Senior Manager, Global PMO

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UCT is looking for a talented Senior Manager, Global PMO to join us in Singapore!

This position will manage portfolios of 2 or more projects within Global Project Management Office and report directly to the Director of Project Management Office. This position will strategize with management, plan, organize and lead execution of specific project and portfolios of project activities as assigned by the Global Project Management Office. Overall Program Management includes working with individual project Sponsors to define project objectives and success criteria to support initial project resourcing, funding for approvals, prioritization, and portfolio alignment. Once approved and resourced, the Program Manager will be responsible for detailed project planning, execution including scheduling periodic governance reviews and at key project milestones. Annual goals and objectives will set the targets for success of projects to quality, delivery, and cost attributes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Requirements:

• Organizes business opportunities into cohesive groupings of projects. Manages the grouping as a portfolio of interconnected activities to achieve business results.
• Strategize with Executive leaders to drive a continuous improvement model and execute accordingly.
• Responsible for ensuring all the project requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution.
• Build team(s) to address the project goals and objectives for multiple and/or enterprise level projects.
• Collaborate with customer (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance.
• Align the program team to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the enterprise project.
• Review project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators allocated to projects.
• Provide guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goal and corporate initiatives.
• Communicate project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives.
• Serve as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders, and project sponsor(s).
• Devise creative solutions to critical customer and user needs.
• Manage development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) or metrics.
• Responsible for recognizing project's Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manage the work within scope, quality, time, and cost constraints.
• Obtain and summarize current project information and milestone status versus project performance baseline.
• Drive project/program tasks to completion in accordance with the project schedule.
• Coordinate the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks.
• Management of Resource capacity and time tracking allocated to enterprise level project.
• Financial Management and analysis of costs for enterprise level projects and programs including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER’s) travel, training, resources allocation and other project related costs.
• Responsible for forecasting project budget and HR needs for current and future site needs.
• Accountable for overall project success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management.
• Balance the cost, schedule, and time frames against the enterprise level project requirements.
• Report project status, issues and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results to stakeholders.
• Provide leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement.
• Recognize potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solutions.
• Identify best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e. modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value-added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems).
• Provide key stakeholders with regular project performance status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions (if required).
• Participate in the exchange of ideas and information within the department and with other facilities to ensure best practices are shared throughout the company.
• Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management.
• Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet, and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Project development

• Manages multiple projects - either independent or integrated program elements; can develop multiple projects within a program.
  
  

Project Planning

• Completes all project planning elements per project life cycle processes. Can use Project.
• Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) effectively with no Supervision to address all project planning requirements.
  
  

Project Management

• Provide technical leadership of multiple projects and develops strategy for project execution across a portfolio. Manage and monitor project tasks, performance details, project information and any changes that may adversely affect project success criteria.
  
  

Project Communications

• Develop and deliver multiple project and program communications across all stakeholders with limited to no supervision.
  
  

Generate Project Schedule

• Generates complex (multifunctional) schedules. Reviews and approve schedules.
  
  

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; serves as coach / mentor for PM's as managed within a portfolio of projects or program. Drives PMO development through learnings. Strategizes, defines and drives integrated program requirements.
  
  

Problem Solving

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
  
  

Troubleshooting Skills

• Troubleshoot a variety of problems of moderate/high difficulty to address business improvement opportunities.
  
  

Meeting Facilitation

• Leads meetings both internal and external customers, captures minutes and prepares slide deck. Develops program and multi-project communication plans.
  
  

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains difficult or sensitive information. Interacts with suppliers. Interacts with customers. Host program reviews on business, technical and project lifecycle elements.
  
  

Educational/Certification Requirement:

• PMP certification required.
• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited University.
  
  

Experience Requirement:

Work Experience:

• 5+ years' experience as a Project Manager.
• Experience in SAP is preferred.
  
  

Physical Demands and Working Conditions: This section is required for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA)

Criteria:

Work Environment:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Works in an office environment.
  
  

Physical Demands:

• Ability to kneel, reach, walk, push, pull and grasp.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs.
• Ability to carry weight from 25 pounds.
• Ability to move arms, hands and fingers.
• Ability to sit for sustained periods of time.
• Required to wear personal protective equipment.
• Prolonged sitting with some standing and bending intermittently during work hours.
• Subject to interruptions.
  
  

Environmental Exposure:

• Required to wear personal protective equipment where applicable.
• Subject to frequent interruptions.
• Subject to hazards including electrical current, moving mechanical parts, exposure to chemicals and debris.
• Required to wear personal protective equipment where applicable.
• May involve exposure to moderate noise levels from printers, faxes, computers etc.
  
  

Overnight Travel:

Work may require out of town travel (10%)

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