Job Title: PMO Lead

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Fulltime/Permanent

Job Summary

- We are looking for a PMO Governance Analyst to work closely with our Project Managers (PMs) to deliver our Global Business Services (GBS) transformation programmes
- The role centres around driving programme rigour through effective controls and project planning analysing delivery information, challenging gaps, and proactively managing issues and resolution
- You will run local governance session and update project plans, check and consolidate plans and improve reporting quality
- Be locally accountable for the delivery of robust Stage Gates including the scheduling, support of evidence creation, owning and chairing meetings and ensuring actions and captured, owned and closed.
- This role suits someone who analyses information rather than simply compiling it and wants to understand how our PMs drive projects forward, as opposed to simply administrating them.
- The role will allow successful candidates to develop their project controls expertise through hand-on responsibility and build their broader project management capability as part of an international programme, working in our flagship capability centres alongside experienced leaders

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the local Microsoft Project (MSP) update cycle.
- Monitor delivery against agreed plans and highlight emerging variance, risks, issues and dependencies.
- Run project governance routines, ensuring information is complete, accurate and available for effective decision-making.
- Own Stage Gate readiness, evidence and closure of conditions (nb: Stage Gate decision-making would remain with the relevant accountable leaders in accordance with our Stage Gate methodology)
- Escalate delivery issues to the relevant lead




- Support risk and opportunity management, ensuring appropriate ownership, mitigation and escalation.
- Track cross-project dependencies and ensure impacts are visible to Project Managers and the wider PMO.
- Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement of GBS programme delivery practices.
- Build project management experience through increasing ownership of controls and defined delivery activities.

Essential Experience

- Practical project, programme or controls experience, including independently running agreed routines and escalating exceptions.
- Good understanding of planning, dependencies and baseline variance, alongside risk, issue, governance and reporting disciplines.
- Experience maintaining and analysing project information rather than simply collating it.
- Able to identify gaps, inconsistencies and emerging issues and escalate appropriately.
- Strong organisational and analytical skills with good attention to detail.
- Able to work effectively with Project Managers and multiple stakeholders.
- Proactive approach with willingness to take ownership and follow issues through.
- Interest and capability to develop further within the project management profession.

Desirable Experience

- Transition, transformation, GBS or Shared Services experience.
- Exposure to business case, advantages or financial tracking.
- Experience scheduling in Microsoft Project (MSP) or an equivalent tool, or using other project controls tools and methodologies.
- Working towards APM, PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent project management qualification.

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📌 PMO Lead (Bengaluru)
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