Senior Project Manager: PMO & Portfolio Delivery Lead

Farah Experiences LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Masarra DMC seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead governance, business analysis, planning, coordination, and delivery of strategic initiatives. You will work with stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and sponsors to define requirements and ensure successful delivery from initiation through closure.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least seven years of project management experience in complex environments; PMP/PRINCE2 is desirable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, business administration, or related field.
• Minimum seven years' experience managing projects or programmes within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional project teams and managing project budgets.
• Experience establishing or improving PMO functions.
• Strong PMO governance, demand management, prioritisation, portfolio reporting, and budget/resource tracking.
• Experience in business requirements gathering, process mapping, gap analysis, stakeholder workshops, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Previous experience in tourism, hospitality, destination management, or a related sector.
• Desirable Master's degree in project management, business management, or related discipline.
• Professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile (Desirable).

Responsibilities

• Lead PMO governance and portfolio management activities, ensuring standards, templates, and tools are applied.
• Oversee demand intake, prioritisation based on business value, cost, capacity, risks, and dependencies.
• Maintain portfolio visibility with status, milestones, budgets, resources, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate budget forecasting, resource planning, and capacity tracking across the portfolio.
• Lead stakeholder workshops and coordinate cross-functional teams across business, technology, finance, procurement, operations, and vendors.
• Manage UAT, test scenarios, defect resolution, retesting, and sign-off.
• Define project scope, plans, milestones, budgets, resources, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Coordinate testing, implementation readiness, cutover, transition to operations, and project closure.
• Document lessons learned and ensure outstanding actions are tracked.

Skills

PMO governance

Portfolio management

Budget tracking

Stakeholder management

Business analysis

Vendor management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

UAT coordination

Delivery methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in PM / Business / related field

Master's degree in PM / Business (Desirable)

Job description

Masarra DMC seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead governance, business analysis, planning, coordination, and delivery of strategic initiatives. You will work with stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and sponsors to define requirements and ensure successful delivery from initiation through closure.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least seven years of project management experience in complex environments; PMP/PRINCE2 is desirable.