- Location
- Embassy Manyata Tech Park (IN-ME), India
- Type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Description
Job Title: Project Lead
Location: Bengaluru
Fulltime/Permanent
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
Summary:
- We are looking for an Associate Project Manager to own defined workstreams or smaller projects within Global Business Services (GBS) transformation programmes.
- You will turn agreed scope into delivered outcomes, owning plans and progress
- Work with international teams and PMO colleagues to resolve issues and deliver against agreed time, cost and quality limits.
- This role suits someone with project or transformation experience ready for greater delivery responsibility and is excited by the opportunity to build their career in an international setting, work in our flagship capability centres alongside experienced leaders, and work on more complex work and initiatives as their experience grows
Key Responsibilities:
- Own agreed deliverables and outcomes for defined workstreams or smaller projects within delegated scope, cost, time and quality limits.
- Own and maintain project plans for assigned projects or workstreams.
- Monitor delivery against agreed limits. Resolve issues and take corrective action, escalating exceptions and proposed changes to the Lead Project Manager.
- Coordinate activity across functional specialists, sending teams, delivery centres, the programme office, change teams, and service management teams.
- Support transition activity through mobilisation, design, knowledge transfer, readiness, go-live and stabilisation.
- Own and coordinate timely status updates. Maintain actions, risks, issues and dependencies registers
- Apply the GBS Stage Gate methodology and support associated governance reviews.
- Build strong working relationships across a complex, global stakeholder environment.
- Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of GBS programme delivery standards and ways of working.
- Develop broader project management capability through progressively more complex delivery assignments.
Essential Experience:
- Practical project, transition, or transformation experience, with evidence of personally owning defined delivery activities.
- Exposure to transition or significant business change - including at least one transition, migration, mobilisation or transformation project.
- Experience turning agreed scope into deliverables and coordinating plans, risks and dependencies across stakeholders.
- Able to organise work effectively, maintain momentum and follow through on commitments.
- Sound judgement and problem-solving skills with ability to escalate decisions where required
- Comfortable working across functions and geographies in a matrix environment.
- Proactive and willing to take ownership rather than waiting to be directed.
- Able to work with ambiguity and changing priorities.
- Motivated to develop a career in project/programme management.
Desirable Experience
- GBS, Shared Services or GCC exposure.
- Experience of service transition, operating-model change and transformation.
- Familiarity with project planning, RAID, governance, reporting or stage-gate approaches.
- Experience scheduling in Microsoft Project (MSP) or an equivalent tool.
- Working towards a recognised PM qualification such as APM PMQ, PMP or PRINCE2
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.