Director, TPMO

Location: Bengaluru

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.

-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values which are Customer-Centric, Accountable, Innovative, Collaborative, and Action-Oriented. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around 1400 Spherions around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

Role Overview
Sphera is evolving toward a product-led delivery model where routine execution is owned by Product, Engineering, and Agile teams and the PMO is focused where it creates the most value: enterprise-scale program orchestration, portfolio visibility, cross-functional dependency management, and executive-level risk and decision intelligence.
The Director of PMO will lead this operating model in practice. This is not a coordination or reporting role it is a leadership position for someone who drives delivery outcomes through influence, builds the portfolio intelligence infrastructure that Sphera's leadership team relies on, and holds the accountability architecture across complex, cross-functional programs and integration projects.

Key Responsibilities
1. Enterprise Program & Portfolio Leadership
Own end-to-end delivery accountability for integration programs, cross-functional initiatives, and large-scale portfolio commitments that span Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and executive stakeholders.
Maintain a real-time portfolio map: initiative status, delivery confidence, milestone health, and executive-facing roll-up.
Drive consistent use of program management standards across all PMO-owned initiatives — milestones, RAID logs, decision registers, and change control.
Lead program governance for strategic initiatives from kick-off through closure, including scope, schedule, risk, and dependency management.

2. RAID Log Ownership and Escalation Discipline
Own the RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) log across PMO-managed programs — ensuring it is current, actionable, and visible to the right stakeholders.
Proactively identify and surface risks before they become blockers; distinguish material issues requiring executive attention from operational noise.
Maintain a clear escalation path: who owns what, by when, and what decision or action is required to unblock delivery.
Track open items with rigor — named owners, committed dates, and weekly check-ins to assess progress and identify stalls.

3. Action Owner Accountability and Status Cadence
Hold a consistent, structured cadence of status reviews across all active programs ensuring blockers are identified early, action owners are confirmed, and commitments are tracked to closure.
Drive accountability without authority: follow up persistently, escalate appropriately, and document outcomes so nothing falls through the gaps.
Build and maintain the action log tied to executive forums (Product Review, OLT reviews, launch readiness checkpoints) ensuring every decision produces a named owner and a due date.
Produce the executive-facing portfolio status update on a regular cadence: concise, signal-driven, and tied to delivery reality not slide narrative.

4. Cross-Functional Dependency and Integration Management
Map and manage dependencies across product lines, engineering squads, shared platform teams, and external partners or integration work streams.
Maintain a live dependency register that surfaces aging blockers, ownership gaps, and resolution timelines to the teams and leaders who need to…