PMO Analyst

Title: PMO Analyst
Location: Cupertino, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: 6 months (possibility of extension)
Implementation Partner: Infosys
End Client: To be disclosed
JD:
• Setting the standards and tools via which BPR completes its work.
• Running the management system which the BPR teams utilize to stay aligned and communicate internally.
• Acting as a program management function for key cross functional initiatives within Sales.
• As a background activity, there is a change required to continue to mature and hone the tools, methods and techniques which we make available to the BPR teams.
• There are ongoing organizational development activities which need to be planned, scheduled and executed such as training programs, new joiner inductions, workshops, and meetings.


Key Qualifications:
• PMO support requires the person to be extremely versatile and open to learning new skills based on the need and scope
• Strong analytical skills with continuous process improvement mind set.
• High level of professionalism, energy, and sense of urgency to "make things happen."
• Ability to use data to tell a story, drive root cause analysis and extract actionable insight. (This will require telling story using various methods - Keynote, Tableau dashboarding, Excel)
Understanding project, program, and portfolio planning and delivery to the level that you can support setting standards, propose policy, and coach others.
Understanding Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and Iterative.
• Good communication skills - verbal, written and presentation.
• Excellent teamwork skills and ability to influence others and an ability to quickly establish trust, credibility, and rapport.


Education:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience


Additional Requirements:
• Self-motivated, driven individual who is comfortable working in a global, matrixed, fast-paced environment with high levels of complexity and ambiguity.
• Innovative mindset and ability to think outside of the box, challenge status-quo, and incorporate industry best practices.
• Quality thinking, process improvement mindset necessary


Responsibilities:
• Facilitate the Downtime process for the Sales Applications. This will require stakeholder management and "getting things done"
• Maintain the process repository and make enhancements as needed
• Roll out surveys to get feedback, analyse the data, follow through on action planning etc
• Enable Process improvement and efficiency across the portfolio.
• Provide visibility and transparency around relative value through metrics and reporting.
• The scope is not exhaustive, but versatility is key.
• A person with a great learning aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and ace them will be important to this role