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, Riyadh. 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.

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 practices and requirements.
• Monitor compliance with governance, approvals, documentation, and reporting requirements, and improve PMO processes based on business needs and lessons learned.
• Monitor project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, 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 and dashboards, 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 project portfolio, supporting project initiation and business-case development.
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of project vendors, 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 and continuous improvement.

Accountabilities and Expectations

• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to create a robust second line of management, while guiding low performers or managing their release.
• Ensure fair treatment of subordinates, 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, take proactive steps to prevent them, and make 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, execute and monitor these plans, and initiate corrective actions as needed.
• Provide periodic work progress reports and manage 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 systems, policies, and procedures, seeking automation opportunities and promoting the use of IT solutions relevant to the job.
• Uphold quality as a prime competitive advantage for Alfanar.
• Adapt to new techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment in accordance with standard regulations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, within a professional and dynamic work setting at Alfanar.