Transition Manager

Title: Transition Manager

Function: Cencora Business Services

Reports To: Senior Director Shared Services

Location: Pune India

Transition Manager Cencora Business Services

The Transition Manager is responsible for planning and delivering end-to-end transitions of customer service and customer operations activities from local markets or functions into Cencoras Global Business Services (CBS). The role requires strong program and project management capability structured transition execution and effective stakeholder management to ensure business continuity service quality and timely delivery of agreed transition outcomes.

What you will be doing

The Transition Manager Cencora Business Services leads complex high-impact operational transitions across geographies teams functions vendors or business units. This role is responsible for driving end-to-end transition strategy planning execution and stabilization to ensure seamless implementation with minimal disruption to business operations. The individual partners with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to establish governance manage risk oversee operational readiness and ensure successful handoff to steady-state operations. The role coordinates activities across markets CBS centers IT and operational teams to ensure a controlled and compliant transition into the GBS operating model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead complex cross-functional global transition initiatives involving business process changes operating model shifts service migrations or organizational realignment.
• Develop and execute comprehensive transition strategies plans milestones dependencies and governance structures.
• Partner with business leaders functional teams and external partners to define scope roles responsibilities and success measures for transitions.
• Drive transition governance including executive updates decision forums issue escalation and progress reporting.
• Identify assess and manage risks issues assumptions and dependencies and lead mitigation and resolution planning.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer and process handoff activities to ensure business continuity and operational effectiveness.
• Validate operational readiness across people processes systems controls reporting and support models before implementation.
• Monitor transition execution and stabilization activities to ensure service continuity performance and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Lead change management and communication efforts in partnership with key stakeholders to support adoption and readiness.
• Ensure all transition activities comply with internal policies quality standards business controls and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Analyze lessons learned and transition outcomes to recommend improvements to methodologies governance and operational practices.
• May provide guidance coaching or indirect leadership to less experienced team members.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelors degree in business operations project management or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires6-10 yearsof experience in transition management business operations project management program management or related roles.
• Experience leading large-scale cross-functional global business transitions in complex environments.
• Strong communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience delivering GBS or shared services transitions.
• Project Management certification (PMI PRINCE2 or equivalent) is desirable

• Strong project and program management capabilities including planning governance and execution oversight.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present effectively to leadership audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a complex fast-paced environment.
• Experience with risk management operational readiness knowledge transfer and transition governance.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and project management tools such as Smartsheet Microsoft Project Jira or similar platforms.

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Bachelors degree in business administration engineering operations or a related field or equivalent experience required.4 years of experience in analytics delivery change management process improvement project management or a related field in Project Management Professional (PMP) Agile methodology (e.g. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or SAFe Agile) continuous improvement (Lean Six Sigma etc.) Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or equivalent certification industry dynamics and commercialization context including how evidence and market requirements inform program knowledge of Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) concepts and evidence-generation management methods for planning tracking risk management stakeholder coordination and delivery and quality review practices including attention to detail and structured review and analytics concepts used to support reporting planning and Office (Word PowerPoint Excel) and related software used for analysis reporting and client-ready multiple cross-functional workstreams by setting timelines milestones and quality project plans status updates and execution materials that are clear accurate and analysis and reporting by translating complex findings into clear implications for and quality-assure deliverables with disciplined fact-checking and review and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple concurrent complex concepts clearly in presentations and discussions tailoring to technical and non-technical effectively in team settings and coordinate inputs across contributors to maintain consistency and and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to align on objectives assumptions and to sustain detailed computer-intensive work while maintaining accuracy and composure under to remain mobile as needed to support meetings workshops and stakeholder engagement.

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: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

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