PMO Lead

**We Want You**:
**You Bring**:

- Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience.
- Relevant Project Management Certifications PMP, Prince II, Scrum Master (required).
- A minimum of 5 years in the Software Development/IT industry, managing several projects and delivery points simultaneously.
- 8+ years of project management experience, including tracking and planning projects.
- 8+ years of experience working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment.
- 2+ years of previous experience with gathering requirements from the client/business and documentation.
- A minimum of 4 years of experience, adeptly managing the full product lifecycle, including a comprehensive understanding of development lifecycles and diverse technology methodologies such as SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, and SDLC/Waterfall.
- Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organisations.
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
- Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives.
- Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal, and presentation), and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated, and decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.
- Research best practices within and outside the organisation to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.
- Proficient in utilising tools such as MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, along with CA Clarity PPM.
- Possess an extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods, and techniques.

**W**hat You’ll Do**:

- Developing and leading the Project Management Office (PMO).
- Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
- Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
- Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections, and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, and key stakeholders.
- Skilled at being able to translate strategic and tactical plans for execution and implementation at an operational level.
- Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project and program life cycle.
- Identify and develop trusted adviser relationships with project and program stakeholders.
- Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for several initiatives simultaneously.
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
- Ensure detailed project planning and time/cost estimations are prepared for all phases of the projects.
- Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes, by controlling costs and thinking in terms of profit, loss, and added value.
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
- Demonstrate functional and financial acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices.
- Effectively and efficiently manage project scope and changes within budget and for timely delivery.
- Act as an internal quality control check for the project and actively manage ongoing quality control through participation in quality issue resolution.
- Define the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested goods and services.
- Measure all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks, and issues, towards delivery.
- Set and continually manage project/program expectations and take necessary steps to mitigate risk impact, with team members and stakeholders.
- Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program team, analyse results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across leadership.
- Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
- Provide cost versus time versus benefit analysis to assist with decision-making.
- Establish techniques, technologies/tools, processes, and partnerships used in line with industry best practices to increase productivity, quality, and operational expectations, along with the inclusion of regular improvement-base