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BE A PART OF A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE !At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business to deliver a smoke-free future.With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.
PMI is transforming towards Project Based Organization. We are establishing the Project Management Office to support implementation and embedding of the project based ways of working within the organization.
- Anticipate organization and business needs, set up PMO
strategy and services, to optimize commercial projectsplanning & prioritization, resource management andproject management capabilities.
- Lead project submission process, ensuring right project
selection and alignment to business strategy.
- Establish governance standards to monitor project
progress, identify risks and opportunities and report tosenior management, enabling further decision taking.-Manage interdependencies and coordination across cross-functional projects.
- Guide and coach project managers to ensure optimal
project delivery.
- Set standards, processes, equip organization with
methodologies and templates. Support organization onprocess mapping if needed.
- YOUR ‘DAY TO DAY’
- PMO Strategy
Anticipate organization & business needs, set up PMOstrategy and services, to optimize commercial projectsplanning & prioritization, their alignment to businessobjectives, resource management, project managementcapabilities and linking execution to strategy.
- Strategic Project Planning
Lead projects submission process, ensuring availability ofaccurate information such as project objective,deliverables, resources needed, timelines and expectedoutcome (KPI’s), enabling alignment to business strategyand project selection by Management team. Facilitateproject prioritization.
Establish governance standards to monitor projectprogress on deadlines, deliverables, resources, timelinesand outcome. Identify and address opportunities andrisks. Manage interdependencies and coordination acrosscross-functional projects ensuring that information onproject deliverables, risks and issues are effectivelycommunicated between stakeholders. Provide monthlyreviews to senior management with overall projectsoverview, main project progress updates, identifying riskand opportunities enabling further decision making.
Justify, manage and allocate resources for projects basedon business knowledge, input from project managers andgeneral understanding of project tasks; anticipate andmobilise cross functional resources when required(impacted commercial departments, Legal, CA, IS, Finance,3rd party suppliers)
- Project Management support
Coach cross functional project managers to ensureoptimal project delivery, by providing project managementmethodologies, setting standards, equipping managerswith processes and templates and encouraging their use.Ensure organization is trained on new methodologies inline with Business transformation.
Establish project closing process; ensure that themeasurement and reporting of project’s achievements(KPI’s) is done, challenges/learnings monitored, enablingoptimal decision making for future projects selection anddelivery.
- Requirement
- Minimum 10 years working experience as
project/program/portfolio management (PMO) expert orpractical experience as a project manager in a complex,multi-disciplinary environment
- Experienced in implementation of change and
improvement projects or ability to do so
- Excel in Projects management tool
- Excellent communicator, being able to influence without
hierarchical power, and agile in managing a large anddiverse range of stakeholders
- Maintains personal effectiveness and people focus under
pressure, high speed of change and uncertainty
- Ability to guide, coach and advise at all organizational
levels to effect sustainable change and improving theproject and process maturity level of the organization
- Good command in English and Mandarin