PMO – Portfolio Management, Budgets and Capacity Planning (M/F)

Project overview

Job Description

Within the IT department of a large service group, you will join a rapidly growing department responsible for central and collaborative solutions. The initial foundations for activity management have recently been laid: your mission is to take over this existing structure, make it reliable, and develop it, in order to provide management with a clear and reliable view of projects, budgets, and team allocation.

Your missions:

Budget and Financial Monitoring

Capacity and Resource Management

Governance and Reporting

Support for the Project Manager Community

Deliverables

Candidate Profile

Experience and Expertise

Soft Skills

Work Environment

🚀 The Argain Consulting adventure means:

Daily support and guidance from a trio (business manager, business expert, HR representative),

A personalized onboarding process (individual then collective),

Certifying training (at least 1 training every two years),

Numerous events: at least 2 events per month (afterwork, cooking party, sports class, karaoke),

Opportunities for internal career progression (ambassador role, key account leader, consultant manager),

• Consolidate and maintain the project budget tracking dashboard
• Ensure tracking of charge consumption from entries in the portfolio management tool
• Analyze discrepancies and issue alerts in case of deviations
• Centralize the tracking of project incidents and their financial impacts
• Analyze and validate weekly timesheets to have an exhaustive view of activity
• Integrate tracking of external projects for the department that mobilize its resources
• Challenge the Run/Projects activity ratio and propose optimization strategies
• Produce and optimize consolidated reports (weekly and monthly) for management
• Prepare and lead some of the steering committees and decision-making bodies
• Contribute to the annual strategic and budgetary planning exercise
• Ensure adherence to project management processes, with diplomacy and pedagogy
• Ensure the holding of project and steering committees, as well as weekly project planning
• Lead the weekly operational committee and support quarterly planning and commitment tracking
• Budget and capacity planning tracking dashboards, optimized and maintained (using Google Sheets)
• Monthly activity reports: time analysis, ratio tracking, alerts
• Up-to-date mapping of projects involving the department
• Documentation of consolidated processes and new procedures
• Significant experience in IT PMO, at an expert level
• Expert mastery of project management methodologies, including agile mode
• Expert practice of a project portfolio management tool, ideally CA Clarity PPM
• Expert mastery of budget tracking systems
• Expertise in Google Workspace and spreadsheet applications, with a real ability to design high-performing and user-friendly dashboards
• Good practice of capacity planning (confirmed level)
• Expert mastery of Jira and confirmed practice of Confluence
• Strong technical aptitude for dashboard design
• Global vision: ability to give meaning to management data, both strategic and operational
• Proactive in continuous improvement of processes, tools, and organization
• Diplomacy and pedagogy to unite teams and ensure process compliance

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 2 ans
• Location: Niort, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, FR
• Languages: French

Source notes

Argain Consulting Innovation is a strong brand specializing in project and organization performance and data valorization within the Alan Allman Associates ecosystem, located in Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Niort.

We make it a point of honor to maintain contact with each of our talents and do everything possible to develop and foster a strong sense of belonging.

Joining us means becoming part of a human-sized team where people are at the center, a firm where autonomy, trust, and sharing are strong principles.

An attractive and uncapped variable compensation (referral bonus, account opening bonus, business development bonus),

A package (holiday bonus, profit-sharing bonus, CSE benefits, RTT, 60% coverage of meal vouchers).

🚀 The Recruitment Process:

Our process includes 3 interviews:

🤝 A discovery interview with an HR representative, to get to know each other and ensure our mutual interest. (45-60 minutes)

💼 A projection interview with a business manager, to discuss the types of assignments you could undertake. (30-45 minutes)

💡 A technical interview with a business expert, to challenge your knowledge, skills, and soft skills. (60 minutes)

For equal skills, this position is open to people with disabilities.