Global Deployment Mission
Within NielsenIQ Global Customer Organization, Global Deployment mission is to be the trusted central hub for deployment expertise, driving service excellence, customer satisfaction, and maximizing the impact of technology on business outcomes, all while ensuring continuous stability and reliability of our core products.
Our primary focus is on facilitating, supporting, and coordinating elements crucial for projects success, including strategic alignment, enabling tool or platform integration, and adherence to timelines
Role Overview
As part of the Global Deployment organization, the APAC Deployment Lead/PMO owns end-to-end delivery of deployments across APAC (inclusive of India) markets, combining program management discipline with hands-on deployment leadership. This role is accountable for tasks such as client onboarding planning, requirement and risk validation, cross-functional coordination, escalation management, regional governance, and transition to BAU, ensuring deployments are well-planned, consistently executed, and fully visible to local, regional, and global stakeholders.
The role serves as APAC’s primary interface into the Global Deployment ecosystem, ensuring regional execution aligns with global standards, while reflecting local market needs to drive high-quality deployment outcomes.
Core Responsibilities
End-to-End deployment ownership from intake through GoLive and BAU transition, validating scope, requirements, readiness, and dependencies while coordinately delivery with cross-functional teams to ensure milestones are met and properly managed
Effectively manage relationships with cross-functional teams such as Ops, Product, Sales Engineering, CS, Sales, and other critical project stakeholders
Drive delivery discipline through structured project planning, timeline maintenance, RAID logs, execution tracking, and documentation
Capture lessons learned, maintain regional documentation and SOPs, and contribute to ongoing evolution of Global Deployment playbooks, FAQs, and ways of working
A Little Bit About You
You thrive in fast-paced, constantly evolving project environments where priorities shift, inputs are imperfect, and progress depends on your ability to adapt, recalibrate, and keep momentum moving forward. You’re energized by turning ambitious ideas into reality through iterative, cross-functional collaboration and are comfortable navigating ambiguity, balancing structure with flexibility, and regrouping quickly when conditions change.