Portfolio & Project Management Manager San Francisco, CA

Portfolio & Project Management Manager

• Company

  PwC

• Location

  San Francisco, CA

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  Feb 16, 2013

• eFC Ref no

  1169001

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Healthcare is a transforming industry due to legislative and regulatory demands, technology challenges, and societal trends. Our growing Health Industries Advisory practice provides management, technology and risk consulting services to help healthcare institutions around the world to anticipate and address their most complex business challenges. Our practitionars are supported by a dedicated health research unit, which is managed by a physician partner and provides our clients with cutting-edge intelligence, perspective, and analysis on issues transforming the health industry. Our professionals have deep health industry expertise and include physicians, nurses, system specialists, health policy analysts, actuaries, financial advisors, and data analysts. The Healthcare Advisory practice is aligned across: Healthcare Provider, Healthcare Payers, and Pharmaceutical and Life Science.

Our PPM Consultants assist clients with capital planning and investment control. This high performing team optimizes project and program performance, while consistently alligning projects with corporate strategy.
Position/Program Requirements
Knowledge Preferred:

Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge as an industry leader in Enterprise Transformation efforts, through directing, managing, implementing and executing business and technology related solutions and project teams that involve the following set of offerings:
- Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory (assessments, design, business case development, outsourcing assessments and readiness etc)
- IT Strategy (planning, performance management, IT effectiveness, benchmarking, operating model etc)
- Systems Implementation (ERP, SAP, Implementation strategy and planning)
- IT Infrastructure (Data Center Transformation, BCM, IT asset management
- Systems Integration (Architecture, Application development, systems and app rationalization)

Proven intimate knowledge and management experience in the area of Program/Project Management, devising strategy and managing Program Effectiveness teams, which includes demonstrating the following:
- Assessing client projects for areas of risk, identify gaps and recommend areas for improvement
-Leading large-scale PMOs, applying appropriate project management techniques to oversee and/or support a complex workstream or a number of less complex workstreams.
-Facilitating any number and/or level of meetings and workshops with a client and/or PwC team members

Obtained PMI Certification and/or advanced graduate-level degree (i.e. Masters, et al) are preferred.

Skills Preferred:

Proven extensive abilities with designing and managing a project and workstream implementation plans related to process improvement, which includes the following: utilizing thorough functional knowledge and industry standard methodologies and tools, as well as creative problem-solving abilities to devise solutions, related to training, change management, and program management

Proven extensive abilities to execute strategy and deliverables, as well as write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently, to and/or for, all levels of industry audience, clients and internal staff and management, which includes the following: course materials (i.e. instructor and participant guides) and presentation slides, practice marketing materials, change management plans and/or project plans, workshops for various internal and external clients and audience levels, practice methodologies and tools, policies and procedures, whitepapers, other standard business communications.

Demonstrated extensive abilities with, and a proven track record of, contributing to sales; tracking business leads; and supporting business development opportunities through the identification of new engagement opportunities and assisting with the writing, presenting, closing, researching, and delivering of proposals and engagements.

Minimum Years of Experience Necessary:

6 years of consulting experience with project management, business process redesign, organizational development, and process improvement.

Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required:

Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree required.

Additional Requirements

Demonstrated ability and willingness to travel up to 100% on client projects, meetings and/or other relevant business matters.
Additional Information
Prior Big 4 experience a plus. Masters degree a plus.