The Project Management Office (PMO) director will establish and lead Mimecast’s PMO. The PMO director is responsible for various methods and practices around provisioning IT into the business and tracking / reporting the conformance to plans and expectations of IT-oriented initiatives. The PMO director is also responsible for supporting and enabling the direcorganization's projects and programs, while prioritizing cross functional resources according to our executive’s plans.

As the Director - PMO you will be responsible for:

• Helps PMO stakeholders and organizational leadership foster a project-management-oriented culture and mindset
• Engages senior leadership and business partners to define the PMO mission, goals and operating model
• Creates PMO roles and team configurations
• Implementation of project management processes, methods, tools, guidelines and standards
• Upholds the agreed-upon process and prioritization by leadership
• Defines, manages and directs the needed end-to-end PMO work effort, which includes leveraging best practices and techniques in identifying, quantifying and tracking the realization of expected benefits defined in business cases
• Provides ongoing coaching and mentoring to PMO staff and project managers
• Builds and maintains relationships with senior leadership and key PMO stakeholders
• Regularly reviews and evaluates opportunities to improve the project management best practices

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Fifteen or more years of experience in IT and business/industry
• Five to seven years of leadership responsibilities
• Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with one or more project management methodologies (for example, PMI PMBOK, PRINCE2 and agile)
• Program management skills and experience, plus significant knowledge of project planning tools with evidence of practical application (which is highly desirable)
• Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to develop and communicate the PMO vision, and inspire and motivate PMO staff
• A balance of business, IT, financial and communication skills
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning and execution skills
• Strong business acumen, including industry specific knowledge
• Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a strategic resource plan
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain IT concepts and technologies to business leaders, and business concepts to the PMO staff

Reward

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including private healthcare, dental and life coverage.  Mimecast is an entrepreneurial and high growth company which will provide the right candidate with a wealth of career development opportunities.  All Mimecasters strive on being high performers, problem solvers, and team players with passion and integrity.