Manager, PMO Specialist

Job Description

Manager, PMO Specialist The Opportunity Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the worlds greatest health threats. Our Technology centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of the company IT operating model, Tech centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each tech center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. Role Overview: The PMO Specialist will support the Project Management Office in ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget. This role involves coordinating project activities, maintaining project documentation, and providing analytical support to project managers. The PMO Specialist will also assist in the development and implementation of project management methodologies and best practices. What will you do in this role: Project Coordination: Assist in the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects, ensuring projects completed from concept to completion under our standard work framework and alignment with organizational goals. Documentation Management: Work extensively with Project Managers to Maintain and ensure always current, project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and risk management logs. Reporting: Prepare and present regular project status reports to stakeholders, highlighting key metrics and performance indicators, ensuring the data is consistent, metrics are up to date and continuously represent single source of truth on project status. Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements within the PMO and contribute to the development of best practices. Stakeholder Communication: Ensure standard framework Facilitates regular succient communication between project teams and all stakeholders to ensure clarity and alignment on project objectives. Risk Management: Assist in identifying project risks and developing mitigation strategies. Training and Support: Provide training and support to project managers and team members on project management tools and methodologies. Digital Content: Recognition that the framework needs to deliver technologies available now and connect early with stakeholders to ensure future technologies are accounted for as company pivots towards fully digital enabled facilities. What Should you have: Education: Bachelor s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Engineering, IT or a related field. Experience: 2-4 years of experience in project management or PMO roles. Certifications: PMP (Project Management Professional) or similar certification is preferred. Skills: Project Management Tools: Proficiency in project management software (e.g., Microsoft Project, Power BI). Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact seamlessly with multiple stakeholders globally Interpersonal Skills: Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and build strong relationships with stakeholders. Organizational Skills: Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities. Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation. Who we are: We are known as Merck Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the worlds most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.