Head of IT PMO

Fly Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Fly Dubai is seeking an accomplished IT Portfolio Manager to lead the IT PMO, overseeing planning, budgeting, governance, and delivery across the IT portfolio. You will ensure strategic alignment, optimize resources, and provide executive visibility into value delivery.

You will partner with business and IT leadership to prioritise investments, track benefits, and drive continuous improvement in PMO processes, data analytics, and governance tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in IT or Engineering; MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT PMO and oversee planning, budgeting, governance, and delivery across the IT portfolio.
• Maintain portfolio health, drive prioritization and resource optimization.
• Provide senior leadership with concise portfolio insights and recommendations.

Skills

Fluent in English

IT portfolio management

Strategic partnerships

Workforce planning

Six Sigma

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT or Engineering

Job description

MAIN OBJECTIVE OF ROLE

To lead the IT PMO and oversee the IT portfolio across planning budgeting governance delivery and performance ensuring technology investments are strategically aligned effectively prioritized and successfully delivered while maintaining portfolio health resource optimization investment governance and executive visibility to maximize business value from IT investments

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports annual IT planning demand consolidation portfolio prioritization CAPEX OPEX budgeting and investment allocation recommendations
• Establishes PMO standards governance and delivery methodologies ensuring projects are managed against approved scope budget timelines and outcomes
• Maintains clear visibility of portfolio health including delivery financials risks dependencies and key constraints driving timely intervention and escalation
• Reviews business cases investment prioritization and CAPEX approval submissions ensuring strategic alignment financial justification and value
• Oversees resource demand capacity and allocation across projects and IT Lines of Business optimizing internal and external resources against portfolio priorities
• Governs the IT Change Request CR portfolio ensuring changes are assessed prioritized resourced funded and tracked through delivery
• Supports IT Vendor Management function in collaboration with Procurement overseeing vendor performance commercial management contracts and renewals and external resource requirements across the project lifecycle
• Oversees portfolio-level risks issues and cross-project dependencies ensuring effective mitigation resolution and escalationReviews portfolio performance and benefits to drive reprioritisation resource or funding reallocation re-scoping or closure where required
• Provides senior leadership with concise portfolio insights forward-looking risks and recommendations to support timely decision making
• Enhances PMO processes tools and capabilities leveraging data automation and emerging technologies to improve governance efficiency and decision-making

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree (3+ years) Specialization in IT or Engineering.MBA preferred.
• Fluent in English Experience in managing large IT portfolio projects.
• Experience in developing strategic partnerships.
• Experience in workforce planning and management for large IT organization.
• Years with qualifications: 10 - 12 years PMI / ITIL certification.
• SIX Sigma accreditation an advantage.

COMPETENCIES

• Customer Focus
• Teamwork
• Effective Communication
• Personal Accountability & Commitment to achieve
• Resilience & Flexibility (Can do attitude)
• Decision Making
• Inspiring & Developing Others
• Strategic Thinking
• Business Acumen

ISR REQUIREMENTS

Reads and complies with the ISR policies of the Company and diligently reports any weakness or incidents to the respective Line Manager or the Information Security team. Completes all required ISR awareness sessions and follows associated guidelines in the day-to-day business operations.