Regional Pod Portfolio Lead

Key roles and responsibilities:

(a) Portfolio and Resource Management (45%)

• Maintain a live view of the T&I delivery portfolio across all active engagements tracking revenue margin RAID status and staffing against plan.
• Oversee resource allocation across markets - matching delivery capability to active engagements and ensuring no engagement is under-resourced.
• Facilitate cross-market staffing and manage the deployment of shared delivery resources (architects PMO leads delivery managers) across the portfolio.
• Produce regular portfolio health reports for the T&I leadership team flagging risks escalations and capacity constraints.
• Manage onboarding and mobilisation logistics for new engagements ensuring teams are ready to deliver from Day one.

(b) Delivery Execution and Quality Oversight (30%)

• Run the T&I weekly delivery review cadence - facilitating portfolio reviews escalation resolution and cross-engagement risk management.
• Identify systemic delivery issues (repeated scope creep resourcing gaps RAID failures) and drive corrective action across the portfolio.
• Work with PMO / Delivery Assurance Leads (Block C) to enforce delivery standards reporting templates and governance frameworks.
• Track and report on gross margin per engagement flagging deviations from budget and supporting remediation planning.
• Coordinate with Alliance Market Leads (Block D) to ensure pipeline-to-delivery handoffs are seamless and commercially clean.

(c) Stakeholder Management and Coordination (20%)

• Serve as the operational point of contact for cross-member-firm T&I engagements managing coordination between KPMG offices in different African markets.
• Support the Domain Leads in managing client relationships at the portfolio level - tracking overall account health satisfaction and expansion opportunity.
• Participate in the T&I planning process contributing resource capacity data market pipeline intelligence and portfolio forecasts.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of KPMG T&Is delivery operating model methodology and governance framework.

Key roles and responsibilities:

(a) Portfolio and Resource Management (45%)

• Maintain a live view of the T&I delivery portfolio across all active engagements tracking revenue margin RAID status and staffing against plan.
• Oversee resource allocation across markets - matching delivery capability to active engagements and ensuring no engagement is under-resourced.
• Facilitate cross-market staffing and manage the deployment of shared delivery resources (architects PMO leads delivery managers) across the portfolio.
• Produce regular portfolio health reports for the T&I leadership team flagging risks escalations and capacity constraints.
• Manage onboarding and mobilisation logistics for new engagements ensuring teams are ready to deliver from Day one.

(b) Delivery Execution and Quality Oversight (30%)

• Run the T&I weekly delivery review cadence - facilitating portfolio reviews escalation resolution and cross-engagement risk management.
• Identify systemic delivery issues (repeated scope creep resourcing gaps RAID failures) and drive corrective action across the portfolio.
• Work with PMO / Delivery Assurance Leads (Block C) to enforce delivery standards reporting templates and governance frameworks.
• Track and report on gross margin per engagement flagging deviations from budget and supporting remediation planning.
• Coordinate with Alliance Market Leads (Block D) to ensure pipeline-to-delivery handoffs are seamless and commercially clean.

(c) Stakeholder Management and Coordination (20%)

• Serve as the operational point of contact for cross-member-firm T&I engagements managing coordination between KPMG offices in different African markets.
• Support the Domain Leads in managing client relationships at the portfolio level - tracking overall account health satisfaction and expansion opportunity.
• Participate in the T&I planning process contributing resource capacity data market pipeline intelligence and portfolio forecasts.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of KPMG T&Is delivery operating model methodology and governance framework.

Academic/ Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant degree in Business Technology Project Management or a related field.
• PMP PRINCE2 or MSP certification preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in technology consulting or programme management with at least 3 years managing multi-country portfolios.
• Demonstrated experience managing delivery portfolios of USD 10M across multiple simultaneous engagements.
• Proficiency in portfolio management tools and reporting frameworks.
• Experience working across multiple African markets.

Technical competencies & Personal attributes:

Demonstrate and articulate KPMG values as well as proven capability in:

• Portfolio thinking able to hold a clear view of multiple simultaneous engagements and identify portfolio-level risks and opportunities.
• Organisational discipline: strong project and programme governance skills with attention to delivery detail.
• Collaborative leadership: able to influence and coordinate senior stakeholders across multiple markets without direct authority.
• Commercial awareness: understands the financial drivers of consulting engagements and can interpret margin and pipeline data.
• Adaptability: comfortable managing in complex fast-moving multi-market environments.
• Communication: clear and structured communicator able to present portfolio status to senior leadership with confidence.
• Market Intelligence: Demonstrate commercial awareness with sound knowledge of matters affecting the market.
• Business development entrepreneurial mind-set and ability to identify opportunities and develop high quality proposals.
• Personal effectiveness - Excellent report-writing and presentation skills.
• People management - Leadership & management skills.
• Performance management - Be a performance manager to the team in line with performance management guidelines.
• Risk management-lead in ensuring full compliance with KPMG quality & risk management requirements

Capacity building - Takes a lead in building capability of team to future proof workforce and full utilization of existing workforce.