The Key Responsibilities:

• Recommend and drive the implementation of the centralised IT application for project portfolio management and reporting
• Develop and implement consistent project metrics and reporting processes, tools, and standards including: scope, schedule, budget, and risk
• Execute (and support if needed) preparation by project managers of required project documentation including project business cases / schedules / budgets / other standard documents
• Support if needed, project managers with project requests, cost-benefit analysis, return on investment analysis and other related project investment analysis
• Develop a standard views on project portfolio and own the process of progress reporting both by:
  • project managers
  • summary overviews for company management, and drive adoption across the organization
• With support of a project portfolio management IT application create the IT demand and supply views and supporting analyses
• Support the process of decisions on projects’ priorities, of project portfolio committee, with preparation of materials/reports, as well as document and communicate decisions to relevant stakeholders
• Oversee quality of project deliverables with respect to project documentation
• Drive standardization of emerging project management best practices
• Execute key project milestones communication within organisation with support of best practice methods and IT applications (eg. Sharepoint)

 Job requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in PMO in international environment with focus on IT-centric projects
• Experience in project portfolio reporting (including budgets)
• Experience in implementing project portfolio management methodologies and governance
• Experience with software packages supporting management of projects and project portfolio
• Ability to support project managers in developing project documentation to enable:
• Clear deliverables and budgets
• Clear deliverable ownership
• Clear progress reporting
• Experience auditing projects and/or conducting lessons learned sessions at project completion
• Experience with the tactical management of project issues to ensure closure and that project activities don’t get missed/neglected
• Sound skills in the area of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint, MS Project
• Know how of finance and accounting issues typical for IT projects
• Ability to establish and foster healthy professional relationships
• Ability to work with a team to analyse and redesign project portfolio processes to improve performance, communication and increase the value, reliability, and predictability of projects
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Acute attention to detail, execution-minded maintains a focus on quality control
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent English (other Central/Eastern Europe language a plus)
• Master’s degree (business or IT)