Position: PMO Manager
Company: Forte Group
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

This person will be responsible mostly for leading a team of product owners with a strong focus on hiring, training, mentoring, and performance management.
To be successful as a PMO Manager, you should demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills. Ultimately, a top-notch PMO Manager should be well organized and able to work under pressure.

The PMO Manager will be responsible for the operational activities of the PMO:
- PO resource management;
- monitoring and control Projects Portfolio;
- knowledge sharing activities;
- project methodology development.

The PMO Manager should be experienced as a Product Owner in order to be able to take over responsibility for key projects.
The PMO Manager must have a proven track record of success, leading a product owners/managers’ team, projects, or a software development group, including product managers with a strong sense of personal leadership, mentorship, and collaboration.

Responsibilities:
- Resource management. Staff projects with product owners in a way when they fit projects the best
- Onboard new product owners to the company
- Mentor and develop product owners
- Accurately document the project's creation, development, and execution as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification
- Provide assistance with any issues that may occur on the project
- Lead development of education and training programs for product owners
- Collaborate with Engineering departments to ensure consistency and its alignment with PMO
- Ensure that all projects adhere to the recommended or chosen project management methodology and address deviations accordingly
- Contribute to knowledge sharing (e.g., conducting internal training and writing knowledge base articles, etc.)
- Report on a regular basis to the Delivery Director ensuring that product management team is aligned as projects’ scope, timeline, resources or priorities change in project portfolio and pipeline
- Build and maintain working relationships with senior-level business managers, cross-functional teams, and peers on projects
- Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
- Perform team-building within project management to facilitate collaboration and cooperation. Facilitate cross-functional team-building to cultivate collaboration and cooperation between departments
- Track and report on product managers/owners utilization identifying any workload imbalances
- Performing semi-annual performance review and promotion evaluation of product owners
- Develop and track career plans and personal development plans for product owners.

Requirements:
• 5 years of project management experience in software development projects. Experience in managing B2B projects is a plus
• At least 2 years of experience in managing project managers or software development groups that included project managers
• Experience managing projects using SCRUM methodology. Practical usage of various formal software development methodologies is a plus
• Practical experience in a Product Ownership role
• Hands-on with applying project management areas in accordance with PMBOK
• Adept at using project management tools
• Good understanding of basics of Business Analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Excellent negotiation skill
• Ability to work effectively as a leader of a team
• Flexibility, self-motivation