Beschreibung
Job Title: PMO Manager (Bi-Lingual German and English speaking)
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months with extensions
Location: Mannheim, Germany or Zurich, Switzerland
Rate: Up to €850 per day
Start: ASAP
Purpose of role
We are looking for a PMO Manager to play a key role in delivery of client Transformation Programmes.
As a PMO Manager and specialist you will work closely with the Programme Teams to manage their workload and documentation, as well as ensuring compliance with appropriate Governance and Quality arrangements. You will embed common tools and processes across the Programme, and assist with planning and research where required.
The projects we support typically include both operational and technical transformation, so the successful candidate will need to demonstrate experience of running a PMO as part of a wider business transformation project. We also often work in complex, multi-agency environments, so experience of working effectively with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver a successful PMO is highly desirable.
Key Accountabilities
- Understands the key stages of project and programme management methodology
- Manages and works within the PMO of medium sized projects
- Ensures all business case and project management documentation is produced to an appropriate standard
- Ensures project and programme benefits are identified and agreed, and that appropriate tracking and reporting mechanisms are in place
- Maintains visibility of cumulative status and progress of projects by co-ordinating the production and circulation of relevant management information
- Uses established project methodologies to control, log, manage and monitor project timescales, costs, risks, assumptions, change control, issues and dependencies; benefit realisation, milestones and outcomes; stakeholders and communications; and budgets, ensuring the right level of quality is achieved and escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs.
- Defines and implements the overall planning approach, obtains acceptance and buy-in to the approach from all stakeholders and ensures planning standards and guidelines are adhered to across the programe, providing guidance and coaching to colleagues as appropriate.
- Ensures all resourcing requirements are identified.
- Maintains financial oversight across projects/programmes, to ensure delivery to planned cost and benefit.
- Builds and maintains external and internal networks to identify best practice and to build the profile and capability of the PMO.
- Manages, motivates and develops assigned team members to create a high performing team.
- Ensures project closedown documentation is produced to an appropriate standard
- Proactive in the development of quality plans and individual work packages.
- Prepare and report to the Programme Board compined Project Highlight Reports and End Stage Reports
- Prepare and report benefit of projects to the Design Authority and Programme Board
- Prepare the Lessons Learned Report and any Follow-on Action Recommendations required
- Prepare the End Programme Report
About you
Skills and Experience
Academic and Professional Qualifications
- Holds, or is working toward PRINCE2® practitioner qualification or equivalent
- Ability to apply appropriate project and programme management frameworks and templates to suit client needs
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with clients
- Demonstrable understanding of Telco and Sales through Service markets
- Demonstrable understanding of the project and programme life cycle
- Ability to use and understand MS Project plans
- Good MS Excel/PowerPoint/Visio skills
- Strong written and oral presentation skills
- Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of an organisation
- Degree (2:1 or higher) or equivalent qualification
- Associate membership of APM or equivalent
- German and English speaking skills