ASST CHIEF IT PMO.7031800

The position will support organizational and IT leadership in their efforts at overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of IT investments and initiatives to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives. The role aim is to help focus leadership efforts and provide/escalate data around the organizational aim of achieving an optimized mix among the IT project investments, making the best possible use of all resources and delivering the maximum value and benefits from projects and programs within the portfolio. The position includes some aspects and ownership for identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating project and program resources engaged with all or many of the initiatives within the IT project portfolio. This position is responsible for supporting and enabling the organization’s projects, programs and structured work efforts. Ensures that the work of the PMO adds value, is relevant to the strategy of the organization, and meets the goals set for the PMO by executive management.

Management Scope: Coach, lead, guide and mentor the PMO division 1. Facilitate and coordinate the efforts of senior leadership toward the establishment of the project portfolio definition, its structure and processes, from demand management and strategic alignment of projects and programs; to portfolio categories and criteria; through evaluation, selection and prioritization; to execution, tracking and measuring the achieved results

2. Ensure the oversight and coordination of dependencies across the projects and programs in the portfolio, and resolve or escalate conflicts.

3. Defines, manages and directs the needed end-to-end PMO work effort, which includes leveraging best practices and techniques in identifying, quantifying and tracking the realization of expected benefits defined in business cases

4. Builds and maintains relationships with senior leadership and key PMO stakeholders, and acts as a trusted advisor

5. Leads the identification and implementation of project management processes, methods, tools, guidelines and standards in order to establish a stable framework that supports all project teams and stakeholders to improve the probability of successful project delivery

6. Provides ongoing coaching and mentoring to PMO staff and project managers

7. Conduct regular meetings with the senior executive bodies to inform and alert them of any issues arising from the performance of the individual projects within the portfolio to assure the on-plan usage and consumption of resources and funding, and to highlight any variances.

8. Facilitates among the PMO stakeholders and organizational leadership a consensus around the mission and vision of the PMO organization to foster a project-management-oriented culture and mindset 05 E

9. Regularly reviews and evaluates opportunities to improve the project management best practices in order to achieve higher maturity in PPM 05 E

10. Performs other duties as assigned. Education, Experience and Training:

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business administration or related field, or equivalent work experience. PMP Certification, ITIL or equivalent technical certification required. Eight (8) years of management related experience in information technology based project management. Experience in diverse roles and increasing leadership responsibilities across major projects and programs. Demonstrated experience in managing upward among senior leadership. Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams. Substantial consulting leadership experience a plus.

Special Requirements/Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

 Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to develop and communicate the portfolio objectives, inspire and motivate staff, and maintain alignment to the business strategy.
 Possesses a high degree of political sensitivity, astuteness and the ability to effectively use the informal power structure of the organization to achieve success and clear obstacles for the portfolio.
 Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain and sell the portfolio goals and objectives to business as well as technical leadership.
 Strong business acumen, including industry, domain-specific knowledge of the enterprise and its business units. Familiar with industry trends and innovation.
 Strong analytical, conceptual and financial analysis skills, and familiarity with financial reporting tools.
 A distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills. (This is a highly visible position with substantial impact.)
 Highly empathetic and able to vary styles of interaction to match the needs of a variety of business and technical audiences, as well as temperaments and personalities.
 Effective influencing and negotiation experience and skills in an environment with hi