Group PMO Manager

The Group PMO Manager is responsible for establishing, implementing, and maintaining a unified Project Management Office across all clusters and business units. This is a critical governance role that ensures project and initiative portfolio visibility, risk management, budget integrity, and executive-level reporting across a complex, multi-cluster organization. The PMO Manager works directly with the CEO and is accountable for creating a single source of truth for all active projects, M&A initiatives, and strategic programs.

This role is NOT an operational project management position. It is a strategic governance function focused on portfolio health, variance tracking, risk escalation, and ensuring that every project tracked through the PMO meets the organization's standards for data integrity and transparency.

• Portfolio Governance & Unified Tracking Design, build, and operate a unified PMO tracker consolidating all active projects, programs, M&A initiatives, and strategic work streams across all five clusters.
• Establish and enforce standardized project taxonomy, status definitions, and reporting formats across all business units.
• Create and maintain domain-specific PMO templates (construction, M&A, technology, healthcare, real estate) that feed into the portfolio view.
• Ensure all tracked projects meet governance and data-integrity standards suitable for board reporting and market disclosure.
• Metrics, Variance & Risk Management Track and report monthly on all projects: budget vs. forecast vs. actual; schedule variance; cost variance; completion percentage; and health status.
• Identify and elevate variances above thresholds (>5% cost overrun, >10 days schedule slip) to cluster heads and the CEO.
• Maintain a consolidated risk register; prioritize and track top risks by impact and mitigation status.
• Provide monthly variance analysis and trend reporting with root-cause narrative.
• Executive Reporting & Board Readiness Produce monthly executive dashboard suitable for CEO and board review.
• Generate quarterly board-pack materials with project status, financial impact, and strategic implications.
• Ensure all metrics, claims, and numbers reported are verified, traceable, and defensible.
• Prepare management commentary on portfolio performance and recommendations for board discussion.
• Stakeholder Management & PMO Operations Coordinate with cluster heads, project managers, and finance teams on defined monthly cadence.
• Conduct monthly PMO forum; review portfolio health and elevate blockers.
• Build and maintain PMO tools: spreadsheets, dashboards, reporting templates.
• Train cluster teams on PMO processes, data standards, and submission timelines.
• Act as single point of contact for PMO queries from CEO, board, and external stakeholders.
• Data Integrity & Governance Compliance Never fabricate or estimate metrics. Validate all numbers against source documents.
• Maintain audit trail and version control on all PMO reports and dashboards.
• Identify and remediate data gaps; elevate ambiguities rather than filling with assumptions.
• Support external audits and regulatory reviews with complete documentation.

• Bachelor's degree in project management, business administration, engineering, finance, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of PMO experience in multi-cluster, multi-geography, or multi-billion-dollar portfolio environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in portfolio management, project governance, and executive reporting in a publicly listed company.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, scenario modeling) and Power Point.
• Proven ability to design and implement PMO standards and templates that scale across diverse business units.
• Strong financial acumen: budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, project cost management.
• Meticulous attention to detail. Obsessive about data accuracy and governance compliance.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Fluency in English.
• Arabic language skills.

S'hail Shipping and Maritime Services - Qatar, Doha