Viola Verebes

Senior PMO and Portfolio Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Budapest, Hungary

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Project Management (PMO)Strategy & Consulting

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Senior PMO Leader with 20+ years driving global project portfolios worth £90M+ across Fortune 500 companies. Expert in establishing governance frameworks, implementing portfolio tools, and managing complex migrations for BP, Diageo, and multinational corporations. Delivering measurable results through strategic PMO setup and cross-functional team leadership.

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Work experience

PMO Lead

Climate-KIC

May 2024 - Aug 2024

4 months

Horn, Netherlands

- Estabilishing a new Governance structure as well as implementing PPM Anywhere portfolio tool. - Defining and setting up the Project Management methodology - reviewing and refreshing/optimizing processes on area of Project management - managing the contract and tool setup with the Anywhere co.

Global PMO Office Lead

bp

Feb 2020 - Aug 2023

3 years 7 months

Budapest, Hungary

- Setting up Project Portfolio Governance model for BP shared services - Estabilishment of Reporting process for SSC Projets - implementation of Project Online portfolio tool, development, tailoring, training of employees - managing a team of 7

PMO and Portfolio Manager

ESAB

Dec 2018 - Dec 2019

1 year 1 month

Budapest, Hungary

PMO for SSC in Budapest and Chennai (India). Responsible for the running projects and changes in the organization. Leading a team of 5 , PMs, project SMEs. Project: - Office move - different migrations / transitions (PTP/ RTR/OTC) - process improvements - system implementations - PTP automation - legal separation of two entities - Concur implementation

Global PMO and Portfolio Manager

Diageo

Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

1 year 1 month

Dad, 2854 Hungary

- setting up a Governance model for the global project department - setting up Global PMO team and process from scratch - launching and managing the Global Resourcing process to ensure resources to project roles, - Global Portfolio management, 255 inflight project of 70 M GBP and cc. 200 pipeline projects of 90 M GBP - setting up the Global Reporting process, creating reporting cadence, development of the reporting tool (PlanView) - Change management in PDC - Reporting to Executive level - managing a team of 21 people

PMO and Transition Manager

FrieslandCampina

Feb 2017 - May 2017

4 months

Budapest, Hungary

Skills: Business Transformation · Project Management Office (PMO)

Migration Project Manager , SSC

Mylan

Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

1 year

Budapest, Hungary

- Migration Project management - SAP implementation - Migrating finance processes (PTP, RTR, OTC) from European countries to Budapest SSC

Project Manager, SSC

ESAB

Mar 2013 - Mar 2015

2 years 1 month

Budapest, Hungary

- Managing the Migrations of Controlling and Credit Control functions from 8 EU countries to Budapest SSC. (SE, UK/IE, ES, FR, DE, IT, SK, PL) - Factory Finance transition to SSC (CZ, PL) - North-American AP migration to SSC - Colfax Fluid Handling migration to SSC: - Claim handling (Sweden) and - Order processing activities (Germany) - Legal Entity Reduction - Program Management - Project Management trainings and Workshops to ESAB employees - Interim Operations manager for Colfax Claim Handling and Order processing teams

Implementation Program Manager

CEVA Logistics

Feb 2010 - Jan 2013

3 years

Dad, 2854 Hungary

Program Manager of a large-scale implementation for Philips Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle operations in HU, CZ, IT, PL. It was a 20 million EUR greenfield investment in Hungary, with a revenue of 6 M EUR/yr, same parameters for the Czech implementation. As Program Manager I coordinated all aspects of the project: - IT implementation, - recruitment of cc 200 FTEs for both Hungary and Czech - managing the facility setups - creating and implementing operational processes for both warehouses, - contract negotiating with subcongtractors, - coordinating the Steerco decision making forum with Philips - manaing the stock migration itself, from 15 countries to Hungary and from 8 countries to Czech. I was in charge to manage the Hungarian and Czech greenfield implementation paralelly at the same time, as well as manaing a stock move in Italy for Philips warehouse, and managing a process improvement project for Philips Poland.

SCM and Logistics Consultant

Accenture

Mar 2007 - Mar 2009

2 years 1 month

London, Leeds, UK / Dublin, Limerick, Ireland

- PMO at DELL project - moving factory from IE (Limerick) to PL (Lodz) - PMO at HSE (Health Service Executive), Dublin HQ - re-organize and rationalize the Procurement and Logistics Dep. at HSE - Network Designer at Marks & Spencer, London HQ - redesign the global SC network of M&S (Garments) - PMO at Microsoft, Dublin HQ - re-design reverse flows at MS - Database development at ETS (Educational Testing Service), Leeds, UK - Deployment Lead for IQNavigator, Accenture internal project - implementing IQNavigator Procurement tool to ACN Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Ireland.

Commercial Director

FM Logistic

Mar 2006 - Aug 2006

6 months

Budapest, Hungary

Commercial planning (L'oreal)

Business Development Manager CEE

DHL Supply Chain

Sep 2003 - Dec 2005

2 years 4 months

Central Eastern Europe

Planning and implementing new contract logistics operations in EE countries (Samsung, Reemtsma)

Business Development Manager

Tibbett and Britten Hungary

Sep 1999 - Oct 2003

4 years 2 months

Üllő, 2225 Hungary

- Planning new warehousing operations - getting new contracts, managing contract negotiations with potential customers - Implementing new logistics businesses - Commercial planning, budgeting - Contract negotiations (GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Stollwerck, Auchan, Tesco)


Education

Corvinus University of Budapest

MSc

1994 - 1999

5 years 1 month

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