Job Responsibilities:
Portfolio Ownership: Provide end-to-end leadership for non-BAU infrastructure and technology projects, from demand qualification and prioritisation through delivery and closure.
Delivery Assurance: Set the governance, controls, and decision cadence needed to deliver scope, milestones, budget, quality, risk, and intended business outcomes.
Core + Flex Leadership: Translate the rolling demand pipeline into credible capacity plans, mobilising the right project managers, architects, and specialist resources.
Operational Handover: Ensure every project is accepted into BAU with clear ownership, documentation, knowledge transfer, support readiness, and benefits tracking.
Shape and Prioritize the Portfolio: Own demand intake, qualification, sequencing, and portfolio trade-offs; maintain a transparent view of commitments, dependencies, and value.
Establish Governance and Assurance: Define stage gates, reporting, decision rights, and escalation paths; challenge delivery health and intervene early where outcomes are at risk.
Direct Delivery Across Workstreams: Hold program and project leaders accountable for scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, benefits, and stakeholder commitments.
Align Capacity to Demand: Convert 30/60/90-day forecasts into resource plans; mobilise core and flex talent, resolve skill gaps, and manage ramp-up or ramp-down decisions.
Lead Senior Stakeholders: Provide clear executive reporting, facilitate decisions, negotiate priorities, and align client, account leadership, functional teams, and suppliers.
Secure Operational Readiness: Drive acceptance, knowledge transfer, documentation, support readiness, lessons learned, and benefits tracking before closure or BAU handover.
Requirements
The ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:
- 12+ years of experience in project / program delivery.
- 5+ years of experience leading portfolios or PMO/PLO functions.
- Complex Portfolio Delivery: Proven leadership of multi-workstream technology or infrastructure change with material budgets, dependencies, and executive visibility.
- Managed-Service Context: Experience with service transition, supplier ecosystems, global delivery models, and structured handover into operations.
- Commercial Accountability: Strong command of business cases, budgets, statements of work, benefits, resource forecasts, and vendor performance.
- Executive Influence: Track record of resolving ambiguity, negotiating priorities, and communicating difficult decisions with clarity and credibility.
- Portfolio Leadership: Experience in prioritisation, roadmaps, governance, dependency management, risk, assurance, and benefits realisation.
- Delivery Methods: Fluency in predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery, with practical use of stage gates and portfolio controls.
- Technology Breadth: Working knowledge across cloud, platforms, networks, workplace, security, and service-management environments.
- People Leadership: Ability to lead senior project professionals, build accountable teams, and coach through complex delivery challenges.
- Data-Led Communication: Strong financial literacy, concise executive reporting, and confidence with PPM, planning, and dashboard tools.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience in project or program delivery
- 5+ years of experience leading portfolios or PMO/PLO functions
- Proven leadership of complex, multi-workstream technology or infrastructure change with material budgets, dependencies, and executive visibility
- Experience with service transition, supplier ecosystems, global delivery models, and structured handover into operations
- Strong command of business cases, budgets, statements of work, benefits, resource forecasts, and vendor performance
- Track record of resolving ambiguity, negotiating priorities, and communicating difficult decisions clearly and credibly
- Experience in prioritization, roadmaps, governance, dependency management, risk, assurance, and benefits realization
- Fluency in predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery methods, with practical use of stage gates and portfolio controls
- Working knowledge across cloud, platforms, networks, workplace, security, and service-management environments
- Ability to lead senior project professionals, build accountable teams, and coach through complex delivery challenges
- Strong financial literacy, concise executive reporting, and confidence with PPM, planning, and dashboard tools
What We Do
NexusCorp LLC (operating as Nexus Corporation) helps businesses achieve their goals through custom software development, IT consulting, statement-of-work delivery, contingent workforce and direct-hire solutions, and payroll services. It designs, builds, tests, and maintains scalable digital applications; analyzes systems to improve technology use; and supplies specialized professionals and structured project delivery. Its client-first approach emphasizes compliance, integrity, innovation, and tailored business outcomes.
