Program Director - Program Manager - PMO

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Field consulting role delivering high end program management services

Key Relationships:
Responsibility for overseeing the PMO and several Project Managers, this can be on-site and off-shore.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
The conduit between the delivery teams and client management. The principle goal is to manage the complexities of a large scale program on behalf of the client, to ensure that business benefits are realised for the client and you optimise the performance of the engagement.

Specific responsibilities:

• Effective start-up and definition of programs and projects.
• Alignment of programs and projects with business benefits realisation.
• Alignment of programs and projects with strategic objectives.
• Ensuring the effective collaboration and alignment between all involved parties (on-shore and off-shore).
• Leading the effective operations of the Program Office.
• Providing a framework to effectively run and track all projects within a program.
• Providing proactive resolution of issues and risks.
• Mitigation of impacts caused by unforeseen or unplanned situations.
• Managing program finances in collaboration with the client.
• Managing and maximising stakeholder relations.

Key Performance Indicators:              

• Effective start-up and definition of programs and projects
• Alignment of programs and projects with strategic objectives.
• Ensuring the effective collaboration and alignment between all involved parties.
• Leads the effective operations of the Program Office.
• Provided a framework to effectively run and track all projects within a program.
• Provides proactive resolution of issues and risks.
• Successful mitigation of impacts caused by unforeseen or unplanned situations.
• Managed program finances in collaboration with the client.
• Managed and maximised stakeholder relations and engagement.

Position Specification:
Qualifications, Experience & Specialist Skills:

• Bachelor level Degree (required).
• Master level Degree (preferred).
• PMP or equivalent certification.
• Agile qualifications (preferred).
• At least 12 years of demonstrated relevant experience.
• Must have worked with both onshore/offshore teams.
• Held budgetary responsibility for programs and projects in the order of at least $5m.
• Ability to travel (Interstate and international)
• Has run at least 1-2 successful large programs with full accountability in preferably one or more of the following spaces:
  • o Large Organisational Transformation.
  • o Large Development / implementation.
  • o ERP/CRM/BI Implementations.
  • o PMO Design, Build, Operate.

Management Skills:

• Experience in dealing with multiple of the following PM processes in the decreasing order of importance:
  • Stakeholder Management (Ongoing, dynamic, active engagement with all stakeholders and not just someone who can create a slide on Stakeholder Management).
  • Benefits Identification / Tracking (Involvement on Business Case Development and designing and running Benefits Management structures for ongoing tracking of benefits achieved).
  • Multi Party Integration (This can have various dimensions - multiple work stream management, multiple vendor management, multiple client business groups' involvement, etc.).
  • Project Portfolio Management (Emphasis on experience in helping the client make decisions around "Doing the Right Things" as opposed to the after the fact reporting based portfolio management).
  • Budget Management (Experience managing various engagement models, e.g. Fixed Price, Fixed Capacity, T&M, etc, particularly fixed price management)
  • Resource Management (Strategic view covering projecting/forecasting resource needs as well as tactical day to day resource fulfilment based view).

  
Interpersonal Skills:

• Excellent Communication Skills (both verbal and non-verbal).
• Assertive and confident.
• Able to thrive in ambiguous situations.
• Able to interact at Director and ‘C’ level within the client organisation as a consultative peer.
• Proven critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and lead large teams (onshore/offshore mix).
• Strong client interaction and engagement skills.
• Proactive as opposed to a reactive style of management.
• Sound organisational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.

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