Project Specialist / Senior Project Specialist | PMO Consulting (Middle East Projects)

Job Description & Summary

We are a rapidly expanding team of professionals who are passionate about project management. We assist our clients with strategy execution by establishing Portfolio, Programme and Project Management standards, sharing PM expertise, and ensuring successful portfolio delivery. We are constantly expanding our consulting offerings in the space of PPM/PMO Services. To achieve our key objectives, we work closely with our Partners across the global PwC Network and other PwC teams (e.g. Financial Crime Unit, Public Sector, Cyber, IT, FS). Our international and diverse team is one of the largest ones of its kind in the world.

We are looking for:

Project Specialist / Senior Project Specialist (Middle East Projects)

Your future role:

• Providing end-to-end PMO and consulting services to clients from Poland, Germany, Middle East and other parts of the world independently,
• Delivering regular status reports, risk, issue, and decision logs,
• Facilitating meetings, including decision making meetings,
• Contribution to quality standards improvement and preparing, analyzing reports & proposing recommendations to next steps,
• Managing and supervising work of others by leading a small PMO Team on projects/programmes or managing simple projects,
• Establishing shared document repository, tools and templates to manage: schedule, cost, risk, change, communication and other project constraints,
• Supporting decision making for the assigned projects/programmes or making project decisions and assisting project lead in following best practices.
• Travel with prolonged on-site presence for ME region engagements.

Apply if you have:

• Have the ability to travel frequently to Middle East region for project purpose
• University degree,
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in German and English (mandatory),
• 2-4 years of experience within PMO or 1-3 year of experience in Project Management and project management knowledge, especially related to planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, preferably covered by experience,
• Advanced communication skills meaning ability to communicate with different stakeholders, communicating clearly and in structured way (to the point) and ability to explain business complexity or challenge status quo and propose new solutions,
• Readiness to take decisions based on business understanding,
• Skills needed to provide constructive feedback to peers, team members and to broader stakeholders,
• Good knowledge of MS Office in particular MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint and/or G Suite applications.

Nice to have:

• Project Management and/or other related certificate/s,
• Experience in using PM tools (e.g. Jira, monday) ,
• Conflict solving skills, ability to support others' professional development and experience in people and team management.

By joining us you gain:

• Work flexibility - hybrid working model, flexible start of the day, workation, sabbatical leave,
• Development and upskilling - our full support during onboarding process, mentoring from experienced colleagues, training sessions, workshops, certification co/financed by PwC (e.g. CFE certification) and conversations with native speaker,
• Wide medical and wellbeing program - medical care package (incl. dental care, freedom of treatment, physiotherapy), coaching, mindfulness, psychological support, education through dedicated webinars and workshops, financial and legal counseling, 
• Possibility to create your individual benefits package (a.o. lunch pass, insurance packages, concierge, veterinary package for a pet, massages) and access to a cafeteria - vouchers, discounts on IT equipment and car purchase,
• 3 paid hours for volunteering per month,  
• Additional paid Birthday Day off,
• And when you start enjoying PwC as much as we do, you may recommend your friend to work with us.

Recruitment process:

• CV verification,
• HC screening call,
• language test call if needed,
• case study,
• final call with one of our managers/senior managers/directors.

With any queries please contact us: [email protected].

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