IT PMO Section Manager

About the Role

alfanar is seeking an IT PMO, Section Manager to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time position is responsible for overseeing project portfolio and PMO activities within the Support Services Division. The role ensures effective governance, alignment with business objectives, and successful project delivery, requiring 5-10 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 follow approved practices.
• Monitor compliance with governance, approvals, documentation, and reporting requirements, and improve PMO processes, tools, and controls.
• Monitor project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, issues, and overall health, reviewing significant changes and corrective action plans.
• Conduct project reviews and assurance activities, providing guidance to project managers and supporting the resolution of delivery challenges.
• 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, supporting 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, monitor performance, and develop team capabilities through coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Monitor the PMO budget, ensure efficient use of resources, and promote accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Leadership and Management Accountability

• 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 based on performance and results, and maintain a delegation of authority matrix as per company policy.
• Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and deliverables, anticipating problems and taking proactive steps to prevent them.
• Make necessary and timely decisions to deliver required results with quality and cost efficiency.

Business Planning and Performance

• Transform corporate goals into annual and development business plans, and monitor their execution and performance.
• Initiate actions to strengthen results and take corrective measures as needed, providing periodic work progress reports.
• Monitor and control budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational and Process Development

• 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.
• Be conversant with and able to navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business, promoting the full use of automated systems.

Quality and Adaptation

• Uphold quality as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage, acting accordingly in all operations.
• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.