AVP, Project Governance & Commercialization
Role Overview
Lead governance and commercialization for the PWBB & PCBG transformation agenda, ensuring initiatives are prioritized, governed, and translated into measurable business value.
Establish portfolio controls, strengthen executive decision-making, and drive benefits realization through planning, stakeholder alignment, and commercialization.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
Role overview
Lead governance and commercialization for the PWBB & PCBG transformation agenda, ensuring initiatives are prioritized, governed, and translated into measurable business value.
Establish portfolio controls, strengthen executive decision-making, and drive benefits realization through planning, stakeholder alignment, and commercialization.
Key responsibilities
- Own portfolio intake, prioritization, stage gates, decision rights, escalations, and closure criteria.
- Maintain integrated portfolio information covering scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, benefits, and resources.
- Run governance forums with agendas, decision papers, action logs, follow-through, and timely escalation.
- Develop business cases and commercialization plans that set out customer impact, strategic alignment, financial value, implementation requirements, and measurable outcomes.
- Validate initiative economics and benefits with Finance and business owners, track realization, and address gaps against commitments.
- Prioritize initiatives based on strategic value, customer impact, regulatory urgency, feasibility, risk, and return.
- Coordinate across business and enabling functions to resolve dependencies and accelerate delivery.
- Report progress, value delivered, material variances, and interventions to transformation leadership and governance forums.
Requirements and qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Technology, or a related discipline.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience in transformation, strategy, portfolio governance, program management, business planning, consulting, or commercialization.
- Banking or financial services experience is preferred.
- Experience managing complex cross-functional portfolios, executive governance, business cases, financial tracking, and benefits realization.
- Strong command of portfolio governance, program management, risk and issue management, financial analysis, and benefits realization.
- Ability to produce clear executive insights, decision papers, and concise management reporting.
Preferred qualifications and skills
- A postgraduate qualification and/or recognized project, program, or portfolio management certification is desirable.
- Arabic is an advantage.
- Portfolio reporting and visualization tools experience is desirable.
About FAB
First Abu Dhabi Bank describes itself as the UAE’s largest bank and a major international financial institution.
The employer describes a customer-focused culture, career development and training opportunities, and a commitment to innovation.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at bankfab
VP, Credit - Digitization & AI Portfolio Management
, UAE
First Abu Dhabi Bank is seeking a senior credit professional to coordinate digitization and AI initiatives across Personal Banking Credit. The role sets roadmaps, delivers projects, and applies portfolio analytics and AI
VP, Graduate Resourcing
, UAE
First Abu Dhabi Bank is seeking an executive leader to set strategy and oversee graduate resourcing, programs, and UAE National graduate talent outcomes. The role requires a bachelor's degree in HR or a related disciplin
Specialist, Mortgage Coordinator
, UAE
First Abu Dhabi Bank is seeking a mortgage coordinator to manage broker invoice and evaluation processing, maintain case and pipeline trackers, and prepare management reporting. The role requires a finance or banking-rel
Specialist, UAEN Development
, UAE
The employer is seeking a learning and development specialist to support development programs for UAE Nationals and deliver initiatives aligned with the Emiratization strategy. The role covers training design and deliver
Specialist, GTx Business Intelligence and Planning
, UAE
The employer is seeking a specialist to analyze Global Transaction Banking performance and produce management information, reports, and dashboards. The role also supports business planning, reporting improvements, and st
VP, KYC & Onboarding - Business Banking
, UAE
The bank is seeking a KYC and onboarding leader to oversee end-to-end client approvals, reviews, risk assessment, and team delivery. Candidates need 8–10 years in banking, at least five years in regulatory or financial c
Specialist, Compliance - Governance & Risk Assessment (Emiratized)
, UAE
FAB is seeking a compliance specialist to support Group-wide governance frameworks, control-document lifecycle, and enterprise compliance risk assessments. Candidates should have 1–3 years of relevant experience or be a
AVP, Islamic Coverage - Investment & Corporate Banking (Emiratized)
, UAE
First Abu Dhabi Bank is seeking an experienced Islamic Coverage professional to acquire corporate and investment banking clients and deliver Shariah-compliant financial solutions. The role requires a bachelor's degree in
VP, Credit - Digitization & AI Portfolio Management
, UAE
VP, Graduate Resourcing
, UAE
Specialist, Mortgage Coordinator
, UAE
Specialist, UAEN Development
, UAE
Specialist, GTx Business Intelligence and Planning
, UAE
VP, KYC & Onboarding - Business Banking
, UAE
Specialist, Compliance - Governance & Risk Assessment (Emiratized)
, UAE
AVP, Islamic Coverage - Investment & Corporate Banking (Emiratized)
, UAE