Director, Project Management Office Job Description
Director, project management office
provides ongoing coaching and subject matter expertise in Project Management/Six Sigma methodologies, tools, deliverables and best practices.
Director, Project Management Office Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Establish and implement a Project Management Framework, governance practices, and methodologies and roll out program globally
Oversee the development and maintenance of common standards and methodologies for project management
Provide the day-to-day leadership for the team of Project Managers engaged in the implementation of complex client Human Capital Management solutions
Ensure best of class project management disciplines are being executed, and that consistent, effective communication plans are in place to all key stakeholders
Identify issues and assess project risks quickly and proactively, taking appropriate actions as required
Be a thought leader for Project Leadership with both Associates and clients
Deploy a tool set that supports Project Management best practices and provides the appropriate level of information capture, reporting, control, information sharing, and management insight
Provide timely and accurate reporting of the status of both individual and the portfolio of projects
Manage project scope and implement change control procedures across the team to ensure that changes to deliverables or functionality are handled appropriately
Develop the technical capability and expertise of the company and its Associates by ensuring the transfer of relevant project management best practices
Director, Project Management Office Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Director, Project Management Office
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, CSM, DFSS, LEAN, FPX, PROSCI, ACMP, PMO, BRM
Education for Director, Project Management Office
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the director, project management office job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Project Management, Computer Science, Education, Management, Engineering, Business/Administration, MBA, Information Systems, Information Technology
Skills for Director, Project Management Office
Desired skills for director, project management office include:
MS Office Suite
New product development methodologies
Project planning tools with evidence of practical application
Project scheduling tools
Media and technology industries would be an advantage
Methodologies
Associates are to request clarification
Authorized company representatives
Capital allocation process and project accounting best practices
Clarity PPM system and expertise in Microsoft Suite
Desired experience for director, project management office includes:
Prepare statements of work for project management services, consulting with Sales and Service leaders to ensure appropriate project sizing and management of client expectations
Establish and control revenue and expense budgets for the department
Ownership of the Implementation process for Alternate Channels Contact Centres ensuring business, client and employee needs are balanced and met
Provide communication support on key initiatives for frontline and executive audiences
Provide leadership and direct oversight on key strategic initiatives
Ensure that all projects are proceeding according to timelines, meeting targets and expectations, and adhering to established operating parameters
Director, Project Management Office Examples
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Director, Project Management Office Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a director, project management office. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for director, project management office
- Lead, influence, negotiate and work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Creating and implementing communications to deliver timely, fact based communications about the status of key initiatives
- Ensure projects are defined, tracked, and executed in a consistent and effective manner that will maximize project success
- Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring and developing quality employees
- Participate in, champion and adopt function and/or corporate initiatives, changes and/or special project assignments
- Act as the key relationship manager for assigned clients
- Consults with IT Senior Leadership and sub teams to build strategic technology program and project roadmaps for the Information Technology department
- Formulates approaches that achieve desired business outcomes, including defining system scope and requirements, assisting with business case justification and presentation to Executive Management, Supporting Total Cost of Ownership definition and ongoing value proposition
- Consult with stakeholders and reviews projects to determine goals, time frame, funding needs, procedures for accomplishing project, SDLC/deliverable strategy, staffing requirements and allotment of resources
- Lead project related vendor management activities
Qualifications for director, project management office
- Excellent communication skills including verbal and written communication, facilitation, and negotiation
- Diversity - Demonstrates knowledge of EEO policy
- Ability to negotiate, influence and build credibility internally and externally
- Proven experience working implementing and administering Marketing systems
- PMP, Six Sigma or equivalent certification required
- Experience with IT Organization design and management principles/techniques (ITIL, ITSM) IT PMO Management tools
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Our growing company is hiring for a director, project management office. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for director, project management office
- Responsible for accumulating and disseminating PMO best practices
- Provide best practice implementation support on front and back office technology solutions including Bloomberg AIM/SimCorp, Vermillion/Coric, Bloomberg PolarLake/Markit EDM
- Manage and drive corporate data strategy at a divisional or line of business level through a centralised data governance model with a federated operational structure
- Responsible for playing a leadership role in reference/master data overseeing information architecture and data governance
- Responsible for defining the data analytics infrastructure and the delivery of data quality and governance standards for the Go Project
- Responsible for creating the implementation plan, managing the budget and assigning the roles and responsibilities to team members for
- Responsible for monitoring and controlling projects by performing the work to compare actual performance with planned performance
- Overseeing the work to conclude a project and transfer the completed product to business as usual embedding data policy and establishing data accountability
- Lead and pursue targeted maturity level for resource and project management for the IT organization, designing project management and business analyst artifacts, guidelines, leading practices and frameworks in a decentralized environment
- Establish and integrate measures, metrics, thresholds, and targets to drive performance in alignment with IT and business strategies including risk and operational management metrics
Qualifications for director, project management office
- Define team roles and responsibilities
- Submit / support request for scope, budget, schedule changes as required
- Manage project level reporting
- Drive resolution of project risk and issues and escalate as required
- Resolve project conflicts
- Partner with Finance to develop business cases then, monitor & track results
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Director, Project Management Office Job Description
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Our growing company is looking for a director, project management office. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for director, project management office
- Lead in the evolution of program and project management capabilities, to improve delivery of solutions to business clients, and leverage program and project management knowledge across the portfolio
- Collaborate closely with the IT Resource Management team to determine best fit resource models (procurement, outsourcing, offshoring, or internal design-build) for approved initiatives
- Responsible for oversight of all project managers and business analysts for the IT Management & Operations group
- Provide proactive leadership to the EPMO, assuring communication and cooperation among team members
- Works in partnership with Oshkosh Defense and Corporate Engineering departments to manage and coordinate efforts and initiatives to implement engineering procedures and processes across the organization
- Direct and guide the Project Managers in a standardized approach to project management
- Prepare and manage department budgets and approve expenditures per company policy
- Plan for personnel progression and retention to assure continuity and improvement in personnel
- Develop and execute goals and strategic direction for PLM (product lifecycle management) systems, Strategic Deployment (SD) initiatives, maintain CMMI appraisal, and continuous improvement on project management
- Develop and implement processes for preparing work breakdown structures in accordance with Defense standards (MIL-HDK 881) and integrated master schedules as specified by government contracts
Qualifications for director, project management office
- Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science, business or related discipline
- Ten (10) years direct work experience in an IT project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution
- Experience in successfully coordinating with functional departments
- Experience implementing new PMO organizations or re-establishing PMOs
- Undergraduate degree from an accredited four year program, preferably in computer science or a related area of study
- 2+ years of experience leading development projects using Scrum
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Our company is looking for a director, project management office. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for director, project management office
- Familiarization with processes related to Systems Engineering and has the ability to lay out a Systems Engineering approach to product development
- Provide services and support to other departments in a matrix organization (Program Management, Finance, Business Development, Aftermarket, Operations, and GPSC) such as cost, schedule, and performance tools and metrics development
- Prepare Three Horizon Road Maps for short/mid/long-term Product Development strategic planning
- Understand and facilitate the use of the Oshkosh DAR tool and Proto-type Builder tool
- Coordinate and manage internal and external resources to accomplish project objectives, including change management, project implementation, process improvements, timeline and cost
- Assure the preparation and presentation program status/issues to internal and external customers
- Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for the engineering project management office including, but not limited to standardized scheduling methods, processes for product break down schedules and other engineering project work performed as required
- Ensures engineering project management work products are completed using world class processes, techniques and engineering/company programs to consistently meet performance, cost and schedule requirements
- Develop and implement corrective action plans when deviations from plan, budgets and/or schedules are evident
- Assign and manage internal, external, multi-divisional, direct and matrixed resources to ensure all projects’ objectives and goals are consistently met or exceeded
Qualifications for director, project management office
- Excellent communication, facilitation, issue management, mediation, and negotiation skills
- 3+ years in senior and/or big 6 consulting roles, including work with multiple clients
- Experience with JIRA, Microsoft Team Foundation server, and MS project
- Proven ability to teach and mentor in formal or informal settings
- Proven experience in building high performing teams
- Advanced degrees (MSCS or MBA)
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of director, project management office. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for director, project management office
- Ability to influence/shape future customer requirements and broaden technology platform to simplify processes
- Directs project management to ensure projects are defined, completed on time, within budget and deliver on defined investment objectives
- Forms partnerships with leaders in all areas of the organization and collaboratively determines courses of action to provision resources to new initiatives and balance mutual goals with line of sight into corporate priorities
- Develop and manage the relationship between IT and other stakeholders, with the goal of defining, planning, building, and assessing the IT investment portfolio
- Provides review of project proposals and plans for time frames, funding and staffing requirements
- Communicates project performance against business objectives, project status, issues and impact at multiple levels while being responsible for schedules, budgets, scope risk and deliverables
- Provide direction and leadership to ensure continual development of PMO employees toward building knowledge, skills, abilities and capacity
- Directs and oversees project financial budgeting and forecasting and aligns project budget with IT funding and business strategic funding
- Maintains and promotes communication regarding project deliverables with respect to scope, schedule, budget and risks
- Develop, coordinate and communicate the processes necessary for implementing a project portfolio and prioritization methodology
Qualifications for director, project management office
- At least 15+ year prior experience of project management at a financial institution
- Proven skills and experience in project portfolio management with the ability to organize and prioritize multiple complex projects and report the high-level projects status to Management
- Proven skills and experience in project planning, budgeting, resource allocation, quality assurance, and monitoring
- A minimum of a degree in engineering, business, and science or quality, regulatory & compliance disciplines is required
- This strategic role requires a diverse business background, with direct experience in medical devices or diagnostics / pharmaceutical, with specific QRC competencies inclusive of product and process innovation, planning, manufacturing, quality systems and compliance is required
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in positions of increasing responsibility supporting large, multi-site, global organizations is required