Head of Project Office

1 month ago

Slough, United Kingdom Orange Business Full time

**About the role**:
Within the context of a professional services environment, we need a Head of Project Office to lead and ensure that all team members uphold the company's standards by establishing delivery guidelines within a governance framework and ensure planned results are achieved on time.

We are looking for a dedicated individual to join our team as a Head of Project Office. The responsibilities include providing guidance to PM’s, implementing policies and processes, measuring project progress against business case KPI’s, provide management reports focussed on time, cost and quality of delivery and setup a demand managament function to size and control new work coming into the team.

To be successful as a Head of Project Office, you should demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills. Ultimately, a top-notch Head of Project Office should be well organized, proactive and able to work under pressure.
- Establishing the role of the project office within a large team of project professionals
- Collaborating with pre-sales and acount leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects
- Analyzing financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation
- Provide programme reporting to internal executives
- Providing internal financial reports and budget outlines to executives
- Assit the PM teams in providing reporting to external customers
- Overseeing the development of projects and ensuring that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently while upholding the company's standards.
- Drafting new and improving existing project office policies, processes and standards
- Accurately documenting/recording project creation, development, and execution as well as documenting/recording the project scope and budget.
- Enuring that projects are prioritized and aligned to short
- and long-term goals of the business and customer expectations
- Esuring that the right people have access to the right information to make the right decisions and that the projects are staying within the planned time and budget tolerance
- Ensuring there is ongoing risk assessment and mitigation across all projects
- Elimination of silos of spreadsheets
- Create visibility of resource capacity, competency, and availability for all stakeholders
- Establish a real-time resource scheduling to accommodate the fast-changing ground reality
- Aligning remote teams and bringing everyone on the same page
- Communicating faster with the right person without chaos
- Implements Standards and Best Industry Practices
- Mentor and Train Project Managers

**About you**:

- Clear and defined experience working within a project office and i ideally in setting up and running a project office team
- The ability to engage and manage key internal and external stakeholders
- Working in international evironments and successfully interacting with people from multiple different cultures
- Project management or programme management delivery experience
- Bid management experience
- Experience in risk management, governance, resource management and operational support.
- Experience in working within a pre-sales environment preferably as part of a squad or tribe
- Technical knowledge in an assurance management role
- A minimum of 15 years' experience in working within a Project/Programme Management Office
- A project panagement professional certification may be advantageous (such as PMP, Prince2, MSP, Agile, SAfe).
- Strong leadership skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong attention to detail and technicalities.
- Excellent organizational and good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.

**Additional information**:
Equal job opportunity

**Department**:
International Zone

L’ambition d’Orange Business est de devenir l’intégrateur réseaux et numérique de référence en Europe, en nous appuyant sur nos forces autour des solutions de connectivité nouvelle génération, du cloud et de la cybersécurité.

Nos 30 000 femmes et hommes présents dans 65 pays, dont chaque voix compte, sont tous animés par la même détermination et le même esprit d’équipe, pour construire les solutions digitales d’aujourd’hui et de demain et créer un impact positif pour nos clients, pour leurs salariés et pour la planète.

Nous offrons des opportunités passionnantes grâce à des projets innovants dans la data et le digital, le cloud, l’IA, la cybersécurité, l’IoT, ou encore le digital workspace et le big data.
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