Sobre esta vaga de Acceleration Center - Strategy - Project Management - Senior Associate na PwC
Industry/Sector
Not ApplicableSpecialism
Managed ServicesManagement Level
Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery.In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.
Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
- Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
- Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
- Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
- Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
A career in our Managed Services team will give you an opportunity to collaborate with many teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of business and technology. Our Strategy Consulting Managed Services practice will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations balance long term strategies and short-term imperatives to optimize their investments and strategic activity required to achieve the organization's business objectives. We help enhance organizations project and program performance by identifying alternative project approaches.
Technical Requirements
• 6 years or more managing portfolios, programs, and projects
• Knowledge of the insurance business*
• Extensive experience in Information Technology
• Extensive experience applying Best Practices in Project Management, both traditional and/or agile approaches
• Possession of one of the following certifications: PgMP / PMP and/or Scrum Master, at least one
• Budget, cost, and profitability management skills
• Skills in preparing and presenting executive reports
• Skills in managing and presenting service indicators (SLA’s)
Soft Skills:
• Strategic thinking
• Executive/Director-level approach
• Proactive and innovative
• High organizational level
• Oriented toward generating value for the organization
• Negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Leadership and team development
• Effective communication
• Problem-solving ability
Key Responsibilities
• Support in planning new projects based on project management methodologies, policies, and procedures.
• Monitor compliance with commitments and deliverables by those responsible for executing the project, ensuring that the necessary information is available to feed the indicators of each project; the project manager is responsible for reporting the status of committed milestones.
• Identify and report risks associated with project execution, as well as follow up on their mitigation.
• Support in generating the project's communication plan together with the participants responsible for its execution.
• Monitor and control the project budgets.
• Create and maintain project management documentation.
• Organize, document, and lead meetings to follow up on ongoing projects.
• Prepare the documentation requested by the Project Owner for presentation to the required Committees for follow-up and control.
• Monitor the execution of project activities by IT service providers.
• Ensure compliance with project indicators in alignment with IT portfolios.
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%Job Posting End Date
