[Hiring] Practice Lead - Project Management and PMO @Talent

Role Description

Own and lead Avec's Project Management and PMO practice, ensuring effective delivery across a large and diverse ICT consulting portfolio while improving practice consistency, quality, commercial performance and delivery governance. This is a hands-on senior operator role. The Practice Lead will manage and develop Avec's Project Managers, own the PM/PMO methodology, support sales and solution shaping, govern the active portfolio and personally lead billable delivery work where required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in ICT consulting, project delivery, program delivery or PMO leadership, with prior consulting or professional services experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading teams of at least 10 people, ideally across a project management, PMO, delivery or consulting practice environment.
• Strong practical experience managing large mixed portfolios across agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery models.
• Experience with fixed-price, outcomes-based or at-risk delivery, including estimating, pricing, project finance, budget control and commercial review.
• Strong financial acumen, including practice P&L, utilisation, forecasting, timesheet discipline, revenue recognition and project margin management.
• Credibility interacting with senior client stakeholders, including executives, CIOs, Program Directors and client sponsors.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum Master, MSP, SAFe or equivalent are highly regarded but not mandatory.

Requirements

• Lead, manage, coach and develop Avec's Project Managers, including line management, performance reviews, utilisation, capability uplift, mentoring and assignment input.
• Run daily portfolio checks, project health checks, utilisation reviews, PM community forums and monthly practice reporting across the project portfolio.
• Improve consistency in PPM usage, RAID management, project controls, reporting, governance rhythms, delivery artefacts and portfolio data quality.
• Own the Project Management and PMO methodology for Avec and drive practical implementation across agile, waterfall and hybrid engagements.
• Recommend improvements to tools, templates, governance, reporting and delivery controls, then implement agreed changes with Director of Delivery approval.
• Personally lead project management, program management, PMO establishment, advisory work, troubled project recovery or governance uplift assignments as required.
• Identify delivery risk early, intervene at the right level of detail and support recovery of at-risk or troubled projects.
• Chair or support client steering committees where required and interact confidently with executives, CIOs, Program Directors and senior client sponsors.
• Own practice P&L contribution, utilisation, forecasting, project budgets, pricing support, timesheet discipline, revenue recognition and margin awareness.
• Support the Director of Delivery, account leads and sales teams with solution shaping, estimating, pricing, proposal content, commercial review and client presentations.
• Lead the practical embedding of AI into project delivery ways of working, including reporting, RAID, estimation, assurance, portfolio analysis and productivity use cases.
• Lead hiring and interviewing for new Project Managers and contribute to the ongoing development of Avec's PM capability model.

Benefits

• 'AVEC Anywhere' - work from anywhere in the world for 2 weeks/year!
• ‘AVEC Time Out’ – 6x extra leave days a year for resting, learning and growing
• Award-winning workplace culture
• Industry leading parental leave policy
• Extremely attractive and competitive bonus scheme
• Annual 'TALENTFEST' conferences
• Equity program (everyone gets a piece of the pie!)
• Global mobility
• Opportunities for development and career progression