PMO Lead

Location: Holon (Hybrid)

About Us

Sapiens is a global leader in the insurance industry, delivering its award-winning, cloud-based SaaS insurance platform to over 600 customers in more than 30 countries. Sapiens’ platform offers pre-integrated, low-code capabilities to accelerate customers’ digital transformation. With more than 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens has a highly professional team of over 5,000 employees globally.

What You’ll Do

Leading PMO Team:

• Lead and mentor a team of 3-4 PMO professionals, fostering their growth and ensuring high-quality project management practices.
• Requires proven experience of having served as a PMO and previously managing PMOs, demonstrating leadership in establishing and overseeing project management standards and practices .
• Establish and maintain project management standards, methodologies, and best practices across the organization.
• Oversee multiple implementation projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Collaborate with senior management to align project objectives with the company's strategic goals
• Drive continuous improvement of project management processes and tools.
• Facilitate communication and knowledge sharing across project teams.
• Assistance to operations on project estimations.
  

• Project planning and tracking responsibilities:
• Resource plans, analysis, timelines, releases, and sprints.
• Scope, resource, and budget management (work plans, project Dashboards, plans vs. actual analysis, invoice lifecycle etc...).
• Comprehensive understanding of the project:
• Integral part of the project, with an overall understanding of the technical, financial, legal, and marketing aspects of the whole program.
• Holistic view from the customers' perspective.
• Ability to shift attention and focus to the areas they are most needed, be it hands-on or by connecting the right people at the right time.
• Make sure our planning and analysis tools bring the most value, for all stakeholders – be the first level of support for project management systems to all internal users’ needs and constraints and adjust accordingly.
• Learn and teach – ramp-up fast on new tools and methodologies and train internal and external users with system functionality worldwide.
• Take an active part in developing new planning tools and modules – implement, define, and test new capabilities.
• More would follow, things are changing fast all the time – continuous learning is a key aspect of this job.
  
  

• B.Sc. degree in Information Systems/ Industrial Engineering / Economics (or equivalent).
• Experience in financial aspects in project management - Knowledge / Experience with P&L.
• Excel is a friend - Deep knowledge.
• At least 5 years of experience in PMO activities such as Planning & Control and 2+ years of managerial experience.
• Experience in global project management of technological projects.
• Presentation skills - Ability to create & deliver presentations effectively.
• Ability to work across time zones (Travels are optional).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Fluent English and Hebrew.
  

• Experienced with using different project management tools - e.g., MS Project, Jira, Sciforma.
• A PMP or Agile certification (CSM, PMI-ACP is preferred)
• Experience in insurance companies.