Sr Director, PMO

Job Overview & Responsibilities

The Sr. Director, PMO leads, engages and oversees Oracle engagements in the role of engagement manager. This role focuses on implementation strategies, approaches and timelines, with the goal to ensure high quality deliveries in technical engagements. The Sr. Director, PMO supports all sales activities in the portfolio, to include demos, presentations, RFP pricing and responses through the SOW development process. This role handles problem analysis, escalation and resolution of client engagements and works collaboratively across the practice, engaging with other departments and teams as required. This role operates at the highest level of complexity and independently determines solutions and responses to complex problems and situations. The Sr. Director, PMO will also have administrative and operational oversight of the PMO team, leading a team of senior project managers who are managing large IT consulting projects. The team of project managers have a portfolio of long duration or high value consulting engagements that require seasoned project managers and vary in length. These projects are typically Oracle SaaS, large cloud migrations, or high tier clients in the state, Local and commercial sector.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop implementation strategies, approaches and timelines to ensure quality of all delivery for all oversight engagements.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with project sponsors, steering committee members and C-Level executives.
• Contribute to Mythics ongoing methodology improvements and delivery capabilities.
• Forecast and staff of all project engagements.
• Support all sales activities including demo presentations and support, RFP pricing and responses through SOW development.
• Assist in assignedpractice performance management processes.
• Engage in periodic/regular engagement status reporting to Delivery and Consulting leadership.
• Resolution/solutioning of issues and gaps where the project team needs assistance.
• Escalate any project issues or risks to Delivery leadership.
• Stay current with evolving Oracle products and technology.
• Work in close cooperation with other areas of the organization.
• Present portfolio project quality, client and team satisfaction, and project success metrics during project review meetings with Delivery Management.
• Track and report weekly on percentage complete, schedule, burn, slippage, issues risks, and opportunities and other key project indicators on assigned portfolio.
• Keep an accurate issues & risk tracking document with an associated mitigation plan on assigned portfolio.
• Understand revenue models, P/L, cost-to-completion projections and be able to make decisions independently, in-line with business plan objectives.
• Understand consulting pricing models and billing procedures.
• Accurately forecast revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization.
• Track and report team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.
• Manage project portfolio budgets and project profitability.
• Conduct meetings with the accounting team as required to review project portfolio financial health.
• Lead and mentor a team of 20+ project managers.
• Draft new and improving existing project management office policies and processes.
• Evaluate projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines.
• Portfolio status reporting – authoring, communications, impact/risk assessments, etc.
• Lead management and account meetings by providing insights on assigned portfolio accounts, project schedule, scope and budget.

Other Duties

• Perform all other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in an IT-related field or equivalent work experience, required.
• 20+ years of work experience.
• 10+ years of experience implementing Oracle applications (Implementations, Upgrades or Support).
• 12+ years in Consulting Services and 5+ years working with Public Sector clients.
• Experienced with the increased importance of Change Management for Oracle Cloud Implementations.
• Must have experience collaborating with clients on business process reengineering across all pillars.

 

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities (KSAs):

• Excellent team building, mentoring, and leadership abilities
• Strong communication skills to be able to work with clients and present to director and/or C-level executives
• Ability to multi-task, focused on planning and organization
• Knowledge in multiple implementation methodologies (Agile, Wat