Senior Project manager

About Company:

Our client is a global investment-focused organization engaged in diversified financial and strategic investment activities across multiple regions. The company primarily focuses on identifying high-potential opportunities in both emerging and established markets, with an emphasis on long-term value creation.

Its operations include portfolio management, strategic advisory, and capital deployment across various sectors such as infrastructure, technology, and financial services. The organization follows a structured and compliance-driven approach, ensuring that all investments align with applicable regulatory frameworks and market standards.

An Ideal Candidate:

An ideal candidate should possess strong leadership and program management capabilities, with proven experience in handling large and complex projects across multiple teams and geographies. The candidate should demonstrate excellent stakeholder management, communication, and problem‑solving skills, along with the ability to drive governance, manage risks, and ensure delivery excellence. A proactive approach to process improvement, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage priorities across multiple projects while maintaining quality and timelines is essential.

Key Competencies:

We are seeking a candidate to lead and manage end-to-end project and program delivery, ensuring timely execution, strong stakeholder alignment, and delivery excellence across all engagements. The ideal candidate should be capable of handling complex programs, driving governance, managing risks, and continuously improving processes to meet business and client expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Project & Program Delivery

• Own and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of large and complex projects/programs.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, resource plans, and budgets.
• Ensure adherence to delivery timelines, SLAs, KPIs, and quality benchmarks.
• Drive execution across multiple delivery centers and cross-functional teams.

2. Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Coordinate effectively with internal stakeholders across operations and other teams.

3. Governance & Reporting

• Establish robust program governance frameworks.
• Lead weekly/monthly governance calls, steering committees, and executive reviews.
• Develop and share accurate and timely status reports, dashboards, and insights with clients and leadership.

4. Risk & Issue Management

• Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation and contingency plans.
• Drive resolution of critical delivery issues and escalations.

5. Delivery Excellence & Process Improvement

• Implement PMO best practices, standard methodologies, and tools.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma, automation opportunities).
• Ensure compliance with quality frameworks and client-specific processes.
• Manage enterprise program management activities including strategic planning, forecasting, project prioritization, resource allocation, and budgeting.
• Oversee and balance priorities across multiple projects.
• Develop and maintain reporting procedures and monitor performance across all projects.