What you’ll do
Role title: VP - PMO Lead
Function: Intelligent Ops
Band: F14
Sub-function: Transformation and Programme
Reports to: Head of Business Operations
Location: Pune
Role purpose:
- The Programme Management Office lead has a key role in delivering the Transitions into VOIS and the wider strategic change projects. Specifically the candidate will:
- Govern and hold accountable the progress against VOIS programmes. Offering support/resources to drive milestones, deliverables and activities
- Manage the pipeline of new projects from idea to approval and associated governance and tracking
- Support projects to operate to a standard end to end delivery process (the Control Tower Framework), ensuring requirements and exit criteria for each stage are met
- Own the overall strategic project delivery roadmap, and to work closely with project teams to ensure projects are delivered to time, cost and quality metrics
- Lead a team of Project Managers/PMO leads who would support the delivery of the largest strategic programmes.
Candidate:
- The candidate should have a deep understanding of programme management methodologies and tools, as well as experience in supplier relationship management and budget management. Additionally, the candidate should have 8+ years of experience in running transformation projects and/or large PMO’s/Transformation offices, ideally with telecoms, technology organisations.
- The candidate should be able to lead and motivate a team, manage stakeholders, and have a can-do attitude. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential for this role. The candidate should have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams across multiple geographies.
Key Competencies and decision ownership:
- Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Leadership and Influencing Skills: Ability to lead and inspire teams to deliver across the diverse stakeholder and team landscape
- Project Management Skills: Proficiency in project management methodologies and practices. This includes planning, organizing, executing, and controlling projects to achieve desired outcomes within scope, budget, and schedule constraints
- Adaptability and Resilience: The ability to adapt to change, remain flexible in the face of uncertainty, and persevere through challenges
- Data Analysis and Performance Measurement: Good analytical competency to be able to track progress, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), and assess the effectiveness of projects.
- Continuous Learning and Improvement: A commitment to ongoing learning, professional development in the project management processes and tools space. Including the use of AI
Who you are Key performance indicators:
- Project Delivery Performance: Monitor the performance of individual projects within the portfolio in terms of scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
- Resource Utilization: Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of resource utilization within the change portfolio, including human resources, budget, and other assets.
- Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Track the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives within the change portfolio, such as lessons learned sessions, process enhancements, and knowledge sharing activities
- Portfolio Alignment with Strategic Objectives: Evaluate the extent to which the change portfolio aligns with the organization's strategic goals and priorities.
Core responsibilities, knowledge, and experience:
Core responsibilities include:
- Providing project management leadership and direction to the VOIS transitions leads and wider projects
- Managing key project management tools and processes covering:
- Integrated plan
- Risks management
- Dependency tracking
- Deliverable tracking
- Programme reporting
- Identification and resolution of risks and issues across projects
- Review and QA outputs and documents produced by Project Teams
- Attend and provide input to governance forums
- Own escalation of project delays to Vodafone/VSOL to leadership and key stakeholders
- Provide Supplier with adequate working space, equipment and facilities.
- Promptly notify Supplier (3rd party or internal) of any issues, concerns or disputes with respect to the Services
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Project Management Certification: Ideally possession of a recognized project management certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP) SAFe Portfolio lead
- Ideally Degree Level candidate in a numerical subject
Not a perfect fit? Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
What's in it for you We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.
Who we are You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.
As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.
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