Role orientation: Project planning and execution, analytics coordination and stakeholder management Role purpose The Consultant – DEI Projects will support the end-to-end execution of key DEI priorities across leadership development, DEI analytics, gender representation and ESG portfolio governance. The role requires a highly organised, analytical and dependable project management professional who can convert strategic direction into structured project plans, coordinate stakeholders, maintain timelines and documentation, identify risks, follow actions through to closure, and produce accurate management updates. This role is ideal for someone who may not yet be a DEI subject-matter expert but demonstrates exceptional ownership, follow-through, learning agility and programme-management discipline.

Key responsibilities
1. Women Leadership Development Programme Own execution across multiple cohorts. Responsibilities include:
• Develop and maintain cohort-wise project plans covering key milestones, dependencies and owners.
• Coordinate nominations, participant onboarding and programme communications.
• Maintain master calendars covering assessments, workshops, mentoring, coaching, leadership interactions and other planned interventions.
• Coordinate with internal facilitators, external learning partners and vendors.
• Track attendance, assessments, programme milestones, IDPs, Action Learning Projects and other participant deliverables.
• Follow up proactively with participants, reporting managers, mentors and relevant stakeholders.
• Identify slippages and programme risks and escalate them with clear recommended actions.
• Coordinate participant feedback and programme evaluation.
• Maintain programme records, evidence and documentation.
• Prepare monthly cohort dashboards and programme status reports.
• Coordinate programme closure and lessons learnt. 2. DEI Dashboard,



Analytics & Reporting Provide project-management and analytical coordination for the DEI dashboard and reporting agenda. Responsibilities include preparation of insights for review by the DEI Lead through:
• Maintain the DEI dashboard requirement tracker.
• Work with HRSS/Analystics Team for creating evidence-based, automated dashboard.
• Support dashboard testing and document issues requiring resolution.
• Coordinate requirements and data inputs with HR Analytics, HRBPs, TA and other data owners.
• Consolidate and conduct first-level checks of recurring data submissions.
• Identify missing, inconsistent or incomplete information and coordinate correction.
• Maintain source documentation and version control.
• Prepare recurring DEI scorecards and management reports.
• Translate validated data into charts, summaries and draft insights for review by the DEI Lead.
• Maintain action trackers arising from DEI governance meetings. 3. Women Representation & Talent Pipeline Tracking Provide project-management support for gender representation priorities. Responsibilities include:
• Maintain representation and hiring action trackers.
• Coordinate periodic inputs from TA and HRBPs.
• Track agreed hiring, retention and representation actions.
• Consolidate hiring-funnel information for governance reviews.
• Support tracking of women attrition hotspots and agreed interventions.
• Maintain cluster/function-level action plans.
• Schedule governance discussions and record decisions/actions.
• Follow up with action owners until closure.
• Prepare monthly progress updates for DEI review. 4.



DEI Portfolio PMO & Governance Create a predictable project-management backbone across the DEI portfolio.
• Maintain an integrated DEI project calendar.
• Follow up on actions and highlight overdue deliverables.
• Support vendor, PO and invoice coordination with relevant functions.
• Consolidate project updates into leadership-ready presentations.
• Maintain a simple portfolio-level RAG status.
• Escalate risks with context and possible resolution options rather than simply forwarding issues.
• Maintain confidentiality when dealing with employee, assessment and talent information. Experience & qualifications Essential
• 2–4 years of professional experience, preferably in project/programme management within HR, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Organisational Development, Employee Engagement, DEI or related functions.
• Evidence of coordinating multiple concurrent projects with different stakeholders and deadlines.
• Demonstrates complete ownership of assigned projects, proactively driving actions, anticipating risks, following commitments and ensuring closure without requiring repeated direction or follow-up.
• Strong Excel capability, including formulas, PivotTables, data cleaning, and structured analysis.
• Solid PowerPoint skills with the ability to create concise management presentations.
• Experience maintaining project plans, trackers, action logs and status reports.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Working familiarity with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft Office. Preferred
• Demonstrated stakeholder follow-through.
• Comfortable working with data and identifying basic discrepancies or missing information.
• Exposure to Power BI or another dashboarding tool.
• Experience supporting leadership-development or L&D; programmes.
• Project management training/certification is desirable, but not essential.

📌 Consultant – DEI Projects (Bengaluru)
🏢 BIOCON BIOLOGICS
📍 Bengaluru