Strategic Initiatives Project Portfolio Lead

1 week ago

Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland beBee Careers Full time

Senior Project Portfolio Manager Role

This role is responsible for overseeing and managing programs and projects across the entire life cycle of strategic initiatives to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.

The successful candidate will influence program and project prioritization, facilitating trade-off discussions with senior leadership to maximize available resources.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Routinely reviews the portfolio to ensure it aligns with strategic objectives.
  • Ensures that EMEA projects are appropriately resourced to meet objectives.
  • Facilitates prioritization and trade-off discussions with the business.
  • Keeps BAU 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.

Requirements:

  • 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.
  • Skill 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.

Qualifications:

  • 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.

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the organization by leading strategic initiatives and driving business results through effective project portfolio management.

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