Manager Value Management Portfolio

Job Purpose

Manage the Value Management Portfolio under the direction of the VP Value Management Office by leading portfolio governance, business case assurance, benefits realization tracking, KPI integration, and cross-functional optimization initiatives across the Group. The role is responsible for ensuring that value initiatives are prioritized, governed, and tracked through robust financial and performance management disciplines to deliver measurable CAPEX and OPEX optimization, productivity improvement, working capital enhancement, and sustainable value creation aligned with corporate strategy.

• Lead the governance and prioritization of the Value Management Portfolio to ensure initiatives are aligned with corporate strategy, value impact, affordability, and capital efficiency objectives.
• Review, challenge, and validate business cases, financial assumptions, baselines, cost‐benefit models, and sensitivity analyses to ensure rigor, transparency, and decision‑quality.
• Oversee benefits realization tracking across the portfolio, ensuring identified, approved, and realized value is clearly defined, monitored, and reconciled with financial outcomes where applicable.
• Establish and maintain standardized portfolio governance frameworks, value tracking methodologies, approval gates, and savings validation protocols to ensure consistency, compliance, and auditability.
• Drive integration of value‑based KPIs into corporate and divisional scorecards, performance reviews, and management reporting processes.
• Lead structured cross‑functional optimization programs covering areas such as procurement efficiency, workforce productivity, digital value realization, shared services transformation, and cost‑to‑serve improvement.
• Provide portfolio‑level oversight of CAPEX and OPEX optimization initiatives to ensure measurable returns, disciplined execution, and timely escalation of risks and deviations.
• Oversee development and continuous improvement of portfolio reporting, dashboards, and validation tools to ensure accurate, complete, and timely management information for decision‑making.
• Coordinate with Group Companies, Finance, Strategy, and other stakeholders to align methodologies, baselines, reporting definitions, and value realization expectations.
• Support the VP Value Management Office in driving governance reviews, assurance activities, stakeholder engagement, continuous improvement, and organizational adoption of value management practices across the Group.

• Plan and supervise the activities of the personnel and resources of the Department to achieve the Division objectives in an efficient and cost‑conscious manner while ensuring implementation of approved operational plans for the Department in line with Division objectives.
• Develop the knowledge, competencies and innovative spirit in the Department and support the establishment of Personal Development Plans (PDP’s), Succession Planning and Talent pipeline within the Department in coordination with the Human Capability Group to continuously develop employees with emphasis on UAE Nationals to meet Emiratization targets.
• Compile and provide input for preparation of the Division budgets and regularly monitor expenditure against approved the Department budget levels.
• Investigate, highlight and reconcile any significant variances to ensure effective performance and cost control.
• Lead the implementation of approved Department policies, processes, systems, standards, procedures and internal controls in order to support execution of the Division work programs in line with Company and International standards.
• Implement the Company Performance Management System for individuals within the Department in accordance with Company approved guidelines and continuously monitor the achievement of the Department KPIs related to the approved Annual Performance Management Contract and the Balanced Score Card.
• Review, develop and recommend the appropriate organisation structure for the Department that will best utilise human capital while proactively incorporating sustainability into the on‑going work practices to meet the business objectives.
• Encourag…