Contract opportunity | Dublin, hybrid
Overview
Oversees future-focused strategic initiatives and current state programs and activities that enable the business to operate.
As a Project Portfolio Manager for Strategic Initiatives, you will be responsible for coordinating project and program resources engaged with all initiatives within the selected functional area portfolio.
This position is responsible for senior executive engagement and reporting on the state and performance of initiatives within the selected functional area portfolio. A successful portfolio manager will influence program and project prioritization, facilitating trade-off discussions with senior leadership to maximize available resources.
This role assumes overarching responsibility for supporting organizational leadership in overseeing and managing programs and projects across the entire life cycle of Strategic Initiatives to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.
Key Duties / Responsibilities
- Routinely reviews portfolio to ensure it aligns with strategic objectives.
- Ensures EMEA projects are appropriately resourced to meet objectives.
- Facilitates prioritization and trade-off discussions with the business.
- Keeps BAU (Business As Usual) projects out of the portfolio.
- Identifies synergies and opportunities within/across the portfolio and recommends changes to the business.
- Provides a holistic overview of portfolio progress, escalating risks and issues for resolution.
- Monitors performance of each project and project manager, offering support and coaching as needed.
- Provides credible challenge to ensure independent oversight and transparency in project progress, risks, issues, and roadblocks.
Expected Behaviors
- Partners with PMO Director to drive strategic planning and prioritization, ensuring the portfolio reflects strategic goals and measurable outcomes.
- Manages PMO's strategic financial investments to optimize value and impact.
- Enables visibility into portfolio status, health, and risks across all organizational levels.
- Facilitates cross-functional governance processes to align and engage PMO and business stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of project management processes, workflows, and terminology (PMI framework preferred).
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, and perform under pressure in a dynamic, complex environment.
- Skilled at distilling large volumes of information into actionable insights for nimble decision-making.
- Proven ability to influence outcomes, resolve conflicts, and navigate ambiguity.
- Experience managing large-scale, complex project initiatives with high attention to detail and competing priorities.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical, and creative thinking skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills; ability to build strong partnerships across teams.
- Skilled in verbal, written, and presentation communications, with experience presenting to senior leadership.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office; knowledge of Clarizen is a plus.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in large-scale project and program management.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- PMP certification (including PgMP or PMI-RMP) preferred but not required.