Specialist - IT Project Management

Company:Marsh

Description:

IT Project Management Specialist

We are seeking an IT Project Management Specialist to join our team at Marsh. This role will be based in Mexico City. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office. As an IT Project Management Specialist, you will partner closely with project managers, domain leads, sponsors, and PMO leadership to ensure initiatives are set up for success, managed consistently, and aligned to business value. This is a hands-on transformation role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, improve delivery practices, and help the organization focus not only on project execution, but on measurable value. This work will include implementation of AI for better controls and insights generation 

We will count on you to:

Project Setup and Agile Mobilization

• 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.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.