Manager, Portfolio and Projects

Grab PH; Pasig; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits program

Parental and Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab PH seeks a seasoned PMO Lead to manage business intake, prioritization, and governance for a dynamic portfolio. You will align with Planning & Insight leadership to ensure projects optimize operations and deliver value, across in-house and vendor teams.

In this role, you will drive capacity planning, OKR tracking, and cross-functional collaboration, enabling cost efficiency, improved customer outcomes, and scalable digital initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of program or portfolio management experience in Contact Center Operations, Shared Services, or Tech Platforms.
• 3+ years of experience with core contact center and support metrics (SLA, cost, quality, volume).
• PMP or Lean Six Sigma certification is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary gatekeeper for all incoming project requests and assess feasibility and alignment.
• Oversee end-to-end PMO governance for the country's tactical operational projects.
• Monitor capacity and OKR impact, ensuring projects meet efficiency, cost, service, and satisfaction targets.
• Mentor the Prioritization & Intake Lead and align with the Head of Planning & Business Insight.

Skills

PMO leadership

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Team leadership

Education

PMP or Lean Six Sigma certification (advantage)

Job description

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Grab Support (GS) PH team values collaboration and a customer-centric approach in delivering world-class experience to our consumers and partners. Our focus is on continuous improvement, driven by a commitment to business process optimization, digital innovation, and strategic vendor management. We are responsible for ensuring our operations are efficient, scalable, and resilient, empowering our support agents to deliver exceptional experiences in every Grab journey.

Get to Know the Role

You will be the country's central PMO lead, managing business request intake, demand prioritization, and operational understanding. You will run the Plans & Priorities PMO. You will oversee a dynamic portfolio of projects, including short-to-medium-term projects aimed at operational optimization, cost efficiency, customer satisfaction enhancement, and digital migration. Working with the Planning & Insight Head , you will evaluate incoming business requests, manages resource capacity, and maintain high-level governance across all active projects.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

1. Strategic Business Intake & Triage

• Be the primary decision-maker and gatekeeper for all incoming project requests from local Business Units and functional stakeholders.
• Evaluate project proposals for operational feasibility, strategic alignment, return on investment, capacity impact, and risk before approving and scheduling them onto the country roadmap.
• Negotiate with business unit leaders to defer, re-scope, or reject projects when you constrain operational capacity or frontline bandwidth.

2. Portfolio Governance & PMO Execution

• Manage end-to-end PMO governance for the country's tactical operational projects (including volume optimization, process simplification, customer sentiment improvement, and channel efficiency initiatives).
• Establish project management standards, milestone expectations, risk management frameworks, and accountability structures across cross-functional delivery teams.

3. Capacity Management & OKR Ownership

• Oversee organizational bandwidth and operational capacity across in-house and BPO teams to prevent operational bottlenecks and burn-out.
• Monitor and report portfolio-wide OKR impact—ensuring active projects collectively hit key operational efficiency, cost management, service level, and satisfaction targets.

4. Leadership & Team Management

• Directly mentor the Prioritization & Intake Lead, delegating operational tracking, meeting logistics, and intake documentation.
• Maintain close operational alignment with the Head, Planning & Business Insight to ensure short-term tactical projects complement multi-year strategic transformation roadmaps and regional tech deployments.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 6–8 years of dedicated Program, or Portfolio Management experience within Contact Center Operations, Shared Services, or Tech Platforms (PMP or Lean Six Sigma certification will be an advatange).
• Demonstrated experience establishing business intake frameworks, prioritization scoring models, and PMO governance structures.
• 3+ years of experience with core contact center and support metrics (cost efficiency, Service level agreement management, quality standards, volume drivers, and self-service adoption).
• Advanced stakeholder management, negotiation, and direct team leadership skills.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.