Job Details :

- Develops integrated program plans, milestone schedules, risk registers, and governance routines that maintain delivery visibility and stakeholder alignment.
- Coordinates cross-functional dependencies across engineering, product, data, and business teams to resolve blockers and maintain program momentum.
- Produces executive-ready program status reporting, delivery dashboards, and decision briefings that communicate progress, risks, and required actions.
- Drives improvements to project management practices, delivery frameworks, and program governance standards to improve execution quality and consistency.
- Guides less experienced project managers on planning methods, risk management, and stakeholder communication practices.
- Drives agile practices and fosters trust, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement through conducting healthy Agile ceremonies that include backlog refinement, planning, iteration reviews and retrospectives.
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Leverage metrics to assist delivery, enable transparency and optimize the iterative / incremental development process

Technical Skills :

- Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers
- Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Thorough experience of managing complex waterfall projects
- Strong experience around project financials / budget management and reporting, and resource capacity management.

Tools Knowledge :

- Mandatory - Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) : Jira / Azure DevOps
- Mandatory - Advanced Excel skills, such as data analysis, pivot tables, lookups.
- Nice to Have - Experience of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Service Now

Work timings :



12 pm to 9 pm IST

Educational Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.

Additional Job Description :

- 12-16 years of IT experience including 4+ years of experience in technical project management, program management and 1+ years of experience as Scrum Master/RTE.
- Certification in PMP, PMI-ACP, agile methodologies (CSP, SaFE) or equivalent preferred.

Skills and Knowledge : Behavioral Skills :

- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Good group presentation skills.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good mathematical skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership skills.

What Cencora offers : Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies : Affiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Equal Employment Opportunity : Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, advantages, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

📌 Senior Project Manager, Technical Project Management (Pune)
🏢 Cencora
📍 Pune