Project Management Quality & Support Officer

Job description

BNP Paribas is a leading European bank with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 192,000 employees – including more than 146,000 in Europe and over 4,000 in Portugal alone.

BNP Paribas is present in Portugal since 1985, having been one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, BNP Paribas has several entities operating directly in this territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses.

Worldwide, the Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

Global Markets – DRIVE is at the heart of Global Markets (GM) and Asset/Liability Mgt & Treasury (ALMT), contributing to alignment between Front Office and Functions, playing the role of the architects (end-to-end) of the Global Markets / ALMT Value Chain.

Within DRIVE, the Project Implementation practice hosts the Project Leads for vertical (front-office to accounting) or transversal (across several FO business lines or users groups or locations/entities) projects, especially for their implementation phase, ensuring that Governance, Transparency and Traceability are implemented for any project.

The DRIVE Project Implementation covers GM and ALMT business lines globally. The DRIVE PMO covers all projects managed by DRIVE PM.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage and facilitating the portfolio management process

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Capture project requests and ensure each request has sufficient information to assess the project

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Keep an up-to-date repository of projects

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Help in managing PM resource capacity to assess resource availability for new projects

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Ensure that flagship projects managed by DRIVE PM are setup in Clarity

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Control that Clarity setup follows evolving project management standard set out by GM and CIB PMO

Promote standards project's management practices

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Communicate on GM/CIB/DRIVE project management standard principles

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Communicate and promote the use of standard templates

Ensure that Project Management standards are followed

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Perform regular assessment of projects to ensure standards project's management practices are followed by Project Managers

Gathering of project data and production of information for management review

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Track the status of all projects based on updates from the PMs

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Standardise the way this information is compiled and reported to management, according to management needs

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Build projects' dashboard to provide a clear way to keep track of the status of projects' portfolio

Be a source of guidance and advice for Project Managers

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Provide guidance and coaching to novice project managers or new project managers who need to understand how the organisation runs projects.

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Maintain documentation of principles, standard and templates which are supporting Project Implementation

PROFILE
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Knowledge of portfolio and project methodology

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Good knowledge of the Clarity application is a plus

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Good knowledge of MS Office suite, especially PowerPoint

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Organised and delivery-focused

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Great attention to details, precise and tidy

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Clear, concise, to-the-point communication

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Self-driven, comfortable operating with a large level of autonomy

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Proactive, propose initiatives to improve quality and prevent risks / issues

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Ability to work well under short deadlines at times

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Solid work ethic and high level of motivation

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Enthusiastic and positive attitude

Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.

In case you are selected for this role, further documentation will be requested to support your hiring process.

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.