PMO Governance & Portfolio Management Section Manager

About the Role

Alfanar is seeking a PMO Governance & Portfolio Management Section Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves overseeing project portfolio and PMO activities within the Support Services Division, ensuring effective governance, alignment with business objectives, and successful project delivery. The position requires 6-10 years of relevant experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the assigned portfolio of projects and monitor overall performance, ensuring alignment with approved objectives, priorities, and business plans.
• Support project evaluation, prioritization, sequencing, and benefits realization, while identifying portfolio-level dependencies, constraints, risks, and opportunities.
• Establish and maintain PMO governance, methodologies, standards, and templates, ensuring project teams adhere to approved project management practices.
• Monitor compliance with governance, approvals, documentation, and reporting requirements, and improve PMO processes, tools, and controls based on business needs.
• Monitor project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, issues, and overall health, reviewing significant project changes and corrective action plans.
• Conduct project reviews and assurance activities to identify performance concerns and provide guidance to project managers.
• Consolidate project information into portfolio reports, dashboards, and performance analyses, providing management with insights and recommendations.
• Support governance and project review meetings, tracking management decisions and ensuring assigned actions are followed through to closure.
• Monitor resource allocation, demand, and capacity across the assigned project portfolio, and support project initiation and business-case development.
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of project vendors and service providers, monitoring their performance against contractual requirements.
• Manage PMO team activities, assign responsibilities, and monitor performance, setting objectives and translating business goals into operational plans.
• Develop team capabilities through coaching, feedback, and knowledge sharing, monitoring the PMO budget and promoting accountability and continuous improvement.

Role Accountabilities

• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to create a robust second line of management, and guide low performers for improvement or release.
• Ensure fair treatment of subordinates without discrimination, with performance as the primary assessment criterion.
• Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and deliverables, adhering to company guidelines.
• Anticipate problems and take proactive steps to prevent them, making necessary and timely decisions.
• Deliver required results in a timely manner with specified quality and cost, making a tangible difference and exceeding business expectations.
• Transform corporate goals into business plans, then plan, follow up, and execute these plans, monitoring performance and initiating corrective actions.
• Provide periodic work progress reports and monitor/control budgets and expenses for optimum cost efficiency.
• Develop the organizational structure according to current and future requirements, ensuring job descriptions are available for all roles.
• Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures, seeking automation opportunities and promoting the use of IT solutions relevant to the job.
• Uphold quality as Alfanar’s prime competitive advantage and adapt to new techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.

Qualifications and Experience

• 6-10 years of experience in PMO governance and portfolio management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project portfolios and ensure strategic alignment.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining PMO methodologies and standards.
• Proficiency in project oversight, control, and reporting.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.