Pankaj Singh Rawat
New Delhi
Summary
Senior Project & Portfolio Management Leader with 12+ years of experience driving enterprise wide transformation, PMO governance, and large scale global delivery. Proven track record leading cross functional teams, optimizing complex multi‑project portfolios, and aligning programs with strategic business objectives.
Expert in portfolio strategy, resource optimization, financial governance, and change leadership. Skilled in identifying and mitigating organizational risks, strengthening compliance frameworks, and improving execution discipline across diverse delivery environments.
Leverage AI and automation to modernize PMO and Project operations, enhance reporting transparency, and accelerate decision making. Recognized for partnering with CXO level stakeholders to drive operational efficiency, improve portfolio performance, and deliver measurable business value.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PROJECT MANAGER, PMO
WIPRO COE | Client: Blackstone
Gurugram
09.2023 - Current
- Working as central point of expertise to support firm’s transformation strategy, managing 10+, complex projects across all functional and geographic areas, ensuring 100% strategic alignment and delivering $10M+ in business value through optimised governance.
- Monitoring execution of 12+ projects to proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies throughout project lifecycle, and implementing mitigation measures to ensure 95% on time and on budget delivery.
- Led governance optimization across 15+ initiatives, improving prioritization, resourcing, and alignment with strategic goals, resulting in 25% gain in portfolio efficiency.
- Communicate progress and roadblocks to stakeholders, including executive management, and make proactive recommendations to remove roadblocks, leading to on time and on budget delivery of project.
- Oversee end to end project governance, including delivery, and review, to ensure well managed pipeline of strategically significant projects that contribute to long term business outcomes.
- Delivered reliable and actionable management information to facilitate organizational learning, providing insights into project performance and maintaining consistency in PMO methodologies and tools.
- Driving alignment across Portfolio Managers and stakeholders by managing requirements, expectations, and portfolio roadmap, while ensuring successful execution through visibility into dependencies, timelines, and strategic communication with senior leadership.
PROJECT MANAGER
SYNEOS HEALTH PVT LTD | Client: GE
Gurugram
09.2021 - 09.2023
- Directed a global project management team across multi regional delivery hubs, overseeing baseline creation, end to end change management, invoicing, project governance, resource planning, utilization optimization, and workload/capacity forecasting which improved planning accuracy by 23%.
- Guided project governance and cross‑functional coordination for portfolios valued at $38M+, ensuring structured planning, milestone definition, dependency mapping, and on‑time delivery with 96% adherence to schedule and budget.
- Developed and monitored integrated project plans, identifying critical milestones and aligning stakeholders by clearly defining roles, responsibilities, and accountability, resulting in a 27% reduction in planning cycle time.
- Partnered with executive stakeholders to design high quality project artifacts (project charters, project plans, BRDs, RAID logs, governance decks, excutive reports), strengthening execution readiness and enhancing compliance with organizational PMO standards.
- Managed change requests with full impact assessment across scope, schedule, effort, risk, and budget, maintaining ±5% variance from the approved baseline.
- Drove operational efficiency initiatives within programs and projects, contributing to 14% improvement in delivery productivity and measurable cost savings through process standardization and governance enhancements.
- Oversaw demand and capacity management for multi disciplinary teams, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and achieving 92%+ resource utilization while maintaining delivery quality.
- Built strong cross functional and stakeholder relationships, providing proactive communication, capturing risk and concerns early, and driving alignment on key deliverables and change decisions, improving stakeholder satisfaction scores by 20%.
- Excuted analysis and preparation of governance reports (WSR, PSR, Workload forecast, etc), delivering actionable insights that informed senior leadership decisions and helped mitigate risks before impact.
- Performed financial and risk analysis, including cost tracking, variance analysis against approved budget, and re‑forecasting future financials ensuring 100% compliance with contract, SOW, and proposal obligations.
- Partnered with program leaders to define project scope, quality benchmarks, effort estimates, and cost structures, enabling more predictable delivery outcomes and improving estimation accuracy by 15%.
PMO MANAGER
LAKSHYA DIGITAL PVT LTD
Gurugram
08.2020 - 09.2021
- Steered 11+ project portfolio with precise baselines, forecasts, and compliance governance, delivering 95% on time / on budget results and maintaining less than 5% variance.
- Partnered with business, credit, compliance, and audit teams to improve requirement clarity by 30%.
- Managed UK and US onshore interactions ensuring faster QA alignment and 25% reduction in feedback loops.
- Led weekly governance and risk meetings with client and excutives, achieving 20 to 30% faster mitigation for regulatory and operational gaps.
- Built data driven PMO governance models with 98% SLA adherence for incident, feature, and change request flows.
SENIOR PMO ASSOCIATE
NatWest Markets
Gurugram
12.2012 - 08.2020
- Supported Senior Project Managers in end to end program delivery , improving delivery predictability by 20–25% through stronger baselines, RAID management, and phase gate governance.
- Built strong cross‑functional alignment with technology, business, supply chain, and senior leadership, accelerating decision making and improving stakeholder cohesion.
- Delivered excutive ready reporting and global committee presentation for governance committees on delivery status, executive summaries, spotlight items, budget consumption, resource forecasting, and milestone tracking.
- Monitored program/project baselines to ensure adherence to scope, budget, and schedule, maintaining less than 5% financial variance, 95% on‑time delivery, and improving early‑risk detection by 12 to 15%.
- Enhanced PMO governance processes and templates, improving compliance and reporting accuracy by 9%.
- Supported financial and resource forecasting across multi‑project environments, increasing utilization accuracy by 18% and strengthening quarterly planning cycles.
Education
BA Hon’s -
Delhi University
New Delhi01-2012
Senior Secondary Schooling -
CBSE Board
New Delhi01-2009
Skills
- Project & Portfolio Leadership
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- PMO Governance
- Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid Methodology
- Executive (CXO) Stakeholder Engagement
- Financial Governance & Cost Optimization
- Vendor & Contract Management
- Enterprise Risk, Issue & Dependency Oversight & Management
- Resource & Capacity Planning
- AI Driven Forecasting & Decision Intelligence
- Digital Transformation & Process Automation
- KPI Frameworks, Performance Tracking & OKR Alignment
- Data Driven Insights & Portfolio Transparency
Technical Skill
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Planview
- Clarity
- SharePoint
- MS Office
- SQL
- Power BI
- MS Project
- Smartsheet
Certification
- PMP, Project Management Professional
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
- Agile Project Management (Google)
- Project Management Essentials
Personal Information
Date of birth: 10/08/91
Languages Known: Hindi and English
Address: The Air Apt, 2nd Floor, Mandi Village, New Delhi, 110047
Timeline
PROJECT MANAGER, PMO
WIPRO COE | Client: Blackstone
09.2023 - Current
PROJECT MANAGER
SYNEOS HEALTH PVT LTD | Client: GE
09.2021 - 09.2023
PMO MANAGER
LAKSHYA DIGITAL PVT LTD
08.2020 - 09.2021
SENIOR PMO ASSOCIATE
NatWest Markets
12.2012 - 08.2020
BA Hon’s -
Delhi University
Senior Secondary Schooling -
CBSE Board