The role
Job description
Role & Responsibilities:
• Act as PMO lead/Secretariat for SteerCo, Delivery Action Team (DAT), and strategic
governance forums, ensuring structured agenda management, executive-ready decision logs,
action tracking, and follow-through on leadership commitments
• Own and govern the New Demand Pathway, working with business, technology, risk, and
compliance stakeholders to improve intake discipline, delivery efficiency, prioritization
quality, and portfolio throughput
• Provide embedded PMO and delivery management support across multiple workstreams,
enabling portfolio capacity, delivery discipline, proactive dependency management, and
consistent execution governance
• Drive continuous improvement and value creation by identifying delivery bottlenecks,
standardizing PMO routines, improving governance cadence, and strengthening outcomefocused execution
• Champion Agile portfolio management practices and provide training on portfolio
frameworks
• Serve as the primary interface between delivery teams and central PMO/APO services,
ensuring governance standards, reporting expectations, delivery controls, and escalation protocols are consistently applied
• Enable data governance and regulatory compliance through
alignment with risk and compliance teams
• Manage integration, dependencies, and cross-functional alignment across business,
technology, operations, risk, and compliance teams to ensure predictable delivery and timely
decision-making
• Facilitate backlog prioritization and portfolio governance, ensuring alignment with
strategic objectives, funding guardrails, delivery capacity, benefits realization, and senior
stakeholder expectations
• Support Agile program execution including quarterly planning and sprint alignment across
multiple squads
• Lead stakeholder communication, executive reporting, and governance updates,
including SteerCo packs, dashboards, status narratives, risks, decisions, and cross-geography
delivery updates
• Own RAID management, including proactive risk identification, mitigation planning,
dependency tracking, issue resolution, escalation management, and closure governance
• Support financial analysis and decision-making, including cost-benefit, cost of delay, and
prioritization trade-offs
• Enable cross-geography collaboration through structured planning and effective
Communication
Candidate Profile:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field; Master's degree
preferred.
• 8–12 years of progressive experience in Project Management, PMO, or Program Delivery roles,
with a strong track record of independently managing complex, cross-functional initiatives aligned
to strategic business priorities.
• Ability to translate complex delivery, technology, risk, and compliance topics into clear executive
narratives, impact assessments, decision points, and implementation roadmaps for varied
stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage competing priorities, build
consensus across functions, and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Comfortable making timely, data-informed decisions in ambiguous delivery environments,
balancing delivery timelines, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong problem solver with experience leading project teams, resolving delivery blockers,
facilitating trade-off discussions, and maintaining momentum across complex workstreams.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize
competing demands effectively.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to
influence leadership, collaborate across teams, and manage expectations across business and
technology groups.
• Strong executive presentation, facilitation, leadership, and governance management skills, with
experience preparing senior-level status updates and decision materials.
• Working knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery models, with practical experience
supporting quarterly planning, sprint alignment, backlog governance, and multi-squad
coordination.