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Position: Head PMO Abbott EPD

The Head PMO EPD India serves as a strategic integrator execution leader and governance anchor for the EPD India region. The role combines:

• Strategy & transformation leadership
• PMO discipline and execution rigor
• Leadershipoffice enablement

The role ensures that the VPs priorities are translated into welldesigned initiatives executed with discipline tracked transparently and delivered through strong crossfunctional collaboration across Abbotts India affiliates (AIL APC ASC) as well as the support functions.

Core Job Responsibilities

1. Strategic Enablement of the VP EPD India

• Act as a trusted thought partner to the VP on strategy business priorities and organizational effectiveness
• Support shaping of shortterm and longterm strategic agendas for EPD India
• Prepare executivelevel insights analyses and recommendations for leadership forums
• Help the VP focus on the most valuecreating priorities filtering noise and driving clarity
• Drive execution and follow-up across aligned priorities with the working teams

2. Strategy Transformation & Special Initiatives

• Identify design and lead highimpact strategic and transformation projects across EPD India
• Translate strategic themes into structured initiatives with clear problem statements milestones owners and success metrics
• Bring in best practices and external perspectives (pharma peers adjacent industries consulting frameworks)
• Own endtoend delivery of select VP and leadershipsponsored initiatives

3. PMO Leadership & Execution Rigor

• Act as a central PMO anchor for the VPs priority initiatives to drive:
  • Project structuring
  • Workplans
  • Clear milestones and dependencies
  • Follow-up to drive results and actions
  • Navigating through the organization across business and support functions
  • Risk identification and mitigation

• Ensure cadenced tracking disciplined followups and debottlenecking
• Proactively escalate risks and issues with clear options and mitigation plans
• Bring consistency rigor and transparency to how projects are executed across affiliates

4. CrossFunctional & Affiliate Leadership

• Lead and influence crossfunctional teams spanning:
  • Commercial Sales and Marketing
  • Manufacturing supply chain and Quality
  • Finance
  • HR
  • I&D
  • Regulatory & compliance
  • Government Affairs and Legal
• Influence without authority; build alignment through logic data and credibility

5. Performance Management Governance & Cadence

• Own the operating cadence of the VPs office:
  • Business reviews
  • Transformation scorecards
  • Leadership meeting agendas and outputs
• Track commitments against plans and ensuring accountability
• Support governance forums with structured decision documents and prereads
• Ensure leadership discussions convert into clear actions and ownership

6. Competitive Intelligence & External Benchmarking

• Regularly monitor competitive market regulatory and portfolio shifts
• Assess implications for:
  • Business performance
  • Portfolio health
  • Execution priorities
• Support identification of new transformation opportunities based on evolving business needs

7. Leadership & Stakeholder Integration

• Act as a bridge between the VP and the EPD India leadership team
• Help align leaders on priorities sequencing and tradeoffs
• Enable faster better decisionmaking by improving context clarity and execution discipline
• Maintain high standards of confidentiality and judgment

Minimum Education

• Graduate from a reputed institute; MBA from a reputed institute highly preferred

Minimum Experience/Training Required

• 8-10 years of total experience; 2-3 years in management consulting with a top-tier firm is preferred
• Prior experience in driving strategic projects and cross functional teams
• Prior experience in India pharma industry preferred

The base pay for this position is

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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