Regional Pod / Portfolio Lead

Job Summary

Position Summary The Regional Pod / Portfolio Lead is an Associate director-level role responsible for cross-market coordination, portfolio oversight, and execution management across KPMG T&I's multi-country engagements. This role acts as the operational backbone of the T&I delivery model - ensuring that cross-border engagements are staffed, managed, and tracked with commercial discipline, and that delivery resources are deployed optimally across the portfolio. The Regional Pod Lead works in close partnership with the T&I Delivery / Domain Leads, Alliance Market Leads, and Delivery Directors to maintain portfolio health and prevent resourcing gaps that lead to delivery failure.

Job Details

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&I's 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&I's delivery operating model, methodology, and governance framework.

Requirements

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.

Benefits

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
• Continuous learning and development.
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.
• Opportunity for international travel.

About Company

KPMG Professional Services

https://home.kpmg.com/ng

KPMG Professional Services and KPMG Advisory Services are the KPMG member firm in Nigeria. The partners and people have been operating in Nigeria since 1978, providing multidisciplinary professional services to both local and international organisations within the Nigerian business community. Our vision is to build and sustain our reputation as the best firm to work with by ensuring our people, clients and communities achieve their full potential. At KPMG, we are committed to working with our clients to cut through complexities of the business world; finding solutions and adding value. Our combination of international and local market knowledge and perspective give us an edge in the professional services industry in Nigeria. This combination enables the Nigerian practice to add real value by developing strategies that give the firms clients a distinct edge over their competitors. As one of the leading providers of professional services, KPMG knows that the success and growth of the firm also depends on the success and growth of the Nigerian economy. Hence, it champions progressive change and makes the future happen for its clients, people and the community, thereby enabling Nigeria success. The firm is involved in the formulation of economic policies for Nigeria through the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. The firm has a full complement of 59 partners and over 1,500 trained and dedicated professional staff; with deep industry skills and competencies in audit, tax and advisory services. KPMG has worked for clients in the public and private sec tor in Nigeria and in several other countries, helping to transform business performance and operations.