
Selena Suparman
Senior Program & Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
14 Potsdam, Germany
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Program & Project Management expert with 8+ years at top consulting firms including Deloitte and Accenture. Built a PMO department of 60+ people and led PMO teams of 12+ managing 30+ projects, built strategic PMO setups, and drove agile transformations across public and private sectors. Specialized in end-to-end project delivery, team leadership, and organizational change management.
Work experience
Deloitte
Feb 2022 - Present
4 years 9 months
14 Potsdam, Germany
Manager
Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 10 months
14 Potsdam, Germany
Full-time parenting
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
11 months
14 Potsdam, Germany
Elternzeit
PM/O Cluster Lead // Senior Expert
Feb 2022 - Jan 2024
2 years
Remote · Remote
Cluster Lead: Building a new PM/O cluster within Deloitte Services (DS), a newly founded subsidiary of Deloitte Consulting • Shaping the DS PM/O vision, portfolio offering and expert track as a career path • Leading interviews and assessing potential candidates • Consulting on individual staffing decisions, project placements and training curriculum • Orchestrating dialogue between all PMO professionals • Engaged in women empowerment initiatives Deloitte Services Startup: • Setup of organizational structures and processes within financial controlling, intercompany billing, recruiting, and onboarding • Preparation and part of first Deloitte Services ISO9001 Audit PMO Senior Expert Client facing projects – Strategic PMO Setup: • As-is analysis of the business unit, conceptualization of a possible PMO setup and definition of the PMO orientation (agile, hybrid, classic) • Introduction of scalable standard processes, templates, and specifications for project management (best practices) to standardize quality standards • Role definition of the strategic PMO, creation of a PMO service catalog and PMO mission and vision • Roll-out planning in line with the needs of the current projects • Identification of suitable PMO employees and empowerment of these employees to independently continue and develop their area • Roll-out of the new PMO processes through various measures (training, self-study, wiki pages, PMO manual, Q&A sessions, deep dives, and shadowing) • Coach for agile project management methodologies (Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Design Thinking, …) Deloitte internal projects: • Strategy, setup, mobilization, and implementation of a cross-account PMO for entire Deloitte public sector consulting, incl. organizational structures and processes, hiring and people development programs, while introducing agile PMO approaches • Account PMO Lead of a team of 12 – portfolio consisting of >6 clients and >30 projects
Accenture DACH
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
4 years 10 months
53 Bonn, Germany
PMO Associate Manager
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
2 months
53 Bonn, Germany
• Account PMO Lead of a team of nine – portfolio consisting of 4-6 clients, >30 projects and overall >200 resources • Mobilization and setup of multiple account PMO’s, incl. organizational structures and processes, hiring and people development programs, while introducing agile PMO approaches • Orchestrating and leading leadership workshops to work on strategy, developing new ideas in co-creation and driving new (digital) initiatives • Trainer for various internal project management courses (mostly agile PMO, sales, financials and KPI’s) • Extensive financial management, i.e., sales and revenue forecasting, cash flow, project budget and scope • Development and execution of activities in end-to-end IT-project management, incl. portfolio strategy, project planning, controlling, budgeting, and reporting
PMO Specialist
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 1 month
53 Bonn, Germany
PMO Senior Analyst
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year 1 month
Cologne Bonn Region
PMO Analyst
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year 1 month
Cologne Bonn Region
- Coaching, assessing and supporting the mobilization of a project in the public sector - Account PMO Lead of a client within the public sector - Building a broad training program for the Account - Preparing and conducting multiple design thinking workshops - Developing and implementing end-to-end project management activities, incl. project plans, project controlling,- budgeting and reporting, as well as a continuous process optimization - Trainer for our internal project management trainees (Focus: Financials and Metrics) for Accenture New Joiners („Jump Start Program“)
PMO Associate
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 7 months
Cologne Bonn Region
- Mobilized and now leading the Account PMO Team of a growing account in the Defense Sector - 3-months Assessment and Mobilization of an Account PMO - Implementation of operational, standardized processes, such as a central project reporting and controlling. - The aim of the Account PMO is to operationally support and steer a rapidly growing client
PMO Jump Starter
Apr 2017 - May 2017
2 months
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area
2 months PMO Trainee
Sales Consultant
EF Education First
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
3 months
70 Stuttgart, Germany
- As part of a 2-person team with ambitious sales targets, I was responsible for all program sales and marketing activities in the entire Baden-Württemberg region - Selling language courses abroad through direct customer contact, representing EF at trade shows, info meetings and on the phone
PMO Intern in Customer Lifecycle Management
BMW Group
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
10 months
Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Oversight of a big cross-departmental Digital-Transformation-Project - Organizing the annual global Customer-Lifecycle-Management Joint Conference - Department and project budget - Independent work on smaller projects
Business Operations Summer Intern
PT. BANK NEGARA INDONESIA (Persero) Tbk.
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
2 months
London, UK
PMO/Sales & Exports (Thesis) Intern
Beth-El Industries
Sep 2014 - May 2015
9 months
Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel
- Preparing for and presenting at exhibitions - Handling RFI/RFQs - Preparing Quotations and processing Orders - General Customer Correspondance
Public Affairs Office Summer Intern
NATO
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
2 months
Shapwick, Bridgwater TA7, UK
Intern in the public affairs office
Education
De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)
2012 - 2015
3 years 1 month
Universidad del Pacífico (PE)
Study Exchange
2014 - 2014
1 month
SHAPE International School
Abitur
2009 - 2012
3 years 1 month
Burger-Roland Gymnasium
2007 - 2009
2 years 1 month
Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium
2005 - 2007
2 years 1 month