Senior PMO Manager

Overview

Senior Pmo Manager

Dubai

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and operate the Enterprise PMO, establishing and maintaining governance frameworks, standards, and controls.
• Maintain oversight of the portfolio, providing structure, visibility, and coordination across programmes, projects, initiatives, and enablers.
• Provide independent delivery assurance, identifying risks, dependencies, and delivery issues and ensuring timely escalation and resolution.
• Execute agreed governance processes, including stage-gates, approvals, RAID management, and reporting in line with enterprise standards
• Support prioritisation and sequencing of initiatives through structured analysis, capacity planning, and portfolio insights.
• Track portfolio financial performance against approved budgets and forecasts, highlighting variances and risks to senior stakeholders. Support benefits realisation by tracking outcomes and benefits delivery against agreed targets, and highlighting variances to accountable sponsors
• Support benefits realisation by tracking delivery of agreed outcomes and providing visibility of progress and risks.
• Produce clear, accurate, and timely reporting for senior leadership, steering committees, and governance forums.
• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders by enabling effective governance forums, decision-making, and issue resolution. Enable alignment across stakeholders by facilitating governance forums, decision-making, and issue resolution.
• Lead and develop the PMO team, ensuring consistent standards, capability development, and performance.
• Lead assigned programmes of work where confidentiality of complexity requires direct engagement.
• Support the application of appropriate delivery approaches (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) aligned to enterprise standards.
• Drive continuous improvement of PMO capability, tools, data quality, and reporting maturity.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Technology, or related discipline
• Postgraduate qualification (MBA or equivalent) preferred
• Professional certification such as PMP and/or Six Sigma (Green Belt or above) desirable
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in PMO, portfolio management, or transformation roles
• Proven experience operating enterprise PMOs within complex, matrixed organisations
• Strong experience supporting executive governance, reporting, and assuranceEnterprise portfolio and programme governance frameworks
• Financial tracking, benefits tracking, and portfolio reporting
• Advanced analytical and reporting skills (Excel, Power BI)
• Experience with PPM and delivery tools (e.g. ServiceNow, Asana, Jira, MS Project)
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder facilitation skills
• Highly structured, analytical, and detail-oriented
• Sound judgement with confidence to escalate risks and issues
• Collaborative leadership style with resilience under pressure