Job Purpose
Own and lead Avec's Project Management and PMO practice, ensuring effective delivery across a large and diverse ICT consulting portfolio while improving practice consistency, quality, commercial performance and delivery governance.
This is a hands-on senior operator role. The Practice Lead will manage and develop Avec's Project Managers, own the PM/PMO methodology, support sales and solution shaping, govern the active portfolio and personally lead billable delivery work where required.
Role context
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Portfolio scale: Avec currently manages around 150 active projects across agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery models, ranging from short multi-week engagements to multi-million-dollar, multi-year programs.
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Practice ownership: The role takes over the Project Management and PMO practice responsibilities previously held by the Director of Delivery, enabling broader delivery leadership and business growth.
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Adjacent practice influence: The role will influence cross-practice delivery across Business Analysis, Testing, Enterprise Applications and Transformation, Data and AI, Cyber and other delivery capabilities where project outcomes require coordinated delivery.
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Role split: The expected split is approximately 50% billable delivery, 40% practice leadership and governance, and 10% sales and business development support.
Key responsibilities
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Practice leadership: Lead, manage, coach and develop Avec's Project Managers, including line management, performance reviews, utilisation, capability uplift, mentoring and assignment input.
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Portfolio governance: Run daily portfolio checks, project health checks, utilisation reviews, PM community forums and monthly practice reporting across the project portfolio.
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Delivery consistency: Improve consistency in PPM usage, RAID management, project controls, reporting, governance rhythms, delivery artefacts and portfolio data quality.
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Methodology ownership: Own the Project Management and PMO methodology for Avec and drive practical implementation across agile, waterfall and hybrid engagements.
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Practice improvement: Recommend improvements to tools, templates, governance, reporting and delivery controls, then implement agreed changes with Director of Delivery approval.
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Billable delivery: Personally lead project management, program management, PMO establishment, advisory work, troubled project recovery or governance uplift assignments as required.
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Troubled project intervention: Identify delivery risk early, intervene at the right level of detail and support recovery of at-risk or troubled projects.
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Client engagement: Chair or support client steering committees where required and interact confidently with executives, CIOs, Program Directors and senior client sponsors.
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Commercial management: Own practice P&L contribution, utilisation, forecasting, project budgets, pricing support, timesheet discipline, revenue recognition and margin awareness.
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Sales support: Support the Director of Delivery, account leads and sales teams with solution shaping, estimating, pricing, proposal content, commercial review and client presentations.
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AI-enabled delivery: Lead the practical embedding of AI into project delivery ways of working, including reporting, RAID, estimation, assurance, portfolio analysis and productivity use cases.
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Hiring and capability: Lead hiring and interviewing for new Project Managers and contribute to the ongoing development of Avec's PM capability model.
Key deliverables
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Portfolio governance cadence: Daily portfolio checks, project health checks, utilisation review, PM community of practice and monthly practice reporting.
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Practice reporting: Clear reporting across portfolio, program, project, resource, commercial and delivery quality lenses.
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Delivery improvement roadmap: A prioritised set of improvements covering PPM consistency, RAID discipline, reporting quality, project controls and practical AI adoption.
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Practice financial view: Accurate utilisation, forecast, project budget, revenue recognition, margin and P&L contribution inputs.
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Reusable practice assets: Improved templates, playbooks, governance artefacts, slide decks and delivery tools that support repeatable, high-quality delivery.
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Client-facing material: Clear proposal inputs, executive presentations, steering committee packs and delivery artefacts suitable for senior client stakeholders.
