Executive Director Portfolio Management

Parexel has an exciting opportunity for an Executive Director, Portfolio Management to join our global Operational Excellence & Delivery team supporting the OED Enterprise Program Management Office. The primary role of the Executive Director of Portfolio Management is to support the OED Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) to govern and report progress on the portfolio of internal investments, including transformational and corporate initiatives. This role will lead a combined PMO construct and unified governance model. The EDPM proactively collaborates with Parexel internal project teams and others involved in the definition and delivery of the initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Business case development oversight

• Project approval governance (inclusive of technology lifecycle gates);

• Portfolio prioritization

• Resource planning including operational impact assessment; ensuring that projects are progressing according to plan/commitments

• Portfolio KPI management; scorecard management; supporting financial management and reconciliation

• Production of key progress reports

• Tracking and assimilation of savings/benefit realization and KPI data

• Preparation and presentation of materials for internal meetings

• Management of communication between internal stakeholders

Experience required

• Excellent program/project management and control skills.

• Advanced problem-solving skills and ability to summarize complex situations into key points.

• Strong influencing skills and ability to engage and lead teams.

• Highly motivated, self-starting, with strong results orientation.

• Strong verbal & written communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills (mainly internally and often at higher levels).

• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office software packages such as Teams, Excel, MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint.

• Demonstrated strong organizational skills and ability to take structured approach to varied work assignments.

• Strong team leader who is dedicated to making cross-functional, culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams successful.

• Strong meeting facilitation and presentation skills.

• Aptitude to interface with all levels of staff, including top management.

• Proven relevant experience with managing large, complex portfolio programs in healthcare, consultancy, or contract research organization.

• Familiarity with project management methodology ideally in combination with a background in a functional business area such as human resources, finance, accounting, marketing / sales or clinical studies.

• Experience running an IT PMO would be beneficial

• Advanced proficiency in corporate finance

• Line management experience is required

• Experience with organizational change management.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a science-related field, management or business administration, with an advanced technical degree or MBA desirable.