Centre Of Excellence Role - Major Project Advisory - Big4

The MPA Centre of Excellence ('MPA CoE') currently seeks to appoint a leader bringing specific expertise areas:

1. Program and project-level planning, scheduling, baselining and critical path management (for owner and underlying service providers), progress measurement, monitoring and reporting,

2. Predictive analytics, scenario building and forecasting,

3. Application of time optimisation levers with the wider project team, articulating associated/underlying activities such as optimised work methodologies, crashing and parallel processing, etc., and creating targets,

4. Leverage methodologies such as OTIF, TOC, CCPM, lean and other planning and control methods for improved project performance,

5. Serve as KPMG Subject Matter Expert on business pitches to clients and during client service delivery to enhance KPMG's value proposition (showcase domain / industry capability and expertise as outlined above)

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Lead the MPA Centre of Excellence ('MPA CoE') by defining and implementing processes, developing capabilities, managing talent and delivering quality for capital program and project delivery.

- Implement processes, identify and deploy tools and/or resources for Centre of Excellence to deliver quality deliverables to MPA projects and clients.

- Explore opportunities to identify activities / tasks from multiple consulting assignment to be taken up by the Centre of Excellence

- Capture, document and demonstrate the value created by the MPA CoE and wider MPA project team,

- Define standards, handbooks / manuals and conduct trainings across the wider MPA team.

- Build and manage a team to grow specialization in these areas, and

- Identify team members from within and outside of the firm to work on various areas of project implementation to work in MPA CoE such as Project Controls, Contract Management, Schedule Management, Data Analytics, Technology Implementation, Report Preparation etc.

- Develop and mentor teams and create future leaders

- Create path-breaking / innovative concepts and methodologies for capital projects' solutions / clients and enable through digital tools and technology solutions

- Identify improvement and efficiency opportunities across the function, which can be taken up by Centre of Excellence

- Gather understanding of MPA's client and team to collaborate across locations, sectors, projects and solutions for successfully developing and leveraging capability from the Centre of Excellence.

THE INDIVIDUAL:

- Excellent communication skills (verbal and non-verbal)

- Ability to work well in a team and function naturally as a team leader

- Project Management functional knowledge and practical experiences in managing large Centre of Excellence / Delivery Centers for capital projects

- Sound technical knowledge and domain expertise; can include 'deep knowledge in one or more specific industry sectors', and/or 'generalist knowledge across sectors and specific skills in particular phase(s) of the project lifecycle', preferred industries include - metals, mining, industrial manufacturing, oil & gas, automotives, natural and renewable energy, transportation (roads, metro, rail), wider infrastructure including urban development (not a restrictive list)

- Knowledge of global best practices related to the specific expertise areas called out above. Candidates with experience of serving at global capability centres would have an advantage

- Ability to work in a high-performance and dynamic environment

- Strong analytical, research and consulting skills, and abilities at being a fast-learner

- Experience in using Primavera, ERP, Schedule Analytics, BIM, Digital Twin and other technical software to train teams in implementation in delivery.

- Experience of working and leading teams for delivery centers to cater and serve client facing teams, preferably in the sector of capital construction projects.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Engineering Degree and Master's Degree

- Two levels: 12-15 or 15-18 years of overall experience with prior experience in setting up delivery centres / centre of excellence and project controls for capital projects.

- Project Management Professional - by Project Management Institute and/or other credentials in the field of Project Management are preferred

SELECTION PROCESS:

- Candidates should expect 3 rounds of personal or telephonic interviews to assess fitment

COMPENSATION:

- Compensation is competitive with industry standards

- Details of the compensation breakup will be shared with short-listed candidates only

PEOPLE BENEFITS:

- Exposure to the finest and high-performance advisory / consulting environment

- Development of leadership potential, opportunity to grow the practice and help lead this consulting business

- Rich experiences in managing multiple infrastructure sectors, projects, client issues, team development, complex subjects - and importantly, the opportunity to create an impact with exposure to large infrastructure investments and the access to key client decision makers

- Learning and hands-on working to contemporary agenda items that matter, viz. digital tools, predictive analytics, ESG, others

- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for staff and family

- Expansive general and accidental coverage for staff

MANDATES- CONSULTING BACKGROUND,GLOBAL PROJECTS,CONSTRUCTIONAL DOMAIN EXP.

Interested candidates call - 9899356010