Project Manager CPMO tools & AI enablement

Job title:Project Manager CPMO tools & AI enablement

• Location: Ind- Hyderabad

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.

Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.

At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.

About the job:

Opella Digital is executing a multi-year transformation program (Butterfly: 56 programs, 205+ projects) supported by an integrated PMO & OCM unit. The tooling landscape underpinning this transformation — Planisware, Jira, Confluence, PowerBI, and the ELITEA, OpellaGPT AI platforms — has been designed and initially built by our implementation partner EPAM.

We are now internalizing this capability. The PMO & CMO Tools and Enablement Lead will act as the Product Owner and Project Manager of the full tooling ecosystem. You will not build the tools yourself — dedicated tech teams handle Planisware, Jira/Confluence, PowerBI, and OpellaGPT implementation. Your job is to gather requirements from all stakeholders across the Digital organization, translate them into actionable specifications, prioritize them, and project-manage their implementation by the right tech teams.

You are the bridge between business needs (what PMO, programme streams, OCM, and project teams need to see and do) and the technical teams that make it happen. You need a strong understanding of the underlying technology — not to code, but to know what’s possible, what’s feasible, and how systems connect. You think in data flows, integration patterns, and user requirements — then you drive delivery.

A defining requirement of this role is to be an AI champion. Beyond running the tooling ecosystem, you are expected to actively drive the conversion of manual, template-based, and legacy-tool ways of working toward AI-assisted and automated workflows — using OpellaGPT, ELITEA, and connected platforms — and to make AI and automation the default way the PMO and OCM operate. This expectation is weighted heavily in the recruitment process: candidates without a demonstrable AI-automation track record are not a fit.

Main responsibilities:

1. Requirements Gathering & Product Ownership

• Act as the single Product Owner for the PMO & CMO tooling ecosystem — own the backlog, prioritize features, and define what gets built and in what order

• Gather and consolidate requirements from multiple stakeholder layers: PMO dashboards, Butterfly stream dashboards, OCM/change management needs, project-level dashboards, programme-level reporting, DLT/SteerCo views

• Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications and user stories that tech teams can implement

• Manage the requirements lifecycle: elicitation, documentation, validation, prioritization, change control

• Facilitate workshops and requirement sessions with stakeholders across PMO, OCM, programme streams, and leadership to understand their reporting, tracking, and tooling needs

• Maintain a prioritized product backlog for the tooling ecosystem — balancing competing demands from PMO, OCM, and programme stakeholders

• Define acceptance criteria and validate delivered solutions against requirements before release

2. AI Enablement & Automation (Core Mandate)

• Champion AI and automation across the PMO and OCM — set the ambition, build momentum, demonstrate quick wins, and convert sceptics into adopters.

• Audit current ways of working and identify manual, template-based, and legacy-tool processes that are candidates for automation.

• Drive the conversion of those processes to AI-assisted and automated workflows using OpellaGPT, ELITEA, and connected tooling — automated reporting and status roll-ups, AI-enabled change analytics, document and template generation.

• Embed AI into standard op…