Project Management Officer

Key Responsibilities

Programme Planning and Execution

• Build and maintain the integrated plan across all unification workstreams, phases and entities.
• Hold the critical path - know what must land first and what is slipping.
• Drive delivery of each phase to its committed dates.
• Define and track readiness and go-live gates.
• Run unification planning end to end, including rollback and contingency plans.

Dependencies, Risks and Decisions

• Track cross-entity dependencies actively, including but not limited to API readiness, data, compliance sign-offs, and escalate early rather than late.
• Maintain a live risk and issue register, each with a named owner, a mitigation and a date.
• Maintain the open-decision log, chase decisions to closure, and make the cost of an unmade decision visible.

Governance and Cadence

• Run the programme governance: steering forums and working groups, with sharp agendas, pre-reads and clear actions.
• Prepare leadership and steering updates that lead with the decision needed, not the activity completed.
• Hold owners to their commitments across organisations, and follow through between forums.
• Keep one shared, transparent view of programme status that everyone works from.

Cross-Entity Coordination

• Act as the single point of coordination between Airtel Finance, Airtel Payments Bank and Airtel Money Limited teams across product, engineering, growth, data, risk and compliance.
• Build the working relationship itself with trust and cadence across organisations.

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of overall experience, including at least 3 years running complex, cross-functional programmes end to end.
• Proven experience delivering a large programme with hard dependencies across multiple teams or organisations.
• Strong structured thinking - able to break an ambiguous charter into a plan with owners, sequence and dates.
• Credible with business, product and engineering leaders; comfortable discussing growth plans, APIs, migrations and technical dependencies without needing translation.
• Able to influence and hold people to commitments without formal authority over them.
• Excellent written communication, and able to produce leadership-ready updates that are short and decision-led.
• Fluent with programme tooling, and able to build a clean plan and dashboard.
• Bachelors degree in engineering, business or a related field; an MBA is useful but not required.