Practice Lead Project Management and PMO

Job Purpose

Own and lead Avecs Project Management and PMO practice ensuring effective delivery across a large and diverse ICT consulting portfolio while improving practice consistency quality commercial performance and delivery governance.

This is a hands-on senior operator role. The Practice Lead will manage and develop Avecs Project Managers own the PM/PMO methodology support sales and solution shaping govern the active portfolio and personally lead billable delivery work where required.

Role context

• Portfolio scale: Avec currently manages around 150 active projects across agile waterfall and hybrid delivery models ranging from short multi-week engagements to multi-million-dollar multi-year programs.
• Practice ownership: The role takes over the Project Management and PMO practice responsibilities previously held by the Director of Delivery enabling broader delivery leadership and business growth.
• Adjacent practice influence: The role will influence cross-practice delivery across Business Analysis Testing Enterprise Applications and Transformation Data and AI Cyber and other delivery capabilities where project outcomes require coordinated delivery.
• Role split: The expected split is approximately 50% billable delivery 40% practice leadership and governance and 10% sales and business development support.

Key responsibilities

• Practice leadership: Lead manage coach and develop Avecs Project Managers including line management performance reviews utilisation capability uplift mentoring and assignment input.
• Portfolio governance: Run daily portfolio checks project health checks utilisation reviews PM community forums and monthly practice reporting across the project portfolio.
• Delivery consistency: Improve consistency in PPM usage RAID management project controls reporting governance rhythms delivery artefacts and portfolio data quality.
• Methodology ownership: Own the Project Management and PMO methodology for Avec and drive practical implementation across agile waterfall and hybrid engagements.
• Practice improvement: Recommend improvements to tools templates governance reporting and delivery controls then implement agreed changes with Director of Delivery approval.
• Billable delivery: Personally lead project management program management PMO establishment advisory work troubled project recovery or governance uplift assignments as required.
• Troubled project intervention: Identify delivery risk early intervene at the right level of detail and support recovery of at-risk or troubled projects.
• Client engagement: Chair or support client steering committees where required and interact confidently with executives CIOs Program Directors and senior client sponsors.
• Commercial management: Own practice P&L contribution utilisation forecasting project budgets pricing support timesheet discipline revenue recognition and margin awareness.
• Sales support: Support the Director of Delivery account leads and sales teams with solution shaping estimating pricing proposal content commercial review and client presentations.
• AI-enabled delivery: Lead the practical embedding of AI into project delivery ways of working including reporting RAID estimation assurance portfolio analysis and productivity use cases.
• Hiring and capability: Lead hiring and interviewing for new Project Managers and contribute to the ongoing development of Avecs PM capability model.

Key deliverables

• Portfolio governance cadence: Daily portfolio checks project health checks utilisation review PM community of practice and monthly practice reporting.
• Practice reporting: Clear reporting across portfolio program project resource commercial and delivery quality lenses.
• Delivery improvement roadmap: A prioritised set of improvements covering PPM consistency RAID discipline reporting quality project controls and practical AI adoption.
• Practice financial view: Accurate utilisation forecast project budget revenue recognition margin and P&L contribution inputs.
• Reusable practice assets: Improved templates playbooks governance artefacts slide decks and delivery tools that support repeatable high-quality delivery.
• Client-facing material: Clear proposal inputs executive presentations steering committee packs and delivery artefacts suitable for senior client stakeholders.

Qualifications :

• Consulting experience: 10 years experience in ICT consulting project delivery program delivery or PMO leadership with prior consulting or professional services experience strongly preferred.
• People leadership: Experience leading teams of at least 10 people ideally across a project management PMO delivery or consulting practice environment.
• Portfolio delivery: Strong practical experience managing large mixed portfolios across agile waterfall and hybrid delivery models.
• Commercial delivery: Experience with fixed-price outcomes-based or at-risk delivery including estimating pricing project finance budget control and commercial review.
• Practice finance: Strong financial acumen including practice P&L utilisation forecasting timesheet discipline revenue recognition and project margin management.
• Client interaction: Credibility interacting with senior client stakeholders including executives CIOs Program Directors and client sponsors.
• Formal qualifications: Relevant certifications such as PMP PRINCE2 AgilePM Scrum Master MSP SAFe or equivalent are highly regarded but not mandatory.

Core competencies

• Hands-on ownership: Operates as a doer and builder not a governance-only manager. Will personally run projects prepare materials fix issues and improve practice assets.
• Commercial judgement: Understands how consulting businesses make money and balances client outcomes quality utilisation margin and delivery risk.
• Delivery discipline: Strong planning scheduling RAID governance reporting financial control estimation and delivery assurance discipline.
• Leadership and coaching: Builds capability gives clear direction coaches Project Managers and creates an engaged high-performing PM community.
• Executive communication: Communicates clearly directly and with commercial awareness in written materials presentations and senior stakeholder forums.
• Continuous improvement: Improves ways of working through pragmatic tools reusable assets better data practical governance and measurable adoption.
• AI mindset: Technically inclined and preferably AI savvy with genuine interest in reshaping project delivery in an AI-enabled world.

Additional Information :

• AVEC Anywhere - work from anywhere in the world for 2 weeks/year!
• AVEC Time Out 6x extra leave days a year for resting learning and growing
• Award-winning workplace culture
• Industry leading parental leave policy
• Extremely attractive and competitive bonus scheme
• Annual TALENTFEST conferences
• Equity program (everyone gets a piece of the pie!)
• Global mobility
• Opportunities for development and career progression

Apply now and be part of our journey at AVEC.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time