Director Pmo Jobs

Overview

Reporting to the Chief Delivery Officer, the Director - PMO provides strategic direction, guidance, tactical planning, evaluation, and coordination of the PMO Department.

Who Are You?

You're an energetic person with a can-do attitude with a track record of building success. You have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Improve through (IDP) training and certifications for PM practice
• Be proactive in anticipating challenges/risks – identify & execute mitigation plans
• Provides strategic direction, guidance, tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of the PMO department in the organization.
• Drive the right solutions as a customer advocate in all streams – building business confidence in engineering
• Prepare regular status reports to all levels of the business
• Build cohesion within the PMO team and motivate the team to meet the business objectives
• Build ecommerce & ERP understanding for efficient delivery
• Responsible for improving project delivery, processes, systems, and guidance
• Coordinate geographically distributed teams & build ownership
• Ensure the successful implementation of the PMO's strategy, responsibilities, services, and deliverables
• Monitor and report on project progress and advise stakeholders of potential project delays or resources required to complete the project on a timely basis
• Develop and implement a strategy for the PMO and project delivery to assist in the business meeting or exceeding its forward strategy
• Provide support to project planning, milestone management, scope management, resource forecasting; financial management; change management across the PMO
• Execute the plan strictly and raise alerts/escalations from time to time
• Ensure efficient change control methods and processes are utilized
• Recruit and develop Project Management resources
• Be a PM professional Champion in the Organization – enhance the professional depth
• Ensure project success on all parameters – Scope, Cost, Schedule & Quality through PM resources
• Conduct regular standup/SCRUM conversations – with PDCA cycle/discipline
• Define and embed project control and governance
• Lead the way through quality deliverables all along the project life cycle
• Avoid gold plating & drive proper change management with well-documented IAD

Requirements

• Be the face of the company to everyone & hold high standards of professionalism
• Builds business trust in engineering – driving quality delivery
• Experience in IT project management – entire life-cycle
• At least a few years of client-facing experience
• Follows and passionately promotes quality best practices throughout the entire cycle of the project
• Perseverance & ability to work under ambiguous/stressful circumstances
• Uses judgment to determine optimal solutions and is a pathfinder on complex problems/situations
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate and influence the direction
• Understand triple constraints & quality management metrics
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and
• Has a clear understanding of various (SDLC & SCRUM etc.) development models
• Proficient in verbal & written communications
• Energy to fill in in case of challenging contexts & emerge successful
• 15 - 18 years of experience across multiple roles (Analyst/Dev/Test) in the IT industry
• Bachelor's/Master's degree
• Excellent conflict management skills
• Proven ability to work pragmatically with a problem-solving attitude
• Has energy & can-do attitude – a track record of building success along the career
• At least ten years of Project management
• Good track record of dealing with US & Europe clients
• Understands WBS/Scope, Change management, Risk Management & Quality Management processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Good knowledge of tools like MS Project / Primavera / Wrike / Others
• Experience in managing teams across multiple time zones
• PMI ACCP / CAPM certified

*Just so you know, this job description is not designed to cover or include a comprehensive listing of the employee's activities, duties, or responsibilities required for this job. In addition, duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.