Assistant Chief Manager - Project Portfolio Management (Planview Platform)

John Cockerill, enablers of opportunities

Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to low carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures. 

Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures. With over 6,000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1,209  billion in 2023 in 29 countries, on 5 continents.

Location - Mumbai HO

Position Overview:

The Product Owner & Expert for Planview is responsible for administrating and optimizing the Planview platform across surface treatment and metals business lines, in Industry Sector. This role reports directly to the IT Business Partner and serves as the primary referent for scheduling, promoting best practices, and driving continuous improvement within the organization. This role should interact with the COO of the different business lines.

Main Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain the Planview platform, ensuring reliability, alignment with internal processes, and performance.


• Act as the scheduling expert, advocating best practices and supporting users across the sector.


• Evaluate business needs and recommend evolution and enhancements for the Planview solution (Roadmap to activate different modules to enlarge the scope of utilization)


• Lead and animate a Community of Practice among schedulers to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.


• Develop and implement a plan to shift schedule ownership to Project Managers.


• Participate in digitalization initiatives, identifying opportunities where Planview can add value and drive innovation.


• Organize and ensure support through internal process & tools of ICT corporate (JIRA), coordinate with service desk for ticketing routing and follow-up with vendor for L3 support.

 Candidate Qualification & Background

• Education & experience: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in IT, industrial engineering, operations/project management, or related field; 3+ years’ experience in project portfolio management (PPM), scheduling, PMO, or application ownership.


• PPM expertise: Proven hands-on experience administering and configuring a PPM tool (ideally Planview), including user management, rights/roles, workflows, templates, dashboards, reporting, and data quality governance.


• Scheduling & planning know-how: Strong understanding of project planning concepts (WBS, dependencies, critical path, baselines, resources/capacity, progress tracking) and the ability to translate best practices into standards for the organization.


• Business analysis & continuous improvement: Ability to capture business requirements, challenge needs.


• Stakeholder & vendor management: Comfortable interfacing with Corporate IT, project managers, scheduling community, and external vendors; able to facilitate workshops, align on governance, and manage escalations.


• Change management & training: Demonstrated ability to onboard users, create guidance/training material, animate a Community of Practice, and support the transfer of schedule ownership to Project Managers.


• Analytical & communication skills: Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to explain complex tool/process topics in a clear, pragmatic way.

Who We Are               

About John Cockerill

John Cockerill India Limited an ISO 9001:2015 engineering company – formerly CMI FPE Limited was incorporated on May 28, 1986. The Belgian group Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (CMI) now known as John Cockerill completed the acquisition in June 2008. John Cockerill India is the Indian entity of John Cockerill Group.

‘John Cockerill India Limited.’ John Cockerill Industry’s Indian hub and center of excellence for cold rolling mill complexes, is the world leader in the conception, manufacture, and installation of reversible cold rolling mills. It has developed a wide range of technologies in the field of processing lines, rolling mills, thermal and chemical processes. It also supplies auxiliary steel treatment equipment. John Cockerill India offers the entire product portfolio of John Cockerill Industry and is coordinating the whole range of its activities including, but not limited to local engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing. As an international specialist in industrial processes and technologies, John Cockerill Industry designs, supplies and modernizes cold rolling mills, processing lines, chemical and thermal treatment installations for the steel and the non-ferrous industry, as well as state-of-the-art heat treatment technologies for the aviation, forging and casting industry, and hydrometallurgical processes for the extraction of ores. 

John Cockerill India complements John Cockerill’s strategy for growth with minimal overlaps in products and a versatile range of technology synergies. John Cockerill India is a preferred partner to supply thousands of innovative solutions for clean, reliable, and efficient Equipments worldwide.

Based on decades of experience and successfully running references all over the world, John Cockerill Industry not only supplies greenfield and brownfield installations and equipment’s, but also provides the related services, as well as training and technical assistance. John Cockerill India's reliable and cost-effective, yet innovative solutions are always adapted to the specific needs of each and every customer.

The Company's workshop in Taloja is equipped with state-of-the-artwork centers and ensures in-house equipment production, assembly and fabrication activities that conform to the most stringent international quality and safety standards.

John Cockerill India has at its helm, a team of professional managers with international experience who are committed to taking the Indian subsidiary to new heights of excellence. John Cockerill India has a global footprint across Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, North America, and South America, Russia and therefore complements John Cockerill’s global presence. John Cockerill India has its head office in Mumbai and two workshops outside Mumbai. The Indian entity is ISO 9001:2015 certified and employs over 500 people.

Our vision is to exceed customer expectations by delivering quality products and services in time and at competitive prices. Because each project is unique, every project has its own project management team. The customer benefits from the expertise of highly qualified specialists who have an international experience with a deeper knowledge of the customer’s environment.

The Group’s ambition is to be the leading industrial partner of international customers, to design equipment and develop its overall performance through a combination of expertise in maintenance and engineering.

The Group’s capabilities lie in Design & Engineering, Manufacturing, Erection & Commissioning and After Sales & Support.

Thanks to the cumulated experience in Engineering and Maintenance, John Cockerill India is able to assist its customers in achieving the overall performance optimization of their equipment, from their design phase to the end of their service life through Tailor-made solutions, Optimization of cost, Local relationship, Advanced training & Unique complementarities of solutions and areas of excellence.

Equal Opportunity Employer                  

John Cockerill and all John Cockerill Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law.

John Cockerill offers you career and development opportunities within its various sectors in a friendly working environment. 
Do you want to work for an innovative company that will allow you to take up technical challenges on a daily basis?
We look forward to receiving your application and to meeting you!

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