PMO Smart Cities

Job description / Role

about the role

CORE PURPOSE:

To partner with business stakeholders to lead projects from initiation through requirements, solutioning, estimations, planning and end to end successful delivery into production.

LOCATION: Riyadh

REPORTING TO: Customer Program Director

ROLE:
- Leading program management teams
- Internet of Things (IoT) / Smart Cities/Services
- Software or network engineering
- Telecommunications infrastructure or operations
- Lead a team of different expertise

Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement full functioning, PMO for the smart city project, including:
- Consistent methods and tools for project initiation, team structure, financial management, risk management, development processes, systems integration processes, project/program reviews, escalation processes, testing, business case development and cross-functional team leadership.
- Drive a continuous improvement culture/mindset with respect to project delivery and leadership demonstrated through the utilization of useful project performance metrics and defined performance improvement plans.
- Partner with leadership teams to ensure appropriate planning, execution, visibility, tracking, and leadership to enhance project success rates.
- Develop and implement project performance metrics to provide a data-centric view of PMO performance and to validate improvement on an ongoing basis
- Perform extensive resource planning/allocation activities in conjunction with ensuring appropriate project financial management for planning project portfolio.
- Communicate and drive the adoption and alignment of standards, policies and procedures across the project.
- Responsible for accumulating and disseminating PMO best practices. Drive the use of best practices and apply lessons learned to improve select performance outcomes.
- Lead departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering the smart blueprint.
- Drive strategic management of identified programs, to ensure that the programs are aligned to the customer needs, and enterprise business goals.
- Participate in strategic planning and implementation of major engineering, technology & innovation strategies and initiatives as determined by the Smart City PMO, Technology Council, and the client stakeholders.

about you

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, Experience
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, advanced degree strongly preferred
- 5+ years of direct PMO leadership experience in a multi-site global business
- 5+ years of experience as a working project manager in ICT/Telco/Smart City or other complex infrastructure environment
- Knows what a good PMO office looks like with a track record of continuous improvement in a new product development environment
- PMI certification or similar
- Solid leadership presence and ability to lead a global multi-site PMO team
- Superior project management skills, including the ability to execute and prioritize a number of tasks simultaneously and experience managing cross functional teams.
- Understanding of, and the ability to implement project portfolio management techniques to continuously improve
- Understanding of the factors influencing project cycle time, and the proven ability to implement practices that result in reductions in overall project time to completion.

department
International Zone

Orange Business manages and integrates the complexity of international communications, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that drive their business. Our extensive experience and knowledge in global communication solutions, together with our understanding of multinational business and local support in 166 countries and territories, ensure that our customers receive a consistent, global solution wherever they do business.

About the Company

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 75,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 287 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 242 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.