Project Management Principal
Metyis
Project Management Principal
Metyis is seeking a Project Management Principal with 8+ years of experience to join their Data and Analytics team in Porto. The role involves leading complex programmes and portfolios, driving strategic business outcomes, and managing multidisciplinary teams. The position is full-time, on-site, and requires strong expertise in programme and portfolio management, digital transformation, and executive stakeholder management.
Project Management Principal
Metyis is seeking a Project Management Principal with 8+ years of experience to join their Data and Analytics team in Porto. The role involves leading complex programmes and portfolios, driving strategic business outcomes, and managing multidisciplinary teams. The position is full-time, on-site, and requires strong expertise in programme and portfolio management, digital transformation, and executive stakeholder management.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead complex programmes and portfolios comprising multiple projects, workstreams, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver strategic business outcomes.
- Define programme and portfolio delivery strategies, governance frameworks, execution roadmaps, and operating models aligned with client objectives.
- Ensure alignment between business priorities, product roadmaps, technology initiatives, and delivery plans across multiple programmes.
- Drive successful delivery by balancing scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, and benefits realization across the portfolio.
- Monitor programme performance through KPIs, executive reporting, financial oversight, and portfolio health reviews.
- Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors and senior business stakeholders, acting as the primary delivery partner throughout strategic engagements.
- Lead executive steering committees, programme governance forums, portfolio reviews, and strategic planning workshops.
- Provide strategic advice on programme prioritization, investment decisions, delivery approaches, organizational readiness, and transformation governance.
- Proactively manage executive risks, escalations, dependencies, and cross-functional decision making.
- Ensure effective communication across executive leadership, business teams, delivery teams, and external partners.
- Establish and continuously improve programme governance, delivery methodologies, reporting standards, quality assurance, and portfolio management practices.
- Lead multiple Project Managers and multidisciplinary delivery teams, providing coaching, mentoring, and performance guidance.
- Drive resource planning, capacity management, financial forecasting, vendor coordination, and delivery optimization across programmes.
- Promote Delivery Excellence by introducing best practices, reusable frameworks, delivery standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure programme outcomes achieve measurable business value, customer adoption, and organizational benefits.
- Support strategic business development through proposal leadership, solution shaping, commercial discussions, and executive client presentations.
- Identify opportunities to expand client relationships and develop new transformation initiatives.
- Contribute to Delivery Excellence capability growth through thought leadership, methodology development, mentoring, recruitment, and knowledge sharing.
- Represent Metyis in executive client engagements, industry forums, and strategic transformation initiatives.
- Travel as required to support strategic client engagements.