Senior PMO Lead — Global Project Delivery & Controls

Maersk; 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 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.