The Emerald Group

The Program Management Lead will oversee and manage portfolio execution, ensuring the delivery of tangible business value including revenue growth, process optimization and realizable productivity.

• Location: London
• Category: Business Development
• Type: Permanent

Key Duties (Including but not limited to):

• Work closely with senior leadership to understand the strategy and align the ABS workstream initiatives accordingly. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the initiatives / sub-initiatives identified for execution drive value and align with the strategy.
• Ensure that these standards are uniformly adopted and practiced across the entire organization.
• Develop strong relationships with key customers and partners.
• Evaluate the road map for all major customers' long-term visions and help develop service offerings that appropriately match their business needs.
• Recognized and accredited professional project management training and certification (such as PMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP or equivalent) preferred but not required.
• Essential: Candidate must be able to travel to France / Europe for occasional meetings / workshops.
• Desirable: Candidate must be fluent/native in French.
• Candidate should have previous experience working in / for EMEA region.
• Deep experience in conducting integrated scoping and planning across multiple workstreams, regions and business units.
• Experience rolling out Business Capabilities, bringing new capabilities to market, and launching new services.
• Extensive understanding of Project and Program Management methodologies and structures and can demonstrate a pragmatic application of these appropriate to a given audience and/or situation.