Managed Services PMO Analyst SAP Exp - Sr. Associate

Specialty/Competency: Managed Services

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Up to 40%

A career in our Project Management practice, within Project Portfolio Management services, will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations balance long term strategies and short term imperatives to optimise their investments and strategic activity required to achieve the organisation's business objectives. We help enhance organisations project and programme performance by identifying alternative project approaches, consistently aligning projects with corporate strategy, setting the tone and pace of programmes from the outset, responding quickly and effectively to crisis situations, and extracting value from agile programme delivery.

As part of our team, you'll help our clients set the tone, pace, and point projects in the right direction from the outset. You'll help companies manage their projects by providing guidance, methodology, and tools needed to successfully complete a project lifecycle.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.

• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.

• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.

• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.

• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.

• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.

• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.

• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.

• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Minimum Degree Required

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum Year(s) of Experience

3 year(s)

Required Knowledge/Skills

Demonstrates a thorough level of abilities with, and/or a proven record of success as both an individual contributor and team member, identifying and addressing client needs by:

• Demonstrating a proven record of success in project management

• Possessing thorough level of abilities in PMO Domain knowledge; and,

• Using straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.

Preferred Qualifications

Certification(s) Preferred

CAPM or PMP and Agile Certification

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

Demonstrates a thorough level of abilities with, and/or a proven record of success as both an individual contributor and team member, identifying and addressing client needs:

• Participating in client discussions and meetings;

• Communicating a broad range of Firm services; and,

• Managing engagements, including preparing concise, accurate documents and maintaining project economics while maintaining flexibility for unanticipated issues. Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader by:

• Leading a team to consistently deliver high-quality results and establish project governance;

• Managing documentation of project intake;

• Overseeing tracking and maintenance of project plans and developing on a business case;

• Establishing, analyzing, and providing insights from metrics such as KPIs and OKRs;

• Managing development of Delivery Roadmaps such as GANTT charts;

• Leading a team to track and manage a RAID log;

• Operating and managing under Change Management processes, including project scoping and design (i. e. establishing proper change management guardrails);

• Tracking budgets and identify and report variances;

• Leading a team towards establishing plans to increase delivery governance;

• Establishing demand management and resource forecasting processes;

• Utilizing project schedules to drive execution and plan;

• Analyzing documentation of processes and leading creation of training materials;

• Keeping stakeholders informed and engaged via presentations of the team-generated status reports;

• Defining and delivering the support model with key stakeholders across delivery organizations;

• Leveraging experience in all phases of project delivery (development, execution, and transition);

• Demonstrating proven knowledge of project governance and ability to track deliverable acceptance and feedback;

• Implementing process improvements;

• Tracking an established set of performance metrics and service levels across engagements;

• Identifying and managing operational risks and execute successful service transitions; and,

• Leading a time to deliver on time and to the quality standards expected from clients.

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The salary range for this position is: $58,000 - $161,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bon.