Senior PMO Lead

APM Terminals; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

APM Terminals in The Hague seeks a Senior PMO to maintain and elevate the Project Management Framework across global port- terminal projects. You will provide PMO support, assurance, and challenge to project teams and senior stakeholders while strengthening governance, controls, and reporting.

The role requires extensive experience in PMO/controls, strong MS365 skills and knowledge of PMWeb/Aconex/Primavera Cloud, excellent English, and willingness to travel 15-25% globally.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in PMO/Project Controls roles.
• Strong knowledge of governance, stage-gate reviews, reporting, and document management.
• Proven experience developing, improving, and implementing project management frameworks and assurance practices.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the PMO framework, templates, tools, and best practices.
• Provide PMO guidance to project teams, Heads of Portfolio, and senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate project reporting, governance routines, and stage-gate reviews.
• Support project controls across schedule, cost, scope, risk, change, reporting, and baselines.
• Review interfaces between business readiness, asset delivery, operations and workstreams.
• Plan and facilitate workshops with clear objectives and outputs.
• Support onboarding and capability building for PMO standards and controls.
• Maintain a structured repository for PM standards, templates, and lessons learned.
• Ensure structured document management across functions and teams.
• Apply the PMMaturity assessment methodology consistently.

Skills

MS365 & Copilot

Project governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Facilitation

Leadership

Travel readiness

Education

PM qualifications (PMI/PRINCE2/APM PMQ)

Tools

PMWeb

Aconex

Oracle Primavera Cloud

Job description

APM Terminals At APM Terminals, a global leader in port and terminal operations, we enable global trade and drive sustainable growth. What drives us forward is a mindset of always improving - observing how work happens, identifying what creates value, and removing what gets in the way. We constantly look for smarter, simpler, and safer ways of operating. If you thrive in environments where people value learning and are committed to continuously improve daily operations, join us and be a part of our journey. As a Senior PMO, you will support, maintain, and continuously improve the APM Terminals Project Management Framework across our global Business Implementation Management portfolio. Based in The Hague, you will provide PMO support, assurance, and constructive challenge to project teams, Heads of Portfolio, and senior stakeholders. You will help strengthen project governance, project controls, reporting, documentation, and the consistent application of project management standards across major greenfield and brownfield implementation projects.

What We Can Offer

At APMT Terminals, we foster a dynamic learning and training culture that empowers our employees to excel. Our commitment to improvement is driven by Lean principles, ensuring that every team member has the opportunity to develop their skills and advance their careers. Experience a diverse, multinational workplace where your operational insights directly influence how we work. Support consistent project management standards across a global portfolio of major terminal implementation projects. Work with project leadership and senior stakeholders to strengthen governance, assurance, and delivery discipline. Contribute to continuous improvement, capability building, and the sharing of lessons learned across Business Implementation Management. Gain exposure to global capital projects, senior governance forums, project assurance activities, and project controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and continuously improve the APM Terminals Project Management Framework, including processes, standards, templates, tools, and best practices.
• Provide PMO guidance and constructive challenge to project teams, Heads of Portfolio, and senior stakeholders to improve project delivery discipline and decision quality.
• Coordinate project reporting, governance routines, and stage-gate reviews, ensuring performance information is clear, reliable, and decision-focused.
• Support the implementation and assurance of project controls across schedule, cost, scope, risk, change, reporting, and baseline planning.
• Review key interfaces between business readiness, asset delivery, operations, and functional workstreams, supporting practical plans to address gaps and risks.
• Plan and facilitate workshops with clear objectives, strong stakeholder engagement, and tangible outputs.
• Support onboarding, training, and capability building for project teams on PMO standards, project management processes, and project controls.
• Maintain a structured repository for PM standards, templates, and lessons learned, ensuring project learning supports continuous improvement.
• Ensure structured document management practices are implemented and adopted across Business Implementation Management functions and project teams.
• Ensure the APMT Project Management Maturity Assessment methodology, criteria, scoring logic, and acceptance rules are consistently applied across projects.
• Provide guidance on value drivers and KPIs linked to project requirements and benefit realisation, ensuring they are measurable and integrated into reporting and decision-making.

What We Are Looking For

• Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindset - curious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful, sustainable improvements over time.
• Leadership expectation: We are looking for people who consistently puts customers first, leads by example with respect for people, delivers results with integrity, and drives continuous improvement by solving problems at the root, developing people, and raising standards every day.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in project management, PMO, and/or project controls roles, preferably in major civil infrastructure, ports, terminals, maritime infrastructure, transport, energy, utilities, or other capital-intensive sectors.
• Strong knowledge of project management processes, governance, stage-gate reviews, reporting, document management, and project controls.
• Proven experience developing, improving, and implementing project management frameworks, standards, templates, tools, and project assurance practices.
• Broad experience across planning and scheduling, cost management, risk management, change management, stakeholder management, and document management.
• Strong MS365 skills, including Copilot, with experience using project management, project controls, reporting, and document management systems such as PMWeb, Aconex, or Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Project management qualifications such as PMI, PRINCE2, APM PMQ, or equivalent are preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with additional languages considered an advantage.
• Ability and willingness to travel globally to support projects, with an expected travel requirement of approximately 15-25% of your time.

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A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world.