PMO Manager - Germany

Bluefish Communications is seeking a PMO Manager to deliver consultancy services as part of a managed service with a global telecoms service provider into multiple large-scale corporate leaders in the Dusseldorf area.

As part of our managed service delivering PMO services on behalf of the global telecoms provider, successful consultants will be responsible for the following:-

• Governance: PMO governance, to provide support for project sponsors, decision makers, and stakeholders involved in customer programmes and projects. Documenting governance decisions and tracking action items for future governance.
• Performance Management/Reporting: Performance management function, to provide project level status reporting and generate the program level status for executive reviews. The PMO will investigate specific performance issues and will communicate early warning signs of troubled projects. The PMO will enforce consistent performance reporting guidelines so that each project reports project performance consistently.
• Schedule Management: The schedule management function will assist by identifying project level milestones and where necessary, integrating them into an overall programme level plan for senior management. The PMO will also monitor schedule variances and recommend corrective action.
• Financial Management: Tracking actual spend and forecasting future costs. Reporting cost variances and adjusting programme forecasts based on change control.
• Risk, Issue and Scope Management: The PMO will support individual projects by identifying and evaluating risk, issues and change requests to a project using client processes and tools where applicable. The PMO will manage the specific reviews and document key decisions.
• Resource Management: Use the established client resource management model and tracking utilisation. The PMO will manage the data collection and reporting process.
• Quality Management: The PMO will provide quality management by providing expertise in quality control, quality assurance, coordinating quality inspections, and process improvements.
• Communications Management: The PMO will help to maintain and improve where possible, client's communication standards for projects to follow. The PMO will also assist the client Project Managers in developing necessary communications to project stakeholders.

With an initial 3 months on offer, successful consultants would be exposed to our further pipeline of engagements and in order to retain strong consultants, we would always look to re-engage consultants who had delivered successful projects on our behalf. Therefore, we would expect to want to retain the PMO manager for 12 months upwards. Competent German language skills will be vital to successful delivery in this engagement.

For more information on this engagement and how to join a rapidly-expanding Professional Services consultancy, send a word-formatted CV to Mike Bartlett via the link below.