Digital PMO Lead at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Digital PMO Lead

Our PMO services team has new job opportunities which are part of our fast growing PwC Operate business. This opportunity can be based in Belfast or Cardiff.  You will be joining this team at an exciting time of significant growth and will have the opportunity to see the team and its offerings continue to develop.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone to join the PMO services team and lead our Digital PMO team. You will be a strong planner, influencer and have a proven track record in project management and delivery. You will bring high energy, thrive on building relationships and continually seek to improve the service offered to clients. If you are able to demonstrate some of the following we want to hear from you:-

• Strong communicator and influencer who is great at connecting the dots at the organisation, strategy, program, and project levels.

• Advanced knowledge of programme and project management and worked in a PMO/Project Management and/or Management Consulting role.

• Able to engage not just on the how, but also the why, demonstrating your experience designing and strategic planning.

• Project team leadership with the ability to mobilise, inspire, and lead your team.

• Demonstrate that you have business and commercial acumen and the ability to build an understanding of the business, to build and shape delivery plans.

• Partnering with senior stakeholders. 

• You will be able to demonstrate the use of tools in change management, dependency management, risk management,  and when to use them, when not to use them, and when it’s time to create new ones

• It would help us if you have experience in a regulatory driven change environment, a banking, technology or manufacturing environment or IT enabled change environment, however this isn’t essential. 

About the role

You will lead a team of 4 people in the Digital PMO team, however there are plans for this to increase. As a growing team embedded within PMO service you can expect to carry out the responsibilities below (but not limited too)

• Market the availability and benefits of the Digital PMO teams

• Embed these into the wider services offering within the PMO team

• Oversee configuration and implementation activities for Cora PPM within the Digital PMO team

• Complete market assessments across the technology landscape and understand the potential implementation of other tools, and how they will benefit the PMO services proposition

• Oversee the development of PMO specific PowerBi dashboards

• Engage with and work alongside senior sales representatives for the suite of digital tools

• Manage the commercial aspects of the team

• Take responsibility for quality checks and management of implementations, and oversee the suite of health checks that are undertaken to support existing implementations.

• Meet the pipeline and revenue targets for that team

What is in it for you?

We’re exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. 

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment

• Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related)

• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package.

• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs. Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC.

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.

• The opportunity to benefit from professional qualifications.

• You will benefit from the ‘Deal’, which reflects the PwC’s commitment to supporting its people and responding to changing working patterns accelerated by COVID. The changes will help embed a hybrid working model and align with PwC’s Net Zero commitment

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Belfast or Cardiff. We do have a wide variety of clients and projects, in other locations within the UK and beyond, and time away from your home office may be required. We can discuss this further as part of the recruitment process.

About PwC Operate

 PwC Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to our clients across a range of situations often associated with their regulatory, risk and/or compliance agendas. With over 2000 staff deployed on large implementation and execution programmes, Operate brings together top talent with a distinctive mix of knowledge and skills. We support clients by providing staff augmentation services, delivering large scale operational programmes and managed solutions. We deliver our client work from a range of locations, providing our clients with cost-effective delivery, access to subject matter expertise and operational excellence disciplines for some of the biggest brands worldwide.