Senior Project Management Officer - Logistics Solutions (10-12 yrs)

Senior PMO

- A leading integrated logistics solutions provider headquartered in Mumbai.

- The company offers a wide range of services, including multimodal transport operations (MTO), container freight station (CFS) and inland container depot (ICD) operations, project and engineering solutions, contract logistics, and supply chain management.

Purpose of the role: To support the Group Financials: IT spend/projections & savings/FTEs/Operational parameters.

Responsibilities:

Scope of Responsibility:

- Establishes and maintains project management standards, methodologies, processes, and tools across the organization.

Governance:

- Provides governance, support, and oversight for multiple projects. Tracking FTEs and savings across groups.

Stakeholder Management:

- Involved in high-level stakeholder engagement activities across projects.

Knowledge Management:

- Establishes knowledge management repositories and facilitates knowledge sharing across projects.

Performance Measurement:

- Establishes key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure project and portfolio performance.

Project Prioritization & Governance:

- The PMO develops standard optimal governance to prioritize projects in the pipeline based on strategic goals, resource availability, and potential ROI.

- It also defines and implement methodologies and a governance framework including risk management, change control, and quality assurance processes to ensure that projects are initiated, executed, and monitored in accordance with the set guidelines.

- Resource Planning & Scheduling

Key Initiatives and OPEX Capex Savings:

- The PMO forecast the resource demand for the pipeline projects in the opportunity or approval stage and assess available resources and their attributes.

- Accordingly, they identify resource gaps and develop comprehensive resource plans.

- This helps them strategically allocate resources according to the demand and meet project objectives and deadlines effectively.

Resource Optimization:

- PMO ensures the efficient utilization of human, equipment, financial, and other resources to meet organizational objectives.

- Further, it also tracks resource usage and identify instances of over or underutilization.

- Accordingly, they direct managers to take necessary steps to mitigate the same and ensure workforce utilisation, thus maximizing their productivity.

Secondary Skills:

- Excellent Communication skills-Communication is very important as this candidate will coordinate with Belgium and USA teams.

- Someone who handled complex projects end to end. Logistics background will have an added advantage.

- IT Domain knowledge will be an added advantage.

- Good Communication and MS Office Skills (proficiency in xls/ppt)

- Strong Team player - with ability to work across cross functional groups, shared services and