PMO Lead – Strategic Projects
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About the Role
A leading diversified holding group in Abu Dhabi seeks a PMO Lead to drive implementation of the EPMO strategy, establish project management frameworks, and support strategic projects.
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Responsibilities
- Drive successful implementation of the EPMO team's strategy, services and deliverables
- Establish frameworks and standards for Project and Program Management
- Support delivery and monitoring of ad hoc strategic and special projects
- Support the end to end process of identifying, developing, prioritizing, and implementing the highest impact, most strategic projects and programs
- Establish frameworks to manage initiatives, including methodologies, tools, and organizational structures
- Prioritize initiatives for implementation and ensure alignment with strategy
- Determine key steps and milestones for implementing initiatives in coordination with business owners
- Identify interdependencies between initiatives, and manage risks and escalation at both the individual and aggregate levels
- Report project progress, achievements, interdependencies, risks, and challenges to management
- Manage assigned EPMO manpower across initiatives and conduct regular manpower planning and allocation
Requirements
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in a Project Management Office role
- Experience managing a PMO within a holding company structure
- Led implementations from ideation through post closing of initiatives across disciplines such as CX, Procurement, HR, Marketing, Data, Innovation, and Process Improvement
- Bachelor's degree in business management or another relevant field
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Job Purpose
- Drive successful implementation of the EPMO team's strategy, services and deliverables
- Establish frameworks and standards for Project and Program Management
- Support delivery and monitoring of ad hoc strategic and special projects
Roles and Responsibilities
- Support the end to end process of identifying, developing, prioritizing, and implementing the highest impact, most strategic projects and programs in the organization
- Establish frameworks to manage initiatives, including methodologies, tools, and organizational structures
- Prioritize initiatives for implementation and ensure alignment with strategy
- Determine key steps and milestones for implementing initiatives in coordination with business owners
- Identify interdependencies between initiatives, and manage risks and escalation at both the individual and aggregate levels
- Report project progress, achievements, interdependencies, risks, and challenges to management
- Manage assigned EPMO manpower across initiatives and conduct regular manpower planning and allocation
- Set priorities for tasks and categorize them according to previously set standards
- Maintain the organizational structure and roles within each initiative's ecosystem
- Support business owners and sponsors in uplifting the quality of project plans and other project and initiative artifacts
- Review quality and performance reports and perform quality assurance on all initiative deliverables/outputs
- Manage and monitor change requests, ensuring adherence to approved policies
Years of Experience, Qualifications & Skills
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in a Project Management Office role
- Experience managing a PMO within a holding company structure
- Led implementations from ideation through post closing of initiatives across disciplines such as CX, Procurement, HR, Marketing, Data, Innovation, and Process Improvement
- Project management
- Leadership skills
- Strategic planning
- Research and analysis
- AI prompting and document production skills are highly advantageous
- Bachelor's degree in business management or another relevant field
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