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.
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.
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.