As a Senior Portfolio and Project Manager, you'll coach and mentor project managers, oversee project execution, facilitate communication, and manage risks. You will conduct portfolio reviews and foster a culture of accountability while ensuring adherence to project management standards and methodologies.
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Job Description:
Your scope of work / key responsibilities:
As Senior Portfolio and Project Manager
- Coach and mentor project managers, from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to project management methodologies and standards
- Establish and lead technology value realization reviews - key technology Initiatives receive regular oversight throughout execution.
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration on project status, issues, risks etc. with relevant stakeholders on a timely basis
- Review project plans, schedules, and budgets, and monitor project progress against these parameters.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to review project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
- Help the project managers to Identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, and develop mitigation strategies.
- Provide leadership and guidance to project manager fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Conduct portfolio reviews and lessons learned sessions to identify areas for improvement and best practices.
- Build the culture of process standardization through actions, usage of PPMO tools
- Develop strong partnerships with the Delivery Teams to gain strong understanding of objectives, sustain open dialogue.
- Influence a wide range of stakeholders to remove impediments and maximize team output
- Support hiring process when needed which involves working with different stakeholders to pass on the demand and JD, get the profiles reviewed, maintaining candidate records, panel & slot scheduling etc.
- Builds a high performing team managing intrapersonal conflicts.
- Ensure the cross functional team are working collaboratively and cohesively.
We require someone with / key experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as business administration, engineering, or project management. A PMP certification is preferred.
- Minimum 12+ years of relevant experience
- Proven experience as a PMO leader and in managing complex projects, preferably in a similar industry or sector.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects.
- Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with project management software tools such as Planview and JIRA
- Knowledge of relevant regulations, standards, and quality requirements applicable to the projects.
- Ability to travel as needed to project sites or client locations.
- Strong organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills to work effectively in a changing environment balancing operations and project delivery.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, including ability to effectively address any issues in collaboration with others as appropriate; ability to proactively identify and prevent potential problems; ability to develop problem solving skills among direct reports and other team members as appropriate.
- Well versed in navigating complex organizational structures and capability to develop productive working relationships with internal stakeholders across the region and globally
- Exposure to modern technologies and methodologies like Agile, Mobile, APIs, DevOps etc.
Certifications: PMP Preferred, SM / PSM/SAFe is a plus
Primary Location: SLGS P
Schedule: Full-time
Job Category:
Project Management - Systems
Posting End Date:
30/01/2025
Top Skills
JIRA
Planview
Sun Life Financial, Inc. Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office
150 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 1J9
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