Portfolio System Enablement Lead

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & enterprise integration

• Lead, coach, and develop Hyderabad associates across data, automation, reporting, and simulation capabilities, fostering a high-accountability and growth-oriented environment
• Act as the primary point of contact for AGE in Hyderabad, strengthening connections with EPI and broader enterprise stakeholders and ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities
• Translate AGE priorities into clear delivery focus and resource alignment, ensuring work concentrates on enterprise value rather than fragmented demand
• Showcase the value of Hyderabad deliverables and build trust and adoption across S&G stakeholders
• Enable a matrix-first operating model, empowering senior contributors while maintaining clarity of priorities and accountability

Delivery ownership & impact

• Independently own and deliver priority initiatives aligned to AGE’s enterprise roadmap
• Translate complex business needs into clear deliverables, sequencing, and acceptance criteria ensuring outputs are decision-ready, reusable, and scalable
• Partner across AGE team to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and avoid fragmentation

Scalable execution & operational excellence

• Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery through clear prioritization, strong quality controls, and well-defined ownership and “definition of done”
• Drive scalability and efficiency by embedding automation, reuse, and simplification, progressively reducing manual effort and enabling repeatable, decision-ready outputs
• Act as a collaborative delivery partner across AGE and S&G, applying strong program and change management practices to translate designs into scalable, adopted, and supported capabilities

Essential Requirements:

• University degree in Informatics, Computer Sciences, business or similar, Bachelor’s degree in IT/Business administration
• Experience or demonstrated potential in coaching others, enabling senior contributors, or leading workstreams in a matrix environment
• Hands-on 5+ years product/project/program/portfolio management and delivery experience leading medium to large scale, technology enabled, AI initiatives, digital solutions and products
• Good understanding of the drug discovery and development process
• Experience in product design methods to drive clear requirement definition
• Well versed in handling clear and concise communication with different stakeholder groups
• Strong program and change management capabilities, with experience translating complex initiatives into structured, scalable delivery and adoption
• Demonstrated curiosity and adoption of AI and automation capabilities, leveraging them to enhance delivery, reduce manual effort, and enable scalable, decision-ready outputs
• Fluent spoken and written English, other language(s) are an additional asset

Desirable Requirements:

• Agile in managing changing priorities and ability to navigate and resolve conflicting priorities
• Strong cross-functional matrix leadership experience with demonstrated ability to establish strong partnerships without formal authority
• Experience with SQL database queries and/or one or more programming languages.