PMO Manager

About the Role

* Naghi Motors is seeking a PMO Manager to lead strategic, transformation, and operational initiatives within the Automotive PMO Office. This full-time position is based in Jeddah, Makkah, and requires an individual focused on driving change, addressing business challenges, and delivering measurable value. The role involves leading cross-functional projects within the automotive business, combining project management discipline with strong business acumen.

Role Responsibilities

The PMO Manager will be responsible for understanding business challenges, structuring initiatives, aligning stakeholders, and translating requirements into executable plans. This includes working closely with business owners to assess current operations, identify improvement opportunities, and support solution development through to implementation.

• Define business problems, objectives, requirements, and expected outcomes with business owners.
• Assess current processes and operating models to identify gaps, improvement opportunities, and transformation needs.
• Support the development of business cases, solution options, requirements, and recommendations.
• Translate business requirements into structured initiatives, deliverables, workstreams, and implementation plans.
• Challenge assumptions to ensure proposed solutions address underlying business needs.
• Support the implementation, adoption, and transition of new processes, systems, or operating models.

Project Management and Execution

This role involves comprehensive project management, from planning to execution and handover, ensuring projects meet objectives and expected business outcomes.

• Develop and manage project scope, plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Establish project governance, stakeholder structures, and communication plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and drive actions to completion.
• Manage project risks, issues, changes, and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation.
• Track delivery against agreed objectives and expected business outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement

The PMO Manager will facilitate collaboration and communication across various departments to ensure project alignment and successful integration into business operations.

• Partner with business owners and functional teams across the organization.
• Facilitate workshops to drive decisions, resolve issues, and establish cross-functional alignment.
• Communicate effectively with senior and executive stakeholders.
• Ensure project deliverables are successfully transitioned into business-as-usual operations.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess a combination of project delivery capability, business understanding, analytical thinking, and stakeholder management skills, with knowledge of automotive operations.

• 2-5 years of experience in project management or a related field.
• Sufficient knowledge of automotive operations to work effectively across functions such as Sales, Aftersales, Network, Customer Experience, Finance, IT, and Operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategic, transformation, business improvement, and operational projects.