IN_Senior Associate_PLM PMO_Digital Engineering Transformation_Advisory_Gurgaon

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager / PLM PMO Lead to own end-to-end delivery governance for a PLM programme, from kickoff through cutover and stabilization.

Responsibilities

• The role involves building and controlling the integrated plan across assessment, data migration, configuration, infrastructure, integration, testing, and cutover, ensuring delivery to scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• The candidate will work closely with client leadership, business stakeholders, PLM and third-party vendors, and multi-disciplinary delivery teams to run programme governance forums, manage risks and dependencies, and provide clear, decision-ready reporting to steering committees.
• IN_Senior Associate_PLM PMO_ Digital Engineering Transformation_Advisory_Gurgaon Responsibilities : Own end-to-end delivery governance for the Windchill PLM programme from kickoff through cutover, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Build and control the integrated programme plan across assessment, data migration, configuration, infrastructure, integration, testing, and cutover workstreams.
• Establish and run RACI, RAID, dependency, decision, and change-control forums, and maintain associated logs and trackers.
• DEV, QA, and PROD environment readiness, including infrastructure, clone/refresh, configuration promotion, and release schedules.
• Manage budget, milestones, deliverables, resource plans, and team mobilisation, and track earned value and burn against plan.
• Govern SIT and UAT defect management, triage, and prioritisation, and drive release readiness and quality gates.
• Lead cutover planning and rehearsals, go/no-go decision forums, and hypercare governance through to formal hypercare exit.
• Coordinate dependencies with PTC, third-party vendors, and WOIL teams, including licences, cloud/hosting, integrations, and support handovers.
• Prepare weekly status reports, steering committee packs, and programme dashboards with clear KPIs, risks, and decisions required.
• Drive scope and change control, assessing the impact of change requests on timeline, cost, and solution design.
• Provide leadership, direction, and mentoring to workstream leads and delivery team members.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing PLM implementation, upgrade, or migration projects end-to-end.
• Working understanding of the Windchill solution landscape, including Creo and Codebeamer integration with Windchill and the CAD-PDM operating model.
• Good understanding of PLM business processes (EBOM/MBOM/BOP, part/document management, ECR/ECN).
• Understanding of PLM–ERP/SAP integration concepts (BOM, material/change data flows, REST, OData, APIs).
• Understanding of Windchill data migration lifecycle (clone health-check, mapping, mock loads, reconciliation, readiness).
• Experience planning/governing SIT, UAT, regression, and performance testing.
• Strong experience in cutover planning, rehearsals, go/no-go governance, hypercare, and transition to support (ITSM).
• Awareness of Windchill environment/infrastructure (DEV/QA/PROD, cloud/hosted, release promotion).
• Hands-on use of programme management tools (MS Project, Jira/Azure DevOps) and dashboarding (Excel, Power BI).
• Strong expertise in RACI, RAID, dependency, decision, and change-control management.
• Experience managing budgets, milestones, commercial tracking, and vendor coordination.
• Excellent stakeholder management, steering committee reporting, and communication skills.
• 6+ years of experience in PLM or engineering transformation delivery, including 5+ years leading multi-workstream programmes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

Preferred

• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or other Agile/Scrum certifications.
• Experience with Windchill upgrades, cloud migrations, or PTC SaaS (Windchill+) programmes.
• Exposure to hybrid Agile/Waterfall delivery models for PLM programmes.
• Experience in automotive, industrial manufacturing, or engineering-heavy industries.
• Exposure to Codebeamer ALM and digital thread initiatives.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and offshore delivery models.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Technology, or Business Administration is preferred.
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or relevant certifications are an advantage.