Global HR Time & Payroll Transformation PMO Lead

Wärtsilä; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wärtsilä is seeking a PMO for its Global HR Time & Payroll Transformation Program. The role provides the tactical PMO backbone for a multicountry, multivendor transformation, ensuring governance, integrated planning and readiness across workstreams.

You will support the Program Manager, regional coordinators and specialist teams, maintaining transparency, disciplined governance and timely issue resolution.

Qualifications

• Experience governing large, multi-country programs with multiple workstreams.
• Ability to produce concise governance packs and executive reports.
• Proficient with standard PMO tools and collaboration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the program governance framework, annual governance calendar, meeting cadence and terms of reference.
• Coordinate agendas, pre-reads, minutes, decisions and action logs for Steering Committee and core teams.
• Facilitate update meetings and governance forums such as Steering Group and Leadership Team.
• Ensure governance docs are complete, current, approved and stored in repositories.
• Monitor compliance with project management standards, stage gates, templates and control practices.
• Maintain auditable records of key decisions, approvals, scope changes and governance evidence.
• Maintain integrated program plan, milestones, calendars and dependencies across time, payroll, data, tech, finance and regional delivery.
• Drive timely status updates, escalate deviations and manage RAID, dependencies and change logs.
• Produce weekly/monthly program reporting with RAG status and critical-path impacts.
• Support baseline control, change-control administration and schedule reconciliation.

Skills

PMO experience

Global governance

Jira

MS 365

English fluency

Program status reporting

Tools

Jira

Microsoft 365

Teams

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Excel

Asana

Smartsheet

Job description

Wärtsilä is seeking a PMO for its Global HR Time & Payroll Transformation Program. The role provides the tactical PMO backbone for a multicountry, multivendor transformation, ensuring governance, integrated planning and readiness across workstreams.

You will support the Program Manager, regional coordinators and specialist teams, maintaining transparency, disciplined governance and timely issue resolution.