Manager Strategy and PMO

As a key member of our Technology function, you will play a crucial role in driving strategy alignment, fostering cross-team collaboration, and ensuring the successful execution of technology initiatives. Your responsibilities will include: Collaborating with Technology senior leadership to develop and refine the technology function's strategy, ensuring it aligns with the company's overall goals and objectives. Facilitating collaboration and communication across technology teams and business teams, including Finance, HR, Admin, and Procurement. Developing cross-functional project plans and overseeing their execution, monitoring progress, and reporting on outcomes. Working with senior leadership to establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and objectives for the technology function, using dashboards, PPTs, or PowerBI for monitoring and identifying areas for improvement. Creating standardized templates for reporting to ensure uniformity across all projects, initiatives, and programs. Managing and coordinating large-scale technology programs to ensure timely and within-budget delivery, including developing program plans, resource allocation plans, and risk management plans. Preparing and presenting technology function updates, progress, and plans to the Executive Committee during monthly reviews, ensuring alignment with the company's overall strategy. Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external, to drive technology function goals and objectives effectively. Supporting special projects and initiatives as required and documenting technology function processes, policies, and procedures. To be successful in this role, you should possess: 6-8 years of experience in an IT company with a strong background in goal formulation, program management, and stakeholder management. The ability to independently create presentations based on discussions with senior leadership and excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to analyze complex data and derive actionable insights. Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing large-scale programs, along with strong project management skills. The capability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and deadlines, and the initiative to organize tech expos or events to showcase tech initiatives. Nice to have qualifications include experience in similar roles like Chief of Staff or Operations, familiarity with agile development methodologies and DevOps practices, and certification in program management such as PMP or Agile. Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools like Tableau or Power BI will be an added advantage.,