Senior Associate - PMO

Aldar Properties PJSC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Aldar Properties PJSC in Abu Dhabi invites an experienced PMO professional to drive the EPMO strategy, establish project management standards, and lead cross-functional initiatives from ideation through delivery.

You will manage a PMO team, align initiatives with corporate goals, oversee risk, quality, and reporting, and collaborate with business owners and strategy teams on high-impact programs.

Qualifications

• Min of 4+ years of experience in Project Management Office Role.
• Experience of managing the complete lifecycle of a project with project teams of 5 to 25 people.
• Experience in PMO within Real Estate or holding group environments.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end process of identification, development, prioritization and implementation of high-impact projects.
• Establish frameworks for initiatives, including methodologies, tools, and organizational structures.
• Prioritize initiatives and ensure alignment with corporate strategy.
• Define key steps and milestones for implementing initiatives with Business Owners.
• Identify interdependencies and manage risks and escalations at all levels.
• Report progress, achievements, interdependencies, risks and challenges to Management.
• Manage EPMO manpower, planning and allocation for initiatives.
• Set up task priorities and maintain the initiative ecosystem structure.
• Provide support to business owners and sponsors to uplift project plans and artifacts.
• Review quality, performance reports and perform QA on initiative outputs.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership Skills

Strategic Planning

Research and Analysis

AI prompting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Management

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

• Drive successful implementation of the EPMO team’s strategy, services and deliverables
• Establish frameworks and standards for Project and Program Management
• Support delivery and monitoring of ad hoc strategic and special projects

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the end-to-end process of the identification, development, prioritization and implementation of the highest impact / most strategic projects and programs in the organization
• Establish frameworks to manage initiatives, including methodologies, tools, and organizational structures
• Prioritize initiatives for implementation and ensure alignment with the strategy
• Determine key steps and milestones for implementing initiatives in coordination with the Business Owners
• Identify the interdependencies between initiatives, and manage risks and escalation on the singular and aggregate levels
• Report project progress, achievements interdependencies, risks and challenges to Management
• Manage the assigned EPMO manpower to the initiatives and conduct regular manpower planning and allocation
• Set up priorities to tasks and categorize them according to previously set standards
• Maintain the organizational structure and roles within the initiative's ecosystem
• Provide support to the business owners and sponsors in uplifting the quality of project plans and other project & initiative artifacts
• Review quality, performance reports and perform Quality Assurance on all initiative's deliverables/outputs
• Manage and monitoring change requests and ensure that they adhere to the approved policies
• Define the training needs of the initiative teams, recommend the necessary training courses, and monitor the effectiveness and results of these courses
• Support in the delivery and monitoring of ad hoc strategic and special business projects
• Conduct research, analysis and other strategic activities in collaboration with the Strategy team as required by the business from time to time

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

RELATED YEAR OF EXPERIENCE:

• Min of 4+ years of experience in Project Management Office Role
• Experience of managing the complete lifecycle of a project with project teams of 5 to 25 people

FIELD OF EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in managing PMO the Real Estate sector or corporate departments in a holding strucuture
• Led implementations from ideation to post closing of initiatives in discplines such as CX, Procurement, HR, Marketing, Data, Innovation and Process Improvement

TECHNICAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• Project Management
• Leadership Skills
• Strategic Planning
• Research and Analysis
• A.I. prompting and document production skills are highly advantageous

QUALIFICATION

Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or other relevant fields