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The Senior Project Management Office (PMO) Manager is an advanced subject matter expert, responsible for supporting the optimization of internal effectiveness and driving execution in support of business goals and priorities.

The key responsibility of this role includes building the PMO practice, methodologies, standards and processes, and ensuring they are completed on time and within budget, as well as ensuring adherence to and upholding standards throughout each phase of the project, from origination through to execution and launch.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintains the PMO, including defining its mission, goals, and objectives.
• Contributes towards developing and enforces governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure consistency and alignment with organizational strategies.
• Contributes towards defining and implements project management standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Contributes towards establishing project management processes, templates, and tools to ensure consistent and effective project delivery.
• Defines and implements project reporting requirements and metrics to track project performance, milestones, risks, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Generates reports and dashboards to provide visibility to stakeholders and senior management.
• Contributes towards developing resource management processes to effectively allocate and optimize project resources.
• Collaborates with resource managers to ensure adequate resource availability and capacity planning for projects.
• Supports with providing training and development opportunities for project managers and project team members.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO and project management practices.
• Identifies areas for improvement, streamline processes, and implement lessons learned to enhance project delivery efficiency and effectiveness.
• Supports with implementing risk management processes to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks.
• Facilitates risk reviews, support risk response planning, and monitor risk mitigation actions
• Assist with establishing communities of practice and platforms for sharing best practices and lessons learned.
• Assists with establishing performance metrics and conducts periodic assessments to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the PMO
• Performs any other relevant task as required.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Versatile, flexible and resilient with excellent emotional intelligence.
• Practical, hardworking, hands-on results-oriented with the ability to achieve high quality results drive outcomes and impact at scale.
• Excellent ability to plan and organize effectively.
• Ability to effectively work with senior stakeholders within the business, with excellent verbal and written communication.
• Self-aware of strengths and weaknesses and embraces failure as an opportunity for learning and growth.
• High attention to detail with the ability to apply problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent at both analytical and system thinking.
• Requires conceptual thinking and analysis of intangibles to understand advanced issues and implications to develop solutions with longer term impacts.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in project management or Business or Information Technology or a related field.
• Relevant Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Required experience:

• Advanced experience managing programs in technology or global enterprise companies would be considered a big advantage.
• Advanced PMO experience gained in similar environment would be considered a big advantage.
• Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders.
• Advanced demonstrated understanding of the project life cycle.
• Advanced demonstrated competency in project change management.
• Advanced proven experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.

Workplace type:
Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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