Director, Project Management Office (PMO)

SilkRoad Technology is the world's leader in strategic onboarding for global workforce readiness and transformation. We help organizations prepare their people for change by designing intentional, personalized journeys to increase retention and maximize agility throughout their careers. SilkRoad combines our leading strategic onboarding capabilities with world-class consulting services to deliver highly scalable, personalized experiences that engage employees and drive long-term business performance such as productivity, profitability, growth and agility.

Our Global Client Services Team is seeking an experienced Director, Project Management Office (PMO) to be responsible for the development and operation of the Project Management Office and providing strategic and operational leadership across SilkRoad Technology's portfolio of client projects. This role will implement and maintain a comprehensive PMO process to provide structure, guidelines and tools to develop, evaluate, prioritize, sequence and manage projects through the entire project life cycle. This position will be responsible for management of the PMO staff, budgets and outcomes. 

Your contributions to SilkRoad will include:

• Developing and maintaining a strategic project planning environment that ensures accountability, consistency, and high-quality client service.
• Defining SilkRoad's project management methodology and establishes processes for scoping, pricing, delivering, and tracking client projects.
• Ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget and scope, and consistent with established standards.
• Providing analysis, status reports, and metrics to clients and senior management.
• Serving as a liaison between project teams and other functional areas of the organization and clients.
• Identifying project management technology to implement across the Global Client Services organization; optimizes existing tools for efficiency.
• Establishing project management training and tools for the Global Client Services organization.
• Leading a team of Program Consultants responsible for a broad range of client projects; assigns Program Consultants to projects and distributes the project workload.
• Mentoring, motivating and leading team members. Ensuring team members take action and accountability for their assigned projects and workload.

• Superior project management and cross-function team leadership skills.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
• Experience partnering and working directly with senior leaders.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships both within the organization and with clients.
• Ability to deliver on time/budget, large scale, complex software implementations to enterprise clients.
• Demonstrated ability to apply project management standards as defined by Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Capable of establishing project management practices and tools that have a significant impact on the organization.
• Proficient with computer software and MS Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Teams.

• Bachelor's degree in business, project management, human resources, or other relevant field of study is required; MBA or other relevant advanced degree is desirable.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Project Management in a client service environment required; experience in a SaaS environment is desirable.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience managing teams in a project management environment.
• Experience running a PMO organization for a minimum of 3 years is required with proven history of delivering on-time/budget, large-scale, complex software implementations for clients.
• Spanish, French or other foreign language proficiency is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of project management tools such as Microsoft Project and Visio, Kanban boards, time tracking tools and collaboration tools.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required.