Beacon Power Services has been on the forefront of developing energy management software and providing energy analytics in Nigeria since 2010.
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.
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