Portfolio Manager GPAM

Contracting – Braine L’alleud

Our client is looking for a Portfolio Manager to join their team for a global project.

This job is a key role under the Portfolio & Project Management Organization within Global Engineering and Facilities. Its goal is to secure visibility on the Global Physical Asset Management’s (GPAM) portfolio including resources, timelines, costs, risks and compliance of our projects with Project Management guidance enabling informed decisions. GPAM is a global organization ting research, development, manufacturing, and commercial activities. This scope is mainly focused on Belgian, Swiss, UK, and US sites. It supports local asset owners in taking the right decisions while monitoring their risk level. The portfolio manager will facilitate a portfolio or six (6) clusters and a budget about twelve (12) million euros. Since the organization was founded in June 2022, a portfolio management approach is not fully implemented. This position reports to the Project Performance & Capacity Management Lead.

Your responsibilities

Project Methodology Control and escalation

• Ensure compliance with GPAM’s project management guidance

• Support the Project Excellence department to develop new project management methodologies withing GPAM

• Support to the standardization of project methodologies with global and local PMOs

• Financial control of projects

• Ensure Project landing are updated regularly

Portfolio Capacity Management and resource utilization

• User of global engineering capacity management system used to foresee GEF’s resource

requirements, bottlenecks, risks and support the implementation of appropriate actions to meet

objectives

• Ensure data quality and compliance to process & tools with internal and external stakeholders

• Supports resource allocation discussion with GPAM’s, Investment Strategy and Early Design and

Strategy team and PPMO team

Project & Departmental Metrics

• Further Develop, produce, and maintain the KPIs of GPAM in collaboration with all relevant teams

• Contribute to harmonization within GEF’s different departments

Project Risks/Issues/ Key learnings Management

• Consolidate, analyze, and report key risks/issues for GPAM’s portfolio

• Consolidate and follow the different projects mitigation

Project Scope & Deliverable Management

• Ensure appropriate tracking and Control of change of scope, deliverables

• Escalate to relevant team/PMO deviation

Support continuous improvements of project processes/tools/governance within PPMO

• Develop tools, and processes to make available best practice and key learnings, house of knowledge development

PMO services

• Ensure PMO support/ support gating process / Appropriation request in areas not covered by a PMO (ex: Automation, HS&E)

• PPMO primary point of contact for GPAM

• At least a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

• Certification: PMP or PfMP (PMI)or Prince2 [Mandatory], Green Belt (Lean)

• At least five (5) years of experience in portfolio management and its implementation with a certification

• Having a first experience in leading portfolio change in a company