Country Project Management Portfolio Lead

7 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom Expleo Full time

Overview:
Expleo is a global company and trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are looking for an individual that can provide authoritative leadership, direction, guidance, and services with regards to project management in support of Project and Operational teams in their execution of projects managed across the Business.

**Responsibilities**:

- Coordinate strategic activities with relevant peers/stakeholder groups across the business
- Ensure that effective governance and project management good practice is in place across areas of accountability
- Ensure that effective portfolio management is implemented within the Expleo Engineering sector and manage progression of opportunities through identification, bid development, launch and execution
- Responsible for ensuring effective governance at appropriate levels and managing review of significant projects as required
- Promotion of the general culture and professionalism of project management throughout the business, including professional growth of individuals and the overall PM function
- Depending on the PMO model may own, recruit and resource the business with required PM resource, deploying the agreed resource pool and managing this within the agreed corporate and business headcount
- Being an authority in relation to portfolio, programme and project management and maintaining that status by continuing professional development and networking with like professionals across the business within wider industry and within professional bodies
- Proactive improvement of project management processes and performance in line with company management processes.

Qualifications:

- Qualified to Degree level or equivalent

**Skills**:

- Standing Alone
- Command Skills
- Managing Vision & Purpose
- Decision Quality
- Dealing with Ambiguity
- Business Acumen
- Strategic Agility
- Customer Focus
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Negotiating
- Problem Solving
- Drive for Results
- Planning
- Priority Setting
- Managing Through Systems
- Process Management
- Peer Relationships
- Building Effective Teams
- Motivating Others

Desired Skills:

- Project Benefits Management
- Project Context and Terminology
- Project Governance Management
- Project Integration Management
- Project Communications Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Contractual and
Procurement Management
- Project Schedule Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Resource Management
- Project Risk & Opportunity Management
- Project Domain Competence

**Experience**:

- Externally recognised as an expert in project management
- Specialist functional/technical experience e.g. portfolio, scheduling, earned value management, risk management - using appropriate tools/systems
- Able to communicate and articulate project management aspects in an easy and understandable manner
- Experience in, and knowledge of the wider project management processes and understanding of project / programme / portfolio management integration
- Can clearly demonstrate previous experience of project management and how it has influenced project outcome/delivery

**Benefits**:

- Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
- We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more
- Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

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