At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery. In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
- Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
- Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
- Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
- Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
- Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
- Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
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Job Summary -
A career in our Managed Services team will give you an opportunity to collaborate with many teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology. Our Strategic Program Management Office Sourcing practice will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations balance long term strategies and short-term imperatives to optimize their investments and strategic activity required to achieve the organization's business objectives. We help enhance organizations project and program performance by identifying alternative project approaches, consistently aligning projects with corporate strategy, setting the tone and pace of programs from the outset, responding quickly and effectively to crisis situations and extracting value from agile program delivery. Our team's roles focus on project portfolio management for both people and client management. Additionally, our team processes services such as portfolio, program, and project management which require a diverse range of skill sets needed and growth opportunities for new and experienced team members.
Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *:
Bachelor’s Degree
Degree Preferred
Bachelor's degree
Required Field(s) Of Study (BQ)
Preferred Field(s) of Study:
Management, Finance, Operations, Project Management
Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: US
1 year(s) of experience
Certification(s) Preferred
Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:
Demonstrates some level of abilities and/or a proven record of success as both an individual contributor and team member with focus on industry-leading knowledge, continuous execution, throughput and quality in the following areas
- Project management and PMO Domain knowledge
- Planning Management
- Evaluation and Ddocument project intake
- Track and update project plans and provide insight to project status and risks
- Prepare a business case leveraging assessment of desired outcomes and ROI
- Produce and analyze metrics such as KPIs and OKRs and raise insights to stakeholders
- Generate Delivery Roadmaps such as GANTT charts
- Execution & Financial Management
- Effectively track and manage a RAID log
- Operate under Change Management processes, including project scoping and design (i.e. setting up a project charter)
- Track budgets, assess progress against budget to actual and , identify variances and determine escalations
- Establish plans to increase delivery governance
- Conduct schedule analysis, demand management, and resource forecasting and determine recommended options to address project risks and issues related to scope and staffing
- Communication and Knowledge
- Document processes and create training materials
- Inform stakeholders through creation and dissemination of status reports
- Leverage experience in all phases of project delivery (development, execution, and transition)
- Knowledge of project governance and ability to track deliverable acceptance and feedback
- Continuous Improvement
- Track and implement process improvement processes
- UnderstandMonitor performance metrics and support achievement of service levels across engagements by assessing status and identifying areas for improvement
- Identify operational risks and support successful service transitions
- Able to deliver on time and to the quality standards expected from clients
