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Acceleration Center - SPMS - PMO - Operations Lead

Mexico City, Mexico (On-site)

Acceleration Center - SPMS - PMO - Operations Lead

1 Day ago • 6 Years + • Product Management

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Job Description

The Acceleration Center - SPMS - PMO - Operations Lead at PwC focuses on optimizing project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. Responsibilities include project selection, prioritization, resource allocation, and overseeing project delivery within budget and timeline. This managerial role requires strong organizational and communication skills, leading and motivating teams, coaching team members, and managing performance to meet client expectations. The role involves analyzing system components, ensuring successful project planning and execution, partnering with leadership for quality control, developing team members' skills, addressing conflicts, and upholding professional standards. Experience with large global clients, specifically within a Big 4 or like consulting organization is preferred.

Must have:

Project planning & execution
Team leadership & delivery
Project governance & risk management
Stakeholder engagement
Change management
Financial & Value Management
Statement of Work (SOW) knowledge
Process standardization
Project budgeting
Vendor management

Good to have:

SAP experience
Big 4 consulting experience

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Managed Services

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

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.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
Effectively mentor others.
Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
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.

Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree
Minimum Years of Experience: 6 year(s)
Minimum English Proficiency: C1 Level
Preferred Fields of Study: Computer and Information Science, Management Information Systems, Project Management, Business Administration, Engineering
Preferred Experience: Prior Big 4 or like consulting experience; SAP.
Certification(s) Required: CSM, SAFe Scrum Master or Project Management Professional (PMP), ACP.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates extensive knowledge and/or a proven record of success in planning and execution management, for a Big 4 or like consulting organization, specifically for large global clients, including the following areas:

Planning and Execution Management

Leading a team to consistently deliver high-quality results

Establishing project governance

Helping build engagement teams

Utilizing an accurate view of project schedules to drive execution and plan effectively

Identifying the anticipated impact to project delivery through an effective risk management process

Establishing proper change management guardrails

Utilizing the knowledge of Statement of Work (SOW) and Change Order constructs to establish work performed is in scope and at the agreed upon level

Defining and delivering the end to endend-to-end support model with all key stakeholders across multiple delivery organizations

Financial & Value Management

Establishing standardized processes for the continuous generation and intake of project and product ideas

Implementing an approach to capturing and accurately forecasting project actuals and budgets

Developing a uniform project estimation process to facilitate effective prioritization and informed decision-making

Asset Management

Possessing a clear end-to-end understanding of the procurement process

Optimizing resource allocation and utilization to ensure efficient delivery

Establishing effective processes for vendor management, as needed, and ensuring effective procurement and contract management

Providing fully documented services which are updated and maintained throughout the life of the service and are aligned to project management industry leading practices

Establishing that appropriate lifecycle resourcing, training, tooling, support and documentation is delivered with a formal project sign-off from all key stakeholders

Communication & Knowledge

Driving stakeholder engagement and expectations optimized for project outcomes

Preparing and delivering regular status reports to stakeholders, providing updates on delivery

Establishing measurement and performance metrics such as KPIs and OKRs

Creating rapidly repeatable delivery and reporting standards

Ensuring active sponsorship and business readiness to effectively drive projects forward

Developing multi-level relationships with client and team members to establish project delivery goals are met as planned

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Analytical Thinking, Business Process Improvement, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Costing, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity, IT Project Lifecycle, Learning Agility, Optimism, Process Mapping, Process Standardization, Professional Courage, Program Management, Project Budgeting, Project Coordination, Project Delivery {+ 24 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

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