Responsibilities
Governance:
- Establish the PMO role and create a Center of Excellence in alignment with Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines, quality standards and company requirements.
- Seek implementation efficiencies to meet or exceed the financial expectations established at project initiation.
- Develop, implement, and govern program management processes, tools, templates, policies and metrics.
- Monitor compliance with project policies and standards.
Develop and Deliver Project Management Training
- Develop training materials, such as manuals, guides and training videos for project management methodology, Microsoft Project Online, and Project Management Power BI Dashboards training.
- Provide training and guidance to the project teams and other PMO stakeholders on project management methodology, governance, best practices and the use of templates, standard reports and tools.
Provide Project Management Reporting and Compliance
- Define requirements, design, develop and maintain reports and dashboards with general project information, project status and compliance.
- Monitor and analyze project progress and compliance, and proactively advise management of deviations, risks and issues.
- Engage with project stakeholders to discuss status of new and ongoing projects and provide updates of risks and issues; discuss and follow up on the agreed risk mitigation and issue resolution; provide project assurance.
- Design surveys, undertake data collection, analyze information, and produce reports outlining problems, conclusions and trends.
Profile
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, or related field required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with additional two (2) years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- A minimum of 10 years of project management experience preferred.
- Expert‐level knowledge of project and change management, methodologies, techniques, processes (e.g., Project and Portfolio Management Methodology – PPM).
- Budget, cost and profitability management skills.
- Knowledge of resource management tools.
- Ability to influence without authority.
- Flexible, adaptable and resourceful when managing changing timelines and multiple deliverables.
- Demonstrated leadership ability to establish and manage a high‐performance team.
- Motivated to build relationships at executive levels with technology, solutions, customers and vendor groups.
- Working experience with MS Project Online, MS PowerBI.
- Project management certification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMP.
- Experience engaging with client customers at diverse levels, from senior management to junior level personnel.