PMO Manager

Key Purpose of the RoleEstablish and lead a center of excellence for program management Office based on best-practice methodologies and metrics for program management office (PMO).Develop and maintain program management policies and methodologies framework to be adopted across SDME projects and programs.Responsible for providing and maintaining program dashboards for accuracy and timely reporting to SDME leadership for all programs.Assisting with the support and delivery of significant Business Transformation / Business Change Projects Program and Project Portfolios from concept to completion.Provide effective and efficient support services to SDME programs to deliver on time on cost and on configuration and quality including a central point of consolidation for program shared information and documentation available among the PM functions.Process and Quality Assurance - manages the continuous improvement of PMO processes and procedures (i.e. updating and maintenance of the handbook); ensures adherence to PMO processes; identifies and monitors PMO success metrics.Financial Management - administers and reports all program finances; serves as a liaison to internal financial management which supplies controls and interprets corporate financial policy.Provides program level KPIs on monthly basis to all program managers and management to monitor and audit the financial performance and impact of each project and assesses the financial status and progress.Collaborates with the finance department and various functional managers to ensure project budgets are properly estimated and controlled; provide overall financial recommendations and develop controls and measurements to monitor progress.Responsible for monitoring project performance and trends including variance reporting.Responsible for keeping program managers informed of impacts to project budgets and forecasts.Manage customer sales orders COMSheets and contract administration for SDME programs.Oversee track and report on SDME program portfolio to support SDME leadership's decision making.Summary of Essential FunctionsDevelops and maintain the strategic direction of the PMO unit including its strategic objectives in line with the program departments and SDMEs overall strategy.Oversees project initialization planning and execution across all programs in accordance with PMO scope and strategic objectives.Coach and mentor new and existing Project coordinator Project Managers on project delivery methodology.Supervising and leading the program and project staff to oversee the impacts and interdependencies between programs and working to ensure initiatives meet the goals and objectives of the executive leadership team.Monitors progress and prepares periodic reports on overall performance and progress of SDME program portfolio and reports to management.Ensures the timely effective and efficient provision of program management supporting services to SDME programs for scheduling, scoping, budgeting, risk identification and validation, reporting, communication and coordination, trend and variance analyses.Effective and efficient customer sales order management and contract administration.Contractual program execution coordination and customer interface in the program production phase.Responsible for reporting revenue program gross margin for all programs by analyzing actual vs. planned for revenue, direct labor hours including overtime, BOM logistics cost OPEX N RC and CAPEX.Supports all program managers in financial forecasting and responsible for reviewing and/or resolving discrepancies or inconsistencies that could affect the accuracy of forecasting.Maintain a proper and user friendly filing and document control system for recording and tracking of all documents for the project team and department.Conduct in-depth internal reviews of organizational PMO maturity and establish road maps that drive the company toward high‑level PMO success.Ensures the timely availability and adequate skill level of project coordinators assigned to the integrated project teams or the sustainment program lead in the production phase.Measures the compliance and adherence to PMO processes and comes up with improvement strategies and actionable plans.Present recommendations to the PD in relation to staffing allocation options in accordance with the resource management process.Administers the risk management process across all programs, monitors risks across the portfolio and ensures response plans are in place at program and corporate level to mitigate program and portfolio risks.Oversees program documentation management and the up-to-date maintains repository of key project information.Ensures the collection of international standards best practices etc. and sharing with the program managers PMO team and supporting functions.Provides advisory input to SDME leadership in relation to program and portfolio management.Ensures the development of corporate program management standards and methodo