Associate Project Manager

Job Summary

The Assistant Project Manager is a key contributor to the Project Management Office, responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining best practices, methodologies, and tools across the organization's project portfolio. This role is highly analytical and process-focused. The ideal candidate brings a practitioner's mindset - someone who has delivered projects not just supported them - and can translate that experience into building stronger PMO standards and governance practices across the organization.

Skills and Experience Needed

• Project Management and Delivery
  • Own, drive, and execute select complex internal projects, cross-functional initiatives, and process-improvement programs from initial scoping and business case development through to execution, change management, and formal closure.
  • Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks and areas of improvement across assigned projects
• Look at how projects are being run, find inefficient steps, and fix them to help teams deliver work faster and with fewer errors.
• Governance and PMO Standards
  • Establish and execute a regular audit cadence for project health, ensuring compliance with PMO frameworks and documentation standards.
  • Govern the adoption and standardized configuration of PSA tool, ensuring a 'single source of truth' for project data.
  • Facilitate Stage-Gate reviews and ensure project stage compliance with governance frameworks.
  • Lead the formal collection and analysis of lessons learned post-project/program and integrate resulting recommendations into the PMO methodology and training materials.
• Facilitate the PM Community of Practice (CoP) meetings, enabling knowledge sharing, cross-functional collaboration, and the identification of new best practices from project teams.
• Stakeholder Management
  • Act as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, external vendors and cross-functional teams on PMO-related matters.
  • Synthesize complex data and risks into clear, concise, and executive-ready dashboards, status reports, and presentations for leadership.
  • Act as a change agent, leading communication strategies to ensure smooth adoption of new PMO processes, tools, and governance policies across delivery teams.
  • Manage governance cadences with external vendors, ensuring deliverables align with business requirements and organizational quality standards.

Job Specification

• A. Education Experience
  • Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Organizational Development, Project Management, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a Project Management Office (PMO), PMCoE, or a dedicated process improvement/operational excellence role.
  • Experience in developing and implementing standard project management methodologies and tools.
• Prior SaaS experience is a plus.
• B. Certifications (Good to have)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent (e.g., PRINCE2 Practitioner).
  • Certification in an Agile framework (e.g., Scrum Master, SAFe).
  • Certification in process improvement (e.g., Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt).
• C. Core Competencies
  • Project Management Expertise: Hands-on experience managing projects end-to-end using structured methodologies
  • Analytical Thinking: Ability to synthesize complex data into clear, executive ready recommendations.
  • Tool Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software and collaboration tools.
  • Communication Influence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels without direct authority.

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