We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.
**Working Arrangement**
Hybrid
Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You've come to the right place. We're looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you.
**The Opportunity**
The customer is the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering Head of Project Management Office with the resources to solve critical problems for the future of our business, which is why we need you.
**Responsibilities**:
**Portfolio Management **- To successfully manage and support the portfolio of work ensuring strategic alignment.
- Ensure that the enterprise portfolio remains aligned to strategy and contribute to strategic planning - working to shape a balanced, sustainable and achievable portfolio.
- Maintain the integrity of the portfolio to ensure project business cases are valid and that sanctioned projects are initiated, prioritized, funded and resourced for success; and providing clear advice to the Executive Committee regarding implications of specific re-prioritization on the delivery profile and do-ability of the portfolio.
- Monitor and control project progress at a business unit level and provide regular reports on portfolio health including time, cost, scope and benefits.
- Define and manage high quality regular executive reporting to enable clear understanding of portfolio status and enable informed decisions.
- Provide Executive Committee with information needed to assess and decide which proposals have the highest potential value, impact and strategic alignment; define project priorities, implementation opportunities, challenges and communicate project risks and opportunities.
**PMO/Project Practices **- To establish and support the portfolio and project delivery lifecycle (PDLC), governance, processes and reporting.
- Actively work with business owners and sponsors to mobilize the roadmap as per plan; and maintain reporting on the status of project mobilization against plan.
- Review business cases to ensure the inputs are of a consistent and high quality and are aligned with enterprise roadmap and regional strategy.
- Manage the risk, issue and change resolution process, and work with other leaders to take corrective action as needed.
- Ensure mechanisms for benefits realization are prepared and accountable business sponsors are enabled to manage and deliver against plans through subsequent business operation
**Portfolio Leadership & People Management**:
- To provide PMO leadership and to manage the performance and development of all members of the PMO team (direct and indirect reports).
- Cultivate a community of committed project professionals that will share and eventually drive development of best practices and continuous improvement.
- Ensure quality of deliverables (projects/programs on time, within scope and on budget) by enforcing controls and coaching/mentoring PMs
- Manage resource utilization across projects.
- Build good relationships at senior levels with technology, solutions, distribution, and vendor groups.
- Contribute in delivering company's Objective and Key Results as well as other AdHoc requests in a timely manner.
**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies/Education**:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field required.
- A min. of 10 years of project management experience preferred.
- Expert-level knowledge of project and change management, methodologies, techniques, processes
- Good budget, cost and profitability management skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (i.e Project, Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Good communication skills in presentation and negotiate with different stakeholders (in English).
- Ability to work effectively in a team and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to influence without authority.
- Flexible, adaptable and resourceful when managing changing timelines and multiple deliverables.
- Basic understanding of the life insurance industry including key financial metrics (APE & NBV concept) is preferred.
**Our commitment to you**
- Our mission; to be a part of making Decisions Easier and Lives Better
- A leadership team dedicated to your growth and success
- A bold ambition and set of goals to be a leader in driving transformation in our industr