Pmo Portfolio Manager - Morgan McKinley
  • Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
  • via BeBee.com
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Job Description

A seasoned PMO Portfolio Manager is required to lead a multi-year programme for a global business, optimizing the portfolio and driving consistency and excellence in project delivery.
**Job Description** We are seeking a highly experienced PMO Portfolio Manager to join our team. As a key member of the Project Management Office, you will be responsible for managing the project portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and goals. **Key Responsibilities:** • Manage the project portfolio, demand and intake process, and ensure alignment with organizational strategies and goals. • Collaborate with senior management to understand organizational strategies and goals. • Direct the development and maintenance of communications and reporting around the project portfolios, their contents, and individual performance of initiatives to stakeholders and senior executives. • Engage with and conduct quarterly reviews with senior business, IT, executives, stakeholder groups, and other relevant bodies to validate and assess the project portfolio, execute change, and reprioritize to meet business needs. • Monitor and report on the overall health and performance of the project portfolio. • Provide recommendations on portfolio adjustments to better align with changing business priorities. • Work with project teams to manage the full range of the project life cycle (initiate, plan, execute, close) for projects. • Ensure the oversight and coordination of dependencies across the projects and programs in the portfolio, and resolve or escalate conflicts. • Forecast high-level resource needs across the portfolio, balance the availability of required skills and competencies across project and program teams. • Develop and maintain project management tools, processes, and templates. • Propose appropriate tooling where practical. • Provide mentoring, guidance, and coaching on PMO best practice, lead professional development sessions for PMO staff. • Ensure consistency and standardization in project execution and documentation. • Conduct regular project reviews and audits to ensure adherence to standards. **Requirements:** • Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Commerce, Technology, or a related field. • Masters an advantage. • 10+ years of experience in a PMO, 5+ years as a Portfolio or PMO Manager delivering complex technical transformations in large-scale enterprises using both waterfall and agile methodologies. • Expert understanding of portfolio and project management methodologies, tools, and best practices. • Strategic thinking and the ability to align projects with organizational goals. • Strong commercial and technical acumen. • Analytical thinking - ability to understand a situation by segmenting and tracing implications step by step. • Pf MP, PMP, Pg MP, or Prince2 certifications. **Benefits:** • Pension • Healthcare • Bonus

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