Sr. Director PMO
Worley
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :25 years, 0 أشهر
Leading the Transformation office to prioritize, deliver and govern the digital and technology portfolio. In parallel, supporting the business in creating an optimized operating model aimed to achieve corporate’s ambition and minimize waste.
Key responsibilities:
• Ensuring I&DD portfolio is effectively screened, prioritized, setup, managed, resourced, governed, reported on to ensure key performance metrics are met and/or exceeded aligned to PMO Methodology & Guidelines.
• Work with key stakeholders to develop, embed, monitor and review key PMO related frameworks and work processes to promote agility, fit for purpose, risk & performance based workflows and apply PMO best practices and continuous improvement.
• Accountable for the successful delivery of all the project outcomes - Cost, Schedule & Quality.
• Responsible for end-to-end lifecycle management of each project. This will involve all of the necessary phases - Plan & Analyze, Design, Build, Test, Deploy, Hypercare, Handover to Operations.
• Responsible for change management aspects of training, change and communications for the I&DD Strategy initiatives.
• Continuously assess the team’s skill, knowledge and capability requirements to support the delivery on the portfolio of Projects and Tasks.
• Team member resource allocation tracking to know what projects and tasks team members are working on, their allocation and availability for new work and pipeline of work to ensure the team’s appropriate utilization.
• Ensure timely, cost effective and targeted development and staff sourcing strategies and actions are applied to address any identified gaps within the team.
• Ensure strong business cases / benefits assessment are being developed for initiatives c/w backup, stakeholder input, success metrics, proper review & approvals to help focus priorities and strong ROI
• Work with governance and assurance groups to ensure PMO related activities are in compliance to corporate standards.
• Develop and comply with relevant corporate reporting requirements.
• Lead, drive, celebrate, recognize strong behaviours associated with Company’s values and purpose and strategic direction of the I&DD group.
Acting as trusted parter of the CEO to ensure that the IT portfolio is appropriately stuffed, tracked, managed, and reported with all portfolios & projects working within the defined governance structure and are compliant with the key programme, portfolio & project controls.
Responsible for building the organisational capability required for the business plan through effective organisation design (OD). Ensuring a culture of inclusiveness from top to bottom of the organisation.
Responsible for ensuring that all IT initiatives have: approved funding; plans; appropriate programme management, and are governed in a consistent, transparent, and disciplined manner.
Lead the implementation and management of portfolio, programme and project governance frameworks and development of appropriate reporting tools which deliver value. The portfolio was composed of circa 300 projects with an overall budget of £75 million
Promote Diageo’s Project Delivery Function approach to project/programme management including resource planning and management, preparing resource plans and the monitoring and reporting of project/programme outcomes.
Establish project/programme reporting with a focus on value added advise and early identification and resolution of risk and issues, whilst ensuring full benefit realisation. Coach and mentor project sponsors and managers.
Build high-performance teams with great professionals located globally and ensure that projects and products at Diageo are resourced with the right blend of internal and external skills and capabilities.
Key responsibilities:
• Lead the PMO to support the project in the delivery of Business Case benefits and outcomes. Champion the use of best practice project management standards and processes;
• Manage the PMO team and support the portfolio, program and project managers in the identification, recruitment, development, deployment and reassignment of resources throughout the project lifecycle;
• Establish the project processes and standards for managing risks and issues. Provide assurance to the project manager on the effectiveness of Risk and Issue management arrangements;
• Ensure appropriate governance is in place and arrange external reviews e.g. Gateway Reviews at appropriate points in the project lifecycle. Monitor the effectiveness of controls and ensure that recommendations from external reviews are acted upon;
• Establish and implement protocols to change the scope of projects and/or programmes and update configuration documents as required;
• Establish and operate project controls on behalf of the portfolio, program and project managers, reporting on project progress and status to appropriate bodies. Identify common capabilities and opportunities for linking up, re-using and sharing of methods and resources between projects and programmes. Ensure learning from experience is disseminated across the organisation;
• Identify, develop and share best practice project management processes, tools and templates and benchmarks against industry standard. Provides direction and guidance to the project team;
• Develop strong relationships with senior business stakeholders to influence the delivery of transformation outcomes and achievement of business benefits;
• Act as sponsor for high-profile and high-risk projects
Oversee management and Leonardo clients’ relationships. Accountable for the overall project delivery, client satisfaction and management of expectations while ensuring that the work is on strategy, on time and within budget.
Responsible for ensuring world-class delivery across the EMEA and CIS regions for clients within Oil and Gas, Telco, Retail and Manufacturing industries. Provide leadership, direction and professional development of the resources ensuring skills and knowledge are aligned with requirements. Played a key role building strong business / technology relationships, taking a hands-on approach to drive a culture of continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities:
• Lead IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems;
• Manage delivery of multiple complex end to end digital transformation projects across various clients in the region;
• Hands-on management of delivery stream along with management & growth of a team of Technology Delivery Managers providing coaching, mentoring and development support to drive up delivery capability across the department
• Develop strong and productive relationships with subcontractors, IT partners and with the company’s project team in order to ensure smooth delivery of the projects in accordance with contractual terms and conditions;
• Run multiple delivery streams and clients, to ensure governance at top management level and conduct governance project meetings and identify successful and unsuccessful project factors and gaps;
• Ensure the consistent and reliable delivery of IT Services through the promotion of Agile/Scrum principles and practices and by mentoring individual Scrum team members and stakeholders;
• Manage customer expectations and relationship. Look for opportunities to up/ cross-sell products and services through relationship management
Responsible for the development and implementation of information and technology-based solutions that deliver business value and benefits to the clients within the banking, aviation and energy sectors across Europe and Africa. Actively applied fit for purpose project management principles, practices and processes.
Key responsibilities:
• Drive and manage the successful delivery of large and/or complex multiple simultaneous projects from beginning to end;
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals, in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders;
• Establish and manage effective and trusted relationships with key Business and IT project stakeholders;
• Coordinate the vendor evaluation and selection processes in accordance with Company’s requirements;
• Develop, define and execute project plans, project scope, milestones, budgets and deliverables;
• Identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies and manage change;
• Identify appropriate skill sets required for the project. Provide leadership in forming the appropriate project team in order to meet the project's objectives;
• Ensure a proper and effective resource allocation across the projects;
• Responsible for leading, managing and evaluating the performance of the project team;
• Contribute for the set-up and management of the PMO;
• Ensure customer’s Quality and Project Management methodologies and processes are applied to the proper level of rigor and utilized to facilitate successful project delivery;
• Perform financial analysis, reporting, forecasting and planning activities such as weekly reporting, monthly reporting & analysis, quarterly forecasting & annual budgeting;
• Maintain project schedule, action items and issues to ensure all work is defined, start and end dates solidified, risks identified & mitigated and tasks assigned and managed to closure;
• Responsible for the pre and after sales of the projects for the client BNP Paribas;
• Maintain invoicing activities and ensure payments settlement in timely manner according to the contracts and purchase orders;
• Conduct project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance, handover documentation and ongoing activities to accountable teams and complete a post-implementation review to identify areas of improvement.
Responsible for the successful delivery of multiple, large or complex, IT and technical elements of business led, projects from inception through to delivery, ensuring that all objectives are met within agreed timescales, budget and quality. Managed several IT projects for clients mainly within the banking and public administration sectors.
Key responsibilities:
• Ensure the timely and effective implementation of IT projects in alignment with clients’ business transformation plan;
• Stakeholder management with Internal and external clients to ensure that expectations are managed;
• Facilitate workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a joint understanding of needs;
• Management of risk, issues and dependencies;
• Develop, define and execute project plans, project scope, activities, schedules, budgets and deliverables;
• Production of functional design documentation from business requirements;
• Direct IT development teams and get the best out of developers by communicating priorities, objectives and expectations around deadlines;
• Ensure all requests for development changes are recorded for monitoring/tracking;
• Responsible for monthly financial forecasting, and recording of any project expenditure and reviewing against forecasts;
• Complete thorough acceptance testing in order to meet the requirements of the specification;
• Conduct project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance, handover documentation and ongoing activities to accountable teams and complete a post-implementation review to identify areas of improvement.
