Acceleration Center - Managed Services - Project Manager - Senior Associate

at  PwC

JOB DESCRIPTION & SUMMARY

A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology.
Our Strategic Program Management Office Sourcing practice will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations balance long term strategies and short term imperatives to optimise their investments and strategic activity required to achieve the organisation’s business objectives. We help enhance organisations project and program performance by identifying alternative project approaches, consistently aligning projects with corporate strategy, setting the tone and pace of programmes from the outset, responding quickly and effectively to crisis situations and extracting value from agile program delivery. Our team’s roles focus on project portfolio management for both people and client management. Additionally our team processes services such as portfolio, program, and project management which require a diverse range of skill sets needed and growth opportunities for new and experienced team members.

JOB SUMMARY:

A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies, and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Planning and Execution Specialist, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy through execution and beyond. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths, and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current business trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy, and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments, and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree
Minimum Years of Experience: 3 year(s)
Minimum English Proficiency: C1 Level

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree Preferred: Bachelor Degree
• Preferred Fields of Study: Business (Finance, Accounting, MIS, Economics, etc.), Engineering , Computer Science
• Preferred Experience: 3 Years of Experience in Project Management at a Big 4 or like consulting firm
• Certification(s) Preferred: PMP, CSM, CSPO, SA, SPC, POPM, or SSM

PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

Demonstrates proven thorough knowledge & understanding of clients and provides delivery effectiveness in the following five primary areas:

• Enterprise Program Management - working in the assessment of client needs and capabilities
• Providing tools , methodologies , and guidance to establish or improve client delivery
• Supporting delivery planning, scoping, dependency/risk management, resources deployment, quality control and reporting
• Strategy, Governance, and Management - supporting the team in providing advice and oversight to clients in evaluation of delivery alternatives, and assisting in structuring a plan & mobilizing resources to deliver outcomes
• Supporting delivery execution through evaluation of delivery roadmaps and providing recommendations for effectiveness

OPTIONAL SKILLS

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• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths, and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current business trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy, and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments, and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct