Program Manager, Market Development Initiative

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Location:

Beijing, Shanghai

Employment Type:

full-time

We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused China Market Development Initiative Program Manager to lead high-impact transformation and market development programs critical to AVEVA’s growth in China. This role is responsible for orchestrating complex, cross-functional initiatives that span market entry, localization, go-to-market enablement, operational readiness, and value realization. The successful candidate will combine strong program leadership with financial and operational rigor, ensuring initiatives are governed effectively, executed predictably, and measured against clear business outcomes.

This role serves as a critical bridge between China leadership, global teams, and functional stakeholders to ensure strategic objectives translate into tangible market impact.

• Program Strategy & Leadership:
• Lead China market development and transformation programs from initiation through delivery, ensuring alignment with AVEVA’s regional and global strategic objectives.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to define program goals, success criteria, roadmaps, milestones, and resource plans.
• Drive clarity across people, process, and technology dimensions of large-scale initiatives.
• Governance & Operating Model:
• Establish and run robust program governance structures, including steering committees, working groups, and escalation paths.
• Define roles, responsibilities, decision frameworks, and cadence to ensure transparency, accountability, and timely decision‑making.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise transformation standards, financial controls, and reporting expectations.
• Financial Planning & Performance Management
• Own program budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking across China initiatives.
• Establish and operationalize financial and program management toolsets to support cost tracking, resource allocation, and performance reporting.
• Analyze variances, risks, and trends; proactively recommend corrective actions.
• Market & Stakeholder Alignment
• Act as a central coordination point across China leadership, sales, marketing, R&D, finance, and global transformation teams.
• Ensure market‑specific needs, constraints, and opportunities are incorporated into program scope and execution.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and maintain consistent, effective communication at all levels.
• Program Execution & Delivery
• Drive end‑to‑end program delivery, ensuring initiatives meet defined scope, quality, budget, and schedule commitments.
• Monitor progress against milestones and KPIs; remove obstacles and enable rapid issue resolution.
• Ensure dependencies across teams and initiatives are actively managed.
• Process, Tools & Capability Buildout
• Lead the deployment and adoption of program and financial management processes and tools across China initiatives.
• Define and document operating processes; support training, change adoption,…