Specialist - IT Project Management

• Lead the setup and mobilization of new products, initiatives, and Agile delivery teams across the portfolio.
• Ensure initiatives are launched with clear business outcomes, product vision, governance, success measures, stakeholder alignment, and prioritized backlogs.
• Establish and maintain Agile mobilization standards, including roadmaps, backlog structures, release planning, governance, benefits realization criteria, and reporting expectations.
• Translate strategic objectives into value-driven product roadmaps and prioritized delivery backlogs.
• Assess initiative readiness by reviewing product strategy, backlog maturity, delivery capacity, funding, dependencies, and governance.

Portfolio Delivery Excellence

• Drive consistency in Agile planning, governance, reporting, and delivery practices across the portfolio.
• Develop and continuously improve delivery standards, templates, playbooks, and quality assurance processes.
• Conduct delivery health reviews to identify risks, reporting gaps, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Coach delivery teams, Product Managers, and Project Managers on Agile delivery standards and PMO expectations.

Interim Delivery Leadership

• Provide interim leadership for priority initiatives during delivery leadership transitions.
• Stabilize delivery by maintaining governance, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and execution momentum.
• Ensure effective transition and knowledge transfer to permanent delivery leads.

Value-Focused Portfolio Management

• Advance the PMO's evolution toward a value-focused portfolio operating model.
• Align delivery activities with strategic objectives, expected business outcomes, and value realization.
• Deliver executive insights highlighting portfolio health, delivery risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and value at risk.
• Identify portfolio-wide delivery trends and recommend improvements to governance and delivery practices.

Governance and Stakeholder Management

• Strengthen portfolio governance forums, review cadences, and escalation processes.
• Build trusted relationships with executives, sponsors, Product Managers, delivery teams, and Domain Leaders.
• Challenge delivery risks, governance gaps, unclear ownership, and prioritization issues in a constructive manner.
• Promote a culture of transparency, accountability, agility, and value-focused delivery.

Success Measures

• Success will be measured through improvements in delivery readiness, Agile maturity, portfolio visibility, governance effectiveness, and business value realization
• Greater consistency in portfolio reporting and governance practices.
• Improved executive visibility into portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and value.
• Increased adoption of Agile delivery standards and PMO best practices.
• Higher percentage of initiatives achieving expected business outcomes and value realization.

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 4 to 6 years of experience in Agile delivery, project management, program management, PMO, portfolio management, or transformation delivery
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks, product lifecycle management, governance, stakeholder engagement, and value delivery.
• Experience designing and improving Agile operating models, delivery frameworks, standards, and playbooks.
• Ability to assess delivery health, identify risks, and bring structure to complex environments.
• Experience coaching cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong executive communication, analytical, organizational, and AI/data-driven decision-making skills.
• Practical, value-focused mindset with experience balancing governance, agility, and execution in technology or enterprise transformation environments.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit corporate.marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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