City Lead- Assam

The City Lead - Assam will be responsible for driving endtoend delivery governance and growth of the Project & Program Management (PJM) function within the city. This role requires a seasoned leader with strong stakeholder management delivery excellence people leadership and business development capabilities. The City Lead will act as a strategic partner to clients and internal leadership while scaling teams and ensuring consistent project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Own and lead the PJM function for the assigned city aligning local delivery goals with national and organizational strategy.
• Act as the seniormost escalation point for complex project and program issues.
• Define citylevel operating models KPIs and governance frameworks for project delivery.

Project & Program Delivery

• Oversee multiple largescale complex programs and portfolios across domains.
• Ensure timely costeffective and highquality delivery of projects in line with SLAs and client expectations.
• Drive risk management dependency planning and resolution of critical delivery challenges.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong executivelevel relationships with clients and key stakeholders.
• Support presales solutioning and proposal discussions related to PJM engagements.
• Represent the organization as a trusted advisor for program and transformation initiatives.

People & Talent Management

• Build mentor and scale highperforming Project and Program Manager teams.
• Drive hiring onboarding performance management and succession planning for the city.
• Foster a culture of accountability collaboration and continuous improvement.

Process & Governance

• Standardize project management methodologies tools and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with organizational contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Drive PMO maturity reporting rigor and datadriven decisionmaking.

Business Growth & Operations

• Contribute to revenue growth through account expansion resource optimization and improved margins.
• Partner with crossfunctional teams (Sales HR Finance Operations) to support business objectives.
• Track and optimize citylevel financial performance for PJM engagements.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 15 years of experience in Project / Program / Portfolio Management with exposure to large enterprisescale initiatives.
• Proven experience leading multiproject environments and large delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of PMO frameworks governance models and delivery methodologies (Agile Waterfall Hybrid).
• Demonstrated experience in clientfacing and leadership roles.
• PMP / PgMP / Prince2 / SAFe or equivalent certifications preferred.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strategic thinking and execution excellence
• Strong people leadership and mentoring capability
• Exceptional stakeholder and client management skills
• Financial acumen and commercial awareness
• Excellent communication negotiation and problemsolving abilities

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time