Global Head of Portfolio Management Office

Job Overview

Davies US is looking for an experienced Global Head of PMO to develop and lead the Global Portfolio Management Office, including the development of a Global PMO strategy aligning to overall goals of delivering value and enhancing the maturity of the function from its current state. Reporting to the Chief Transformation Officer, you will be responsible for overseeing and driving the project management function across the organization on a global scale. Reporting directly to the Chief Transformation Officer, the successful candidate will be primarily responsible for providing strategic challenge, overview and scrutiny across multiple Portfolios as referenced above.

To be successful in this role, you need to display a comfort level working with key people at all levels within an organization, exceptional capability to multi-task and prioritize with excellent organization and documentation skills in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and a high-level attention to detail and problem-solving skills. You must have 10 years plus experience in major change projects, program management, and strategic planning, also Prince2, APMG Change Management or Managing Successful Programs (MSP) certification, completion or currently undertaking MoP and/or P30 certification(s) and lastly demonstrable commercial awareness and financial acumen. Additionally, you will need to have superb communication skills, verbal and written, conducted in a timely manner and exhibit discretion with sensitive and confidential information. This role is a full-time, home-based position.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Responsible for developing and leading the Global Portfolio Management Office, including the development of a Global PMO strategy aligning to overall goals of delivering value and enhancing the maturity of the function from its current state.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement a global project management strategy aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
• Governance and Compliance: Establish project management governance frameworks, policies, and standards to ensure compliance and consistency across all projects and portfolios. This includes ownership of our ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) tooling and associated tools, techniques, and processes.
• Resource Management: Oversee resource allocation, capacity planning, and talent development within the PMO to support project delivery excellence.
• Performance Management: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure and evaluate project performance, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Risk and Issue Management: Anticipate and mitigate project risks and issues proactively, ensuring mechanisms are in place for timely escalation and resolution to minimize impact on project timelines and deliverables. This includes providing risk-based audit outputs such as health checks, as agreed with the leadership team.
• Change Management: Drive change management initiatives to facilitate organizational adoption of new processes, tools, and methodologies related to project management.
• Reporting and Communication: Embed mechanism for the preparation of regular project updates, reports, and insights to executive leadership and other stakeholders on project status, milestones, and outcomes. This also includes working closely with project teams and Group/Divisional finance functions on deploying mechanisms for great financial management, reporting and monitoring.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with key stakeholders, including executive leadership, business units, and external partners, to understand project requirements, gain buy-in, and ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
• Leadership and Team Management: Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to the PMO team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. This also includes ongoing recruitment, training and development of the overall PMO team to retain and build expertise; ensuring the wider PMO team members have the processes and knowledge to support general day to day queries from across the business.
• Continuous Improvement: Champion a culture of continuous improvement within the PMO, fostering innovation, learning, and best practice sharing to enhance project delivery effectiveness and efficiency.
• Exhibit company values of We are Dynamic, We are Innovative, We are Connected, and We Succeed Together
• Perform other duties as assigned

Experience and Qualifications

Required

• 10 years plus experience in major change projects, program management, and strategic planning
• Prince2, APMG Change Management or Managing Successful Programs (MSP) certification

• Demonstrable commercial awareness and financial acumen

• Completion or currently undertaking MoP and/or P30 certification(s)

Preferred

• Clear thinking, with the ability to easily dissect complex information

• Confident and proven PMO leadership skills, ideally in a scaling/large business
• Strong people-management skills, an ability to get the best out of colleagues and support as/when needed
• Influenceable communicator, confident in managing up and challenging executive level leaders

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proactive, independent, and takes initiative with consistent follow through
• Superb communication skills, verbal and written, conducted in a timely manner
• Superior time management skills with capability of working with and meeting deadlines

• Exceptional capability to multi-task and prioritize with excellent organization and documentation skills in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment

• Excellent team player with interpersonal skills
• High level attention to detail and problem-solving skills

• Capable of working collaboratively and independently with minimal supervision

• Exhibit discretion with sensitive and confidential information
• Display a comfort level working with key people at all levels within an organization

Essential Requirements

• Must have US work rights
• Must speak English
• 10 years plus experience in major change projects, program management, and strategic planning
• Prince2, APMG Change Management or Managing Successful Programs (MSP) certification
• Demonstrable commercial awareness and financial acumen
• Completion or currently undertaking MoP and/or P30 certification(s)

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the individual for this job and is subject to change with or without notice.

Diversity and Inclusion

Davies is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof).

Rewards and Recognition

We embrace innovation and run an annual competition available for all colleagues to submit their ideas. The top finalists travel to the current year’s competition site where they pitch their ideas to our investors. The winner receives funding to bring their idea to life and the runners up receive a reward for their involvement. Some of our teammates have moved across into brand new positions to further develop their ideas/projects!

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Paid Time Off, Sick Leave, and Paid Holidays
• Life insurance, short term, and long-term disability plans
• Amazing Executive and Senior leadership as well as fabulous teammates

Position Type, Work Environment and Physical Demands

This is a home-based, full time, salaried, exempt position that predominantly operates remotely from a professional home-based office environment routinely using standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, photocopiers, and scanners and requires prolonged periods of sitting at a desk while working on a computer. While performing the duties of this job, the individual will be required to regularly hear and talk. This is a largely sedentary role requiring the ability to sit at a desk, reach outward, use a phone, have use of fingers to operate office equipment such as a keyboard, mouse, phone, printer, copier, and to reach above the head, bend, or stand, as necessary.