Senior PMO & Transformation Leader

MXP; Graz; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rapid professional growth

Secure long-term employment

Exciting and varied tasks

Great working atmosphere

Job summary

MXP, a cruise-operations software company, is seeking a senior PMO/Programme lead to design and implement project standards and governance across the organisation. You will train teams, drive the PMO mandate, and personally steer the most critical customer implementations and cross-module programs.

You will own the portfolio view, manage interdependencies with external development partners, and drive the GROW transformation programme to closure, reporting into the CEO.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years in project and programme management in software, IT or technology-driven companies, including complex B2B implementation projects.
• Experience leading a PMO, a project portfolio or a transformation programme office.
• Demonstrable experience defining and rolling out project management standards in an organisation.
• Strong training, coaching and facilitation skills.
• Fluency in traditional, agile and hybrid methods.
• Financial literacy: project budgets, forecasts, utilization and margin are part of how you steer, not something you hand to finance.
• Experience managing external development
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Responsibilities

• Define the MXP project management standard: lifecycle, phases, decision gates, roles, artefacts and templates — proportionate to a company of our size.
• Establish project SOPs for the three project types we run: customer implementations, internal core projects, and larger module enhancements.
• Integrate the standard with our existing enhancement and release process (ticket → business requirements document → decision → quote → development → test → release) rather than building something alongside it.
• Define resource and capacity planning across modules, and the project reporting that feeds the management dashboard.
• Train and coach module owners, project leads and the wider organisation in the standard: structured sessions, on-the-job coaching, and the example of visibly well-run projects.
• Establish a practical quality bar for who may lead which class of project, and develop people towards it.
• Run project quality reviews and health checks, giving feedback that improves the next project rather than documenting the last one.
• Act as the internal reference point for project management questions across the company.
• Personally lead the most critical and complex projects: major customer implementations, cross-module programmes and transformation workstreams.
• Steer projects across module boundaries and across our external development partners.
• Escalate early and with a recommendation — surface problems while they are still cheap.
• Lead the PMO as a function: its mandate, its standards, its people and its standing in the organisation.
• Own the portfolio view — one consolidated, current picture of every core project MXP is running, with status, risk, resource load and interdependencies.
• Own delivery of the transformation programme: its core projects run over your table and are driven through to closure, each with an owner, a criterion and a date.
• Run the programme steering rhythm so that slippage, blockers and resource conflicts across the portfolio surface early and get decided rather than collected.
• Feed the portfolio and programme picture into the management dashboard and the monthly management routine, so the leadership group steers on one view.
• Together with the CEO, lead the transformation programme end to end the, and personally run its most critical workstreams.

Skills

PMO experience

Portfolio management

Project standards

Training & coaching

Hybrid methodologies

Financial literacy

External development

Fluent English

Job description

MXP, a cruise-operations software company, is seeking a senior PMO/Programme lead to design and implement project standards and governance across the organisation. You will train teams, drive the PMO mandate, and personally steer the most critical customer implementations and cross-module programs.

You will own the portfolio view, manage interdependencies with external development partners, and drive the GROW transformation programme to closure, reporting into the CEO.