Portfolio Management Office Leader

Hanson Building Materials Company is seeking an organized Portfolio Management Office Leader. This position is located in Dallas, TX.


You are required to organize requests for IT projects throughout Hanson worldwide. You will be empowered to evaluate project briefs and identify the areas that either require additional definition or lack proper business unit support. You will be challenged by having to manage without direct authority and establish a culture of excellence. This will be complicated by the vast geographic distribution of projects and the need to provide consistency for the initiation and approval process for new IT projects.


The ideal candidate will have two years of successful project management experience and five years working in indirect reporting relationships. The expectation is that you will deliver superior technology projects by providing technology project leadership, organization and guidance to the company and to internal clients.


This position reports to the Hanson Information Technology Director of Global Business Solutions.


Hanson is one of the world's leading heavy building materials companies with over 27,000 employees. It is the largest producer of aggregates – crushed rock, sand and gravel, and one of the largest producers of clay bricks in the world. Its other principal products include ready - mixed concrete, asphalt, pipes, pavers, roof tiles and other concrete products. Its operations are in North America, the UK, Australia, Asia and continental Europe.


POSITION SUMMARY

You will organize and deliver superior technology projects by providing technology project leadership, organization and guidance.


OUR EXPECTATIONS - YOUR RESULTS


Deliver superior and value-added projects by -


Providing oversight on all project requests so that needs are addressed more efficiently.
Working with key business process owners to pre-negotiate acceptable project needs, scope, requirements and sponsorship prior to the capital request
Developing metrics, measuring project performance and reporting the progress to key Hanson stakeholders.
Maintaining a comprehensive, documented understanding of all proposed projects


Ensure project compliance by -


Ensuring that all project briefs are being developed using Hanson project management methodology and all key aspects are sufficiently detailed
Contacting each business analyst and appropriate business unit staff weekly on the development of project briefs
Understanding the status of each project brief and tracking its progress electronically


Increase project management discipline by -


Providing informal and ad-hoc information and sessions
Providing project management training to new employees and providing refresher courses using traditional and electronic media
Communicating changes to the methodology.
Assessing the quality for work performed by staff and devising methods for improvement through training.
















MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

This position requires:


Relevant degreed experience
Two years of project management experience
Five years experience indirectly managing staff of at least six full-time positions, including internal and customer staff
Two years experience developing project requests, requests for proposals (RFP), requests for quotes (RFQ), etc.
Direct enterprise resource planning (ERP) experience in a large publicly traded corporation
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and present ideas and programs




DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS


Bachelor of Science Degree (four-five year) in engineering from accredited university
Masters Degree from accredited university
Project Management Institute (PMI) certification
Department leader experience
Two years experience working with director, vice president or chief executive level staff, developing future IT plans
Two years JD Edwards or SAP experience




Supervisory Responsibilities


This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.
Matrix authority is through dotted-line reporting structure to five business analysts (two – United States, two – United Kingdom, one – Australia) and various business unit staff engaged in developing project briefs.




Scope


Up to 25 project major project briefs
Up to 400 minor project briefs (to track and correct as needed)
Up to five field-based business analysts (indirect reports)
Up to 25 field-based business unit staff, working on project briefs




TRAVEL

Up to 50% global travel


RELOCATION

Hanson will relocate the right candidate.


BENEFITS

We know that our employees are critical to our overall success. We are dedicated to investing in their future to maintain long-term relationships for lasting commitments. One of the ways we do this is to offer a comprehensive package of compensation and benefits programs which are regularly reviewed to maintain them at competitive levels.


Hanson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to workplace diversity. M/F/D/V.
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