Transformation Assurance Manager

Role overview

Assurance responsibilities

• Validate milestones and deliverables against evidence and monitor cross-initiative dependencies and risks.
• Assess readiness across people, processes, systems, and data; track benefits and escalate deviations early.
• Challenge initiative owners and programme leads constructively using evidence and recommendations.
• Prepare assurance reports and management packs, contribute to transformation forums, and maintain consistent governed status reporting.
• Use dashboards and governed data to monitor progress and support decisions.
• Apply AI-assisted tools to track evidence, analyse issues, and improve assurance efficiency and accuracy.

Experience and qualifications

• Require 10+ years in programme management, PMO, transformation, or assurance, with direct responsibility for complex change delivery or assurance.
• Require knowledge of stage-gate reviews, milestone tracking, benefits realisation, business readiness, change management, PMO practices, and business adoption.
• Require ability to assess progress independently, identify gaps, and challenge status with evidence.
• Candidates must be able to explain a transformation initiative they personally delivered or assured, including challenges and resulting improvements or decisions.
• Require strong analytical, reporting, and stakeholder management skills, and comfort working with dashboards, governed data, and technical teams.
• Construction, real estate, infrastructure, or multi-entity organisation experience is preferred; Gulf or wider MENA experience is an advantage.

Essential AI fluency

• Practical use of AI as a core working tool is mandatory; candidates must provide specific professional examples.
• Examples include verifying reported progress against documents, identifying risks or readiness issues from project information, and preparing reports with findings checked against original sources.