Senior Manager – PMO at Beacon Power Services

About the Role
How You'll Make an Impact:

• We are looking for a results-driven and highly organized Senior Manager – PMO to translate client commitments into clearly defined, executable projects and ensures they are delivered efficiently, on time, and to BPS’s quality standards.
• As the central coordination hub, the PMO drives delivery discipline, governance, and cross-functional alignment, while acting as a critical bridge between clients and internal teams, including Technology and Operations.

What You'll Do
Planning & Initiation:

• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables
• Develop detailed project plans, including work breakdown structures, sequencing, dependencies, and resource allocation
• Identify project risks and constraints early, implementing proactive mitigation strategies
• Build and manage project budgets, tracking spend and forecasting costs throughout the project lifecycle

Execution & Control:

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, ensuring clear ownership and balanced workloads
• Monitor progress against plans, adjusting timelines, scope, and resources as needed to ensure on-time delivery
• Ensure all deliverables meet agreed quality standards and stakeholder expectations

Communication & Stakeholder Management:

• Provide clear, regular project status updates to internal stakeholders and clients, highlighting progress, risks, and resource utilization
• Facilitate effective project forums, including kick-offs, status meetings, and retrospectives, to drive alignment and decision-making
• Act as the primary escalation point for project risks, issues, and conflicts

Project Close-Out:

• Secure formal acceptance and sign-off of deliverables from clients and internal stakeholders
• Ensure complete, accurate, and accessible project documentation
• Lead post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and continuously improve delivery practices

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Define and own the annual operating plan for the function, including workforce and financial planning
• Manage and optimize departmental budgets
• Make strategic resource allocation decisions
• Build, scale, and structure teams to support long-term capability development
• Establish performance frameworks, succession planning, and leadership development pathways
• Ensure governance, risk management, and operational maturity across the function
• Drive the creation of standardized, scalable systems that enable consistent execution across regions

What We're Looking For
Professional & Technical Strengths:

• Experience operating in a PMO capacity within international, multicultural environments involving multiple stakeholders and complex rollouts
• Strong command of project management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, or similar)
• Sound understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and structured PMO frameworks
• Proven ability to manage project budgets, forecasting, interdependencies, risks, and resource allocation across multiple concurrent workstreams

Leadership & Interpersonal Strengths:

• Ability to collaborate with multicultural and geographically distributed teams
• High degree of autonomy and accountability (we operate within a hybrid work environment)
• High-ownership, go-getter mindset with relentless follow-through
• Ability to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex initiatives
• Strong personal presence with the ability to influence, align, and mobilize teams
• Direct, confident communicator across senior leaders, clients, and delivery teams
• Resilient and adaptable, thriving in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Collaborative, results-driven with the ability to empower teams and deliver

Nice to Have:

• Experience in energy, utilities, infrastructure, or cleantech
• Exposure to grid management systems, SCADA, or analytics platforms
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification
• Fluency in French.