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.Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
- Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
- Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
- Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
- Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
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) *:
Certification(s) Preferred
Minimum of 3 year(s) of experienceCAPM or PMP and Agile Certification
Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:
Demonstrates a thorough 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
- Oversee and evaluate project intake
- Manage project plans, assess project status and risk and troubleshoot with stakeholders
- Prepare a business case leveraging assessment of desired outcomes and ROI
- Review and analyze metrics such as KPIs and OKRs, and advise project leadership on metrics
- Lead development of Delivery Roadmaps such as GANTT charts
- Execution & Financial Management
- Effectively track and manage a RAID log and identify action items to resolve areas of risk
- Understand and execute Change Management processes, including project scoping and design (i.e. setting up a project charter)
- Manage budgets and identify variances, assess progress against budget to actual and , identify variances and lead solutions to resolve risks
- Lead development of plans to increase delivery governance and monitor 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
- Manage project status and engage with key stakeholders to provide project updates and resolve project risks and issues
- Leverage experience in all phases of project delivery (development, execution, and transition) and support junior resources in execution of project delivery
- Knowledge of project governance and ability to track deliverable acceptance and feedback
- Continuous Improvement
- Track, implement and manage process improvement
- Establish an effective set of performance metrics and service levels across engagements; assess status and identify areas for improvement
- Identify and manage operational risks and execute successful service transitions
- Able to deliver on time and to the quality standards expected from clients
These are exactly the same as the Associate role. This should be revised so there's differentiation across each management level within this job family.
Hi Jason, I thought I had responded here but these are all updated. If you didn't have a look before, wanted to make sure you saw the edits
