This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a U&FM Cross Portfolio Project Leader based in India.
This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, cross-functional execution, and portfolio governance within a global life sciences environment. You will act as the central coordination point for cross-portfolio initiatives, ensuring alignment across product management, R&D, commercial, operations, and finance teams. The position is critical in driving structured decision-making, clarifying priorities, and ensuring that strategic commitments are executed effectively across the business. You will play a key role in maintaining portfolio visibility, improving communication flows, and enabling faster, more informed leadership decisions. Operating in a global, matrixed environment, you will help translate complex multi-stakeholder inputs into clear action plans. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on structure, coordination, and strategic execution at scale.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a U&FM Cross Portfolio Project Leader based in India.
This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, cross-functional execution, and portfolio governance within a global life sciences environment. You will act as the central coordination point for cross-portfolio initiatives, ensuring alignment across product management, R&D, commercial, operations, and finance teams. The position is critical in driving structured decision-making, clarifying priorities, and ensuring that strategic commitments are executed effectively across the business. You will play a key role in maintaining portfolio visibility, improving communication flows, and enabling faster, more informed leadership decisions. Operating in a global, matrixed environment, you will help translate complex multi-stakeholder inputs into clear action plans. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on structure, coordination, and strategic execution at scale.
Accountabilities:
- Facilitate structured decision-making by consolidating inputs from portfolio, platform, and lifecycle teams and translating them into clear recommendations.
- Own governance and communication workflows, including status updates, escalation management, and documentation of key decisions and outcomes.
- Coordinate across R&D, Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Program teams to align execution with product strategy and resolve cross-functional misalignments.
- Track portfolio-level initiatives, ensuring visibility on milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.
- Identify gaps in execution readiness and proactively drive resolution of issues impacting delivery or strategic alignment.
- Ensure leadership decisions are clearly communicated, understood, and operationally executed across all relevant teams.
- Strong experience in structured decision-making, including preparation of options, trade-offs, and executive-level decision documentation.
- Demonstrated ability to manage governance frameworks, communication rhythms, and escalation pathways across multiple stakeholders.
- Experience working effectively with R&D, Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Program Management teams in a matrixed organization.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to maintain portfolio-level visibility and track multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.
- Ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
- Prior exposure to product, program, or portfolio leadership roles in global organizations is highly desirable.
- Competitive compensation package aligned with global program and portfolio leadership roles.
- Opportunity to work on high-impact, cross-portfolio initiatives in a global life sciences environment.
- Hybrid/remote flexibility with occasional international travel (up to 30%).
- Exposure to senior leadership decision-making and enterprise-level strategy execution.
- Strong learning and development opportunities within a science-driven, innovation-focused organization.
- Collaborative and inclusive work culture focused on continuous improvement and impact.
- Health, wellness, and comprehensive employee benefits package.
- Career growth opportunities across global product and program leadership tracks.
Serve as the single point of contact for cross-portfolio initiatives, ensuring alignment, clarity, and consistent representation of the U&FM Product Management organization across global stakeholders.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree required, with proven experience in product management, program management, or strategy execution within complex, cross-functional environments.