Junior PMO Professional - temporary for 18 months Amman, Jordan
Cargill · Amman
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Junior PMO Professional will lead the strategic portfolio of projects and programs across the functions that will include projects and data fields standardization, intake and value case guidelines, development of prioritization criteria and methods based on the enterprise strategy. In this role, you will provide visibility into the business project portfolio, create report and integration with other business planning processes with key stakeholders. You will gather data for portfolio reporting, build data information dashboard, ensure data quality and consistency, support stakeholders in project management system and analyze data for ad hoc requests. Main Market responsibilities will be Middle East (Jordan) & Turkey, although the scope of the position includes regional market support within the entire Middle East, East Europe Turkey & Africa (MEETA).
Key Accountabilities
- Identify improvements and simplifications to project portfolio management processes, oversee development of and implement the processes and facilitate, train and the educate team on our portfolio processes.
- Integrate multiple complex technical applications and systems to research and analyze project data and other relevant data and information to be used for Portfolio management.
- Create new data sets and analysis to prepare reports and materials using vaguely defined procedures for use by stakeholders.
- Guide the utilization and execution of project processes, including creation and maintenance of process documentation, training content and job aids.
- Analyze and interpret complex data and information from project processes to develop and produce metrics including leading and lagging, quantitative and qualitative and process performance and process compliance metrics.
- Collaborate with other process stakeholders to deliver value from people, process and data and technology system improvements and track development progress and business readiness efforts and identify value opportunities through optimization initiatives.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Thoroughly support Strategic Marketing & Technology (SMT) with the complete Organizational Growth Drivers (OGD) process
- Responsible for Annual Operation Plan (AOP), Organizational Growth Drivers (OGD) reviews
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Experience in project management, project delivery process and portfolio management
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience
- Regional Travel 15 – 20 %
- Strong communication skills and cross collaboration. High level of English competency is critical
- Advanced Microsoft skills, strong in Excel & PowerPoint
- Analytical & Data driven
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree or other post-secondary degree
- Industry recognized certification in project portfolio management practices
- Knowledge of and experience with process improvement practices
- Experience in transformation, operational excellence or process improvement project management
- Experience using project management and analytical tools
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Attention to detail
- Comfortable in operating within ambiguity, having a solution mindset
- Power BI & MyPPM experience would be a benefit
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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