Regional Pod / Portfolio Lead

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.
  

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.
  

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.
  

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.