closure.
- Translate customer requirements into clear internal objectives and action plans.

Proposal Management

- Own and drive proposals end-to-end, from requirement understanding through submission.
- Analyse RFPs/RFQs and customer requirements.
- Develop scope, approach, deliverables, timelines, resource requirements and other project-related proposal content.
- Coordinate inputs from technical, AI/ML, commercial, finance and other teams.
- Ensure proposals are complete, coherent,



compliant and submitted on time.
- Lead proposal-related customer discussions and clarifications.

Tendering & Bidding

- Actively participate in tendering and bidding processes.
- Analyse tender requirements and coordinate technical/project-related bid inputs.
- Drive compliance, documentation and submission readiness.
- Work closely with commercial, finance, legal and leadership teams on bid preparation.
- Participate in final bid preparation, customer clarifications and submission.

Project / Program Execution

- Own projects end-to-end once awarded.
- Establish plans, milestones, deliverables, governance and responsibilities.
- Drive execution across technical teams, customers, partners and other stakeholders.
- Manage scope, schedule, risks, dependencies and customer commitments.
- Identify issues early and drive them to resolution.
- Ensure successful delivery and project closure.

AI / Technology

- Work closely with AI/ML and technology teams and understand the key aspects of the proposed solution.
- Translate business/customer requirements into executable technology projects.
- Understand dependencies across data, AI/ML, software, integration, deployment and testing.
- Bridge the gap effectively between customers, business teams and technical teams.

Experience & Qualifications

- 10+ years of relevant experience in project/program management, technology, software, AI/ML, systems integration or related areas.




- Proven experience managing complex, customer-facing technology projects.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML or advanced technology projects.
- Strong experience in proposal development and management.
- Exposure to RFP/RFQ/tendering/bidding processes.
- Experience working with senior customer stakeholders.

Preferred

- Defence / Aerospace experience
- Government / PSU projects
- Defence or government procurement
- Large institutional customers
- Technology/system integration projects
- AI/ML implementation projects
- Complex RFP/tender responses

Key Attributes

- Strong ownership and execution orientation
- Excellent customer and stakeholder management skills
- Able to confidently engage with senior people
- Strong proposal development and documentation skills
- Structured, analytical and detail-oriented
- Able to influence and drive teams without formal authority
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously
- Able to operate independently in a fast-moving environment
- Comfortable working under tight timelines and pressure
- Robust communication and presentation skills

The Role This is not a conventional PMO/project tracking role.

The individual will be expected to personally drive:

Customer Engagement → Proposal → Tender/Bid → Project Award → Execution → Delivery The person will own proposals and project execution, while actively driving the relevant technical/project aspects of tendering and bidding in collaboration with commercial, finance, legal and leadership teams.

The role will involve multiple concurrent opportunities, senior customer interactions, tight timelines and significant cross-functional coordination.

Pay: ₹800,000.00 - ₹1,800,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Food provided
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

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