Employment:
Full Time
Line of Service
Internal Firm Services
Industry/Sector
Technology
Specialism
IFS – Information Technology (IT)
Management Level
Manager
Job Description & Summary
– A career within Data and Analytics Technology services, will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics.
– We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology.
– We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.
Analytics Project Management
Certification(s) Preferred:
– Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
– Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader overseeing the delivery of technology solutions using agile methods and both onshore and offshore providers including:
– Working collaboratively in a dynamic, ambiguous environment with multiple competing priorities which requires self-motivation, discipline, organization, and a high attention to detail.
– Possessing working knowledge and experience with Agile methodologies.
– Collaborating with others to discover creative solutions to complex problems, which may require unique approaches, while maintaining standards and minimizing risk to the firm.
– Possessing written, oral and listening skills with the ability to understand and act upon leadership guidance in work product and deliverables.
– Having the ability to influence sponsors and stakeholders.
– Managing multiple complex, concurrent projects and associated deliverables.
Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in project management roles including the use of traditional or agile methodologies to deliver analytics solutions including the following areas:
– Utilizing Project Management tools such as ServiceNow, MS Project, G Suite collaboration tools.
– Driving technology solution delivery for large projects/programs through a complete agile development lifecycle (backlog prioritization, sprint planning, tracking burn-down/velocity, etc.).
– Managing vendor resources (onshore and offshore) including obligations established in Service Level Agreements and risk management/escalation.
Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a contributor / leader in the following areas:
– Participating in integrated planning across multiple technology pillars including development of high-level pillar strategy operational plans.
– Leading stakeholder management and driving the onboarding strategy of the deployment of Global Reporting and Analytics products across the PwC network.
– Leading demand management process while partnering with product, technology and business stakeholders to define product vision and roadmap.
– Addressing requests from PwC technology senior leadership for operational information across multiple pillars.
– Developing leadership messaging for communications.
– Preparing presentations to inform and influence leadership, stakeholders, committees etc.
– Managing issues across multiple pillars within the PwC technology organization.
– Responding in a timely manner to completion of administrative / organizational deliverables.
– Applying project management and agile knowledge to identify, escalate, and remove team impediments that jeopardize sprint goals.
– Influencing project team members to identify and address project issues, including leadership and interdependent teams, and to promote self-directed teams by enabling open, transparent and clear communications.
– Creating and maintaining sprint schedules based on information from the vendor and PwC task information, while incorporating updates and changes to the integrated project plan and preparing reports and presentations for executive levels.
– Collaboratively managing Technology Leader and CoS expectations on a regular basis.
– Applying knowledge of the Firm to the Project Management activities to comply with Firm policies and standards.
At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.
We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.
PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.
We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.
If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer.
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