Head of Program Management Office

Data Analytics Ventures, Inc. | Go Rewards; Pasig; On-site; PHP 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Data Analytics Ventures, Inc. (DAVI) in Manila seeks a senior project management strategist to own the PMO framework and portfolio prioritization.

You will translate strategy into funded, sequenced initiatives, align leadership on risk, and drive measurable outcomes across functions in a fast-moving loyalty and digital platform environment. Partner with the CEO and executive team to design governance, build dashboards, and ensure disciplined execution.

Qualifications

• 8 to 12+ years of experience in project management, strategy execution, business planning, or a chief of staff function with a track record of managing a complex, multi-project portfolio in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong business case and financial modeling capability: able to build, review, and challenge an investment case independently, and hold initiative owners accountable to the assumptions they committed to.
• Experience designing and running project governance frameworks including prioritization methodologies, stage-gate processes, and portfolio reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to work at the leadership level: comfortable presenting trade-offs and recommendations to a CEO, facilitating difficult prioritization conversations, and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong cross-functional coordination instincts: able to identify dependency risks, manage competing priorities across functions, and keep multiple complex projects moving without becoming a bottleneck
• High analytical and structured thinking ability: able to synthesize large amounts of information into a clear portfolio view and communicate it in a way that drives decisions.
• Familiarity with the loyalty, digital, or technology-driven business environment is a strong advantage, particularly understanding how product, technology, data, and commercial functions interact in a platform migration and coalition expansion context.

Responsibilities

• Own company-wide project management practices: define the framework for how projects are proposed, evaluated, prioritized, and approved across all functions
• Lead the annual and quarterly project planning process in partnership with the CEO and CCO, translating strategic priorities into a funded, sequenced roadmap
• Maintain a single, authoritative view of all active, queued, and deferred projects across DAVI including their strategic rationale, resource requirements, dependencies, and expected business outcomes
• Set and enforce the standard for how business cases are built across DAVI including financial modeling, ROI framing, risk assessment, and resource requirements
• Challenge and stress-test initiative proposals before they reach leadership for approval, ensuring decisions are made on evidence, not advocacy
• Track post-implementation value realization against approved business cases and escape where outcomes diverge materially from projections
• Identify and actively manage cross-functional dependencies across initiatives, surfacing conflicts, sequencing risks, and resource constraints before they become delivery problems
• Facilitate project portfolio-level alignment across function heads, ensuring initiative owners understand their interdependencies and shared accountability for outcomes
• Serve as the connective tissue between strategy formulation at leadership level and execution at the functional level
• Design and maintain project portfolio dashboards and reporting rhythms that give leadership a real-time, accurate view of initiative health, milestone progress, and risk status
• Prepare portfolio review materials for the CEO, CCO, and ExCom, structured for decision-making, not just status updates
• Escalate risks and trade-offs proactively, with a clear recommendation, not just a problem statement
• Direct the Business Analyst under this role in producing structured requirements documentation, initiative scoping, and feasibility assessments that meet DAVI's standard for handoff to enabling functions
• Establish and govern the requirements quality bar across the organization, ensuring that initiatives arriving at Product, Technology, and Data teams are sufficiently specified before resources are committed
• Own the process by which business intent is translated into actionable, cross-functional requirements
• Build and evolve the PMO's tools, templates, and processes to match the organization's growing portfolio complexity as coalition expansion and platform migration accelerate
• Identify patterns of project underperformance - recurring delays, scope drift, weak business cases - and drive systemic fixes, not one-off interventions
• Champion a project management culture where initiative ownership, accountability, and outcome orientation are the norm, not the exception

Skills

Project management

Strategy execution

Financial modeling

Stakeholder management

Job description

What can you tell your friends when they ask what you do?

I run the room where DAVI decides what actually gets done. Every team has ideas, every partner has requests, and every Big Rock needs someone to hold the full picture -- what we're building, why we're building it, in what order, and whether it's actually moving the business forward. That's my job. I sit at the intersection of strategy and execution, translating the company's ambitions into a funded, sequenced, and accountable portfolio of projects - and making sure leadership always has a clear, honest view of what's in flight, what's at risk, and what should stop. In a company redesigning itself from a loyalty program into a digital ecosystem, I'm the one making sure we're building the right things, not just building things right.

Responsibilities – How will you do this?

Project Management Strategy and Prioritization

• Own company-wide project management practices: define the framework for how projects are proposed, evaluated, prioritized, and approved across all functions
• Lead the annual and quarterly project planning process in partnership with the CEO and CCO, translating strategic priorities into a funded, sequenced roadmap
• Maintain a single, authoritative view of all active, queued, and deferred projects across DAVI including their strategic rationale, resource requirements, dependencies, and expected business outcomes

Business Case Development and Investment Governance

• Set and enforce the standard for how business cases are built across DAVI including financial modeling, ROI framing, risk assessment, and resource requirements
• Challenge and stress-test initiative proposals before they reach leadership for approval, ensuring decisions are made on evidence, not advocacy
• Track post-implementation value realization against approved business cases and escape where outcomes diverge materially from projections

Cross-Functional Coordination and Dependency Management

• Identify and actively manage cross-functional dependencies across initiatives, surfacing conflicts, sequencing risks, and resource constraints before they become delivery problems
• Facilitate project portfolio-level alignment across function heads, ensuring initiative owners understand their interdependencies and shared accountability for outcomes
• Serve as the connective tissue between strategy formulation at leadership level and execution at the functional level

Portfolio Reporting and Leadership Visibility

• Design and maintain project portfolio dashboards and reporting rhythms that give leadership a real-time, accurate view of initiative health, milestone progress, and risk status
• Prepare portfolio review materials for the CEO, CCO, and ExCom, structured for decision-making, not just status updates
• Escalate risks and trade-offs proactively, with a clear recommendation, not just a problem statement

Business Analysis and Requirements Governance

• Direct the Business Analyst under this role in producing structured requirements documentation, initiative scoping, and feasibility assessments that meet DAVI's standard for handoff to enabling functions
• Establish and govern the requirements quality bar across the organization, ensuring that initiatives arriving at Product, Technology, and Data teams are sufficiently specified before resources are committed
• Own the process by which business intent is translated into actionable, cross-functional requirements

Continuous Improvement and PMO Capability Building

• Build and evolve the PMO's tools, templates, and processes to match the organization's growing portfolio complexity as coalition expansion and platform migration accelerate
• Identify patterns of project underperformance - recurring delays, scope drift, weak business cases - and drive systemic fixes, not one-off interventions
• Champion a project management culture where initiative ownership, accountability, and outcome orientation are the norm, not the exception

To be successful, you’ll need

• 8 to 12+ years of experience in project management, strategy execution, business planning, or a chief of staff function with a track record of managing a complex, multi-project portfolio in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong business case and financial modeling capability: able to build, review, and challenge an investment case independently, and hold initiative owners accountable to the assumptions they committed to.
• Experience designing and running project governance frameworks including prioritization methodologies, stage-gate processes, and portfolio reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to work at the leadership level: comfortable presenting trade-offs and recommendations to a CEO, facilitating difficult prioritization conversations, and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong cross-functional coordination instincts: able to identify dependency risks, manage competing priorities across functions, and keep multiple complex projects moving without becoming a bottleneck
• High analytical and structured thinking ability: able to synthesize large amounts of information into a clear portfolio view and communicate it in a way that drives decisions.
• Familiarity with the loyalty, digital, or technology-driven business environment is a strong advantage, particularly understanding how product, technology, data, and commercial functions interact in a platform migration and coalition expansion context.

Our Core Values

At DAVI, we are guided by three core values:

• Entrepreneurial Mindset – Growth-oriented, customer-focused, and driven to innovate.
• Stewardship – Takes ownership, protects resources, and promotes sustainable decisions.
• Integrity – Acts with honesty, fairness, and a commitment to doing what is right.

About Data Analytics Ventures Inc. (DAVI)

Data Analytics Ventures, Inc. (DAVI) is the Gokongwei Group's loyalty and data analytics company. Aside from managing Go Rewards, the loyalty program of the Gokongwei Group which includes Cebu Pacific, GoTyme and Robinsons Retail Holdings, DAVI also plays a pivotal role in driving consumer insights through data science. This combination enables DAVI to create a loyalty program that delivers on rewarding experiences and harnessing data to fuel business growth.

At DAVI, data is the key to identifying customer patterns and insights. More than just crunching numbers amidst evolving market landscapes, the company aims for meaningful engagement and sustainable growth that will accelerate discovery and action for businesses.

DAVI helps businesses get a deeper understanding of their brand and category performance. The company's insights help businesses to determine growth drivers and opportunities, improve decisions and calibrate business objectives and actions.

DAVI advocates a culture of excellence and teamwork. Everyone is expected to be the very best at what they do and serve as mentors to their colleagues. We believe in building a trusted environment that encourages open dialogue and constructive conflict, where individuals are humble and hungry to learn from each other. We expect excellence of ourselves and others and together, we make excellence contagious.

DAVI offers its employees the chance to be part of the wave of the future as the data industry continues to evolve rapidly. They are empowered to chart the trajectory of their career and have access to programs that help them continuously upskill. As such, the company seeks people who are passionate about uncovering the value and opportunities behind data.

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