Programme Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen to influence and shape the future of the Rolls-Royce procurement business in India. The role will provide the successful candidate an opportunity to develop valuable expertise in project management and help the organization to meet its core business objectives.  

The position will be based in Bangalore. A significant element of the role will be to establish and develop key stakeholder & supplier relationships across Rolls-Royce.

The programme Lead is responsible for the coordination, direction and oversight of the implementation of a set of related projects and activities in order to deliver outcomes and benefits related to the organization's strategic objectives.

Key Accountabilities

• Understand the strategic direction of the organisation, ensuring that there is an alignment of the suite of projects to support the business objectives.
• Define and phase programme tranches (projects and other related work) to achieve programme benefits.
• Lead the integration across all projects and organisational boundaries to deliver outcomes and benefits related to the organisation's strategic objectives.
• Responsible for delivering & monitoring the benefits realisation through the project deliverables / associated tranches
• Manage risks associated with internal and external environments
• Manage the co-ordination between component projects and the synchronisation of dependencies
• Manage programme change, such as cancelling projects or changing scope of projects to react to changes in organisation's strategy
• Monitor, control and manage overall programme performance to address deviations from plan in line with company standard processes.
• Influence and manage key programme stakeholders' expectations (internal and external) and engage their support
• Maintain communications with stakeholders and the programme organisation including status reporting to senior stakeholders as defined in the project governance structure for the project
• Ensure compliance to functional standards and policies are adhered to across the progarmme
• Ensure all programme team members have clearly defined roles and responsibilities
• Lead, coach and motivate programme team, including setting up, developing and evaluating team performance where appropriate. Support the team in planning and prioritisation of programme team work.
• Promote and sustain high performance culture and programme management.

Key Experiences and Skills

• Bachelor degree (or plus) level qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• Ideally have 8+ years of experience in the management of programmes / projects of increasing complexity. Ideally worked in a programme environment.
• Member of a professional body with PMP or APM qualification certification or equivalent industry knowledge.
• Able to work in an Integrated Project Team environment, experience of leading multi-function teams.
• Ideally has experience in all stages of a programme lifecycle and has been responsible for the delivery of one or more of those stages.
• Exposure to non-core programme management roles such as purchasing, commercial, engineering management etc would be an advantage.
• Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity and complex environments.

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