Project Manager

Job Summary

Lead the Strategy Deployment, PMO, and Governance agenda for the PSAI business, serving as the custodian of enterprise-wide execution excellence across the global API and API+ B2B portfolio. The role is responsible for translating strategic priorities into measurable outcomes, driving governance-led transformation, institutionalizing performance management rhythms, and ensuring rigorous execution of priorities and critical business initiatives. As a trusted advisor to the PSAI Business Head, the incumbent will orchestrate cross-functional alignment, accelerate decision-making, proactively mitigate risks, and enhance organizational effectiveness to deliver sustainable business growth, customer success, and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the end-to-end PSAI Strategy Deployment Process (SDP), translating business strategy into actionable objectives, KPIs, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the PMO for PSAI priorities, strategic transformation initiatives, and enterprise programs, ensuring disciplined execution, milestone achievement, risk mitigation, and realization of intended business benefits.
• Establish and institutionalize a robust performance governance framework, including business reviews, operating reviews, scorecards, dashboards, and action-tracking mechanisms to improve execution transparency and accountability.
• Drive governance-led transformation across API and API+ businesses by implementing structured operating mechanisms, decision forums, escalation protocols, and performance management disciplines.
• Partner with commercial, operations, supply chain, quality, R&D, finance, and enabling functions to ensure seamless cross-functional alignment and timely delivery of strategic, customer, and operational priorities.
• Provide strategic counsel to support decision-making on critical business, organizational, operational, and stakeholder matters.
• Identify enterprise risks, execution bottlenecks, and interdependencies, driving proactive interventions and corrective actions to sustain strategic momentum.
• Lead executive-level review forums and governance meetings, ensuring high-quality insights, fact-based discussions, timely decisions, and closure of agreed actions.
• Build enterprise-wide visibility through management dashboards, KPI scorecards, and business analytics that enable performance monitoring and informed decision-making.
• Foster a culture of execution excellence, continuous improvement, ownership, and outcome orientation across PSAI's global B2B business.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification from a premier institution preferred.
• 2+ years in strategy execution, transformation, PMO, business excellence, consulting, or governance-led roles.
• Proven experience in driving enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, strategy deployment, operating reviews, and transformation programs in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Certification in Project Management, Strategy Execution, Business Transformation, Lean/Six Sigma, or Program Management will be an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, preferably APIs, API+, CDMO/CMO, formulations, and global B2B business models.

Skills & Competencies

• Executive Stakeholder Management
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Strategy Deployment & Execution
• Business Analytics & Insight Generation
• Financial and Commercial Understanding
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
• Strategic Problem Solving & Decision Support
• Business Acumen in API, API+, CDMO/CMO, and Global B2B Markets

Our Work Culture

Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

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