Portfolio Control Senior Manager
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About the Role
Takamol Holding seeks a Portfolio Control Senior Manager to lead enterprise-wide portfolio management practices. You will ensure strategic alignment, financial governance, and execution transparency across initiatives.
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Responsibilities
- Partner with executive leadership to support development and refinement of organizational strategy
- Define and lead the enterprise wide PPM framework, standards, and operating model
- Design and enforce a centralized demand intake and approval process
- Establish and govern a standardized prioritization model (value, cost, risk, dependencies)
- Own portfolio level financial oversight, including budget alignment and tracking
- Define and enforce portfolio governance frameworks, stage gates, and approval workflows
- Lead implementation and governance of PPM tools and platforms
- Provide executive dashboards and portfolio insights (status, risks, financials, dependencies)
- Assess current maturity and define a PPM maturity roadmap
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or related field
- 10–15+ years of experience in Project, Program, or Portfolio Management
- Proven experience in establishing or transforming PPM functions at enterprise level
- Demonstrated experience developing or contributing to digital transformation strategies and multi year technology roadmaps
- Proven track record of designing and running portfolio prioritization frameworks
- Experience in complex, multi stakeholder environments
- Strong exposure to financial governance, budgeting, and investment planning
- Experience leading a team or function; managing people and building a practice
- PMP certification required
- PMI PfMP or PgMP certification highly preferred
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Job Description
- The Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Senior Manager is responsible for leading and institutionalizing enterprise wide portfolio management practices.
- This role acts as a critical bridge between strategy and execution, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into a governed, optimized, and value driven portfolio of initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with executive leadership to support the development and refinement of organizational strategy.
- Ensure clear linkage between strategy, initiatives, and measurable business outcomes.
- Establish mechanisms to continuously align portfolio execution with evolving strategic priorities.
- Lead strategic planning cycles from a portfolio perspective (initiative shaping, sequencing, and dependencies).
- Define and govern strategic KPIs and value realization frameworks across the portfolio.
- Define and lead the enterprise wide PPM framework, standards, and operating model.
- Translate strategic objectives into a structured and governed project portfolio.
- Establish portfolio segmentation (e.g., strategic, regulatory, operational, innovation).
- Design and enforce a centralized demand intake and approval process.
- Institutionalize project classification standards (project vs. BAU vs. enhancement).
- Establish and govern a standardized prioritization model (value, cost, risk, dependencies).
- Lead portfolio planning cycles and continuous reprioritization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
- Master's degree or MBA with a technology management or digital strategy focus (preferred).
Experience
- 10–15+ years of experience in Project, Program, or Portfolio Management.
- Proven experience in establishing or transforming PPM functions at enterprise level.
- Demonstrated experience developing or contributing to digital transformation strategies and multi year technology roadmaps.
- Proven track record of designing and running portfolio prioritization frameworks in organizations with competing demands and resource constraints.
- Experience in complex, multi stakeholder environments.
- Strong exposure to financial governance, budgeting, and investment planning.
- Experience leading a team or function; not just managing projects, but managing people and building a practice.
Certifications
- PMP — Project Management Professional, PMI or equivalent (required).
- PMI PfMP — Portfolio Management Professional, or PgMP — Program Management Professional (highly preferred; demonstrated willingness to certify is acceptable).
Leadership & Core Competencies
- Strategic thinker; able to hold the long term direction and the immediate decision simultaneously.
- Influential communicator; builds alignment across peers, teams, and leadership through clarity, credibility, and consistency.
- Strong governance design and enforcement capability.
- Advanced financial and analytical skills.
- Decision making under ambiguity.
- Transformation and change leadership.
- Structured problem solving.
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