Senior PMO / Laision IT

Job Description

Your role is to act as the Office of the CIO (OCIO) Business Partner that supports a dedicated part of the IT portfolio. You are in the informal leader of a dedicated team of support specialists that together you support the IT Department Heads, Project and Portfolio managers as well as release train engineers and scrum masters on topics like financials and progress reporting, planning and quality assurance. The PMO Business Partner acts a liaison for the “IT Department Heads” for the entire Change as well as the Run portfolio.

You challenge your stakeholders on the effective and consistent use of the ASML processes & methodologies. By providing clear analysis and insight on portfolio financials, progress, quality, issues and risks you support senior management in effective decision making. You give direction to the team and steer them to pro-actively initiate consistent improvements, initiatives and tasks. You help actively to share knowledge within IT community and the OCIO team, by organizing and/or contributing to the content of knowledge sharing events. • End2End ownership of OCIO deliverables. • Facilitate alignment between members from different OCIO capabilities (e.g.IT Delivery support, IT Assurance, Agile Coaches). • Create sub-sector improvement plan to set focus and direction. • Prepare team backlog ensuring it’s properly prioritized. • Balance priorities at team level. • Enable and empower IT Operations Sub Sector stakeholders’ decision making through standardized practices and information. • Align with IT Department Heads to understand their needs. • Support Head of Portfolio in the preparation for the Sector Portfolio meetings and monthly operational alignment sessions with Business Senior Stakeholders.

Education and Experience

• Education: relevant Bachelor or Master’s degree; 
• 5-10 Years of working experience in project/portfolio management and/or SAFe in a large, international organization, working as (agile) project management officer, or a similar position;
• Experience in data analysis, providing advice and preparing scenarios for senior leaders;
• Experience with implementation of changes and improvement initiatives, or ability to do so;
• Sound knowledge of, and working experience in project & portfolio management methodologies like PMBOK/Prince2 and MoP;
• Sound knowledge of, and working experience in SAFe, Agile and Scrum;
• Preferably, you have working experience with Microsoft Project Online, Jira (Align) and Spotfire.

Personal Skills

• Proven stakeholder management capabilities; skills to support, advise and challenge stakeholders to effect sustainable change by influencing without power • Communicate clearly, concisely and directly to team lead, peers and customers, listen actively, show empathy to others, strive to achieve a shared understanding of your own tasks, issues and goals and speak up.
• Excellent presentation skills and a convincing personality
• Result driven and flexible when needed (customer focused)
• People oriented (strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills), team player with the ability to work independently
• Commitment: take ownership, focus on quality and improvements, and stick to agreements made
• Understand and consistently question the status quo and analyze existing processes and data within your own area of responsibility, based on knowledge and experience
• Demonstrate a learning mindset: actively seek feedback; learn and develop based on experience and feedback
• Pays attention to detail and produces work that meets high quality standards
• Pro-active team player with the ability to work independently
• No-nonsense and hands-on mentality
• Fluent in English and preferably in Dutch

Context of the position

This position is part of the Delivery Support organization within the Office of the CIO. The PMO Business Partner reports to the Manager Delivery Support and has internal interfaces with colleagues of the Office of the CIO, with Epic Owners, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, (Chief) Product Owners, Solution Team Managers, Portfolio Managers, Competence Center Directors, other IT and Business stakeholders, Finance, Purchasing, suppliers and consultants.