Project Manager

Star Outsourcing Group Inc; Eastern Manila District; On-site; PHP 837,000 - 1,004,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Most weekends off

Early finish most days

No graveyard shift

Job summary

Star Outsourcing Group Inc. in Ortigas Center, Manila, is seeking an experienced PMO lead to own end-to-end project delivery for Star Insure’s initiatives. You’ll manage the monday.com workspace, govern portfolios, and produce clear executive status reports.

You will work with a NZ-based sponsor, applying PMP/PRINCE2/Agile methods, and use Claude for planning, analysis, and documentation. Expect an early-afternoon finish, no graveyard shifts, and steady growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of end-to-end project delivery in PMO roles.
• Proficient with monday.com workspaces, boards, dashboards and automations.
• Experience using Claude for planning, analysis and documentation.
• Holding a recognised project management qualification (PMP/PRINCE2/Agile).
• Strong briefing skills and ability to run multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Run Star Insure projects end to end: scope, plan, schedule, risks, delivery and handover.
• Own the monday.com workspace: boards, automations, dashboards and integrations.
• Maintain portfolio visibility and escalate decisions as needed.
• Write concise status reports for an executive audience.
• Lead project rhythm: kick-offs, stand-ups, steering updates and actions.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies and changes proactively.
• Collaborate with NZ sponsors and stakeholders across departments.
• Leverage Claude to accelerate planning, analysis and documentation.
• Set templates, methods and standards for new projects.
• Close projects with benefits checked and lessons captured.

Skills

monday.com expert

Claude experience

PMP/PRINCE2/Agile

End-to-end PMO

Education

Degree in Business/IT

monday.com certification

Tools

monday.com

Claude

Job description

Own the delivery. Bring the method. Finished by early afternoon most days.

Two things you should know up front.

One: most days you’re out the door by early afternoon, while the rest of Manila is still watching the clock. The gym, the school run, a long lunch, a nap — your call. No graveyard shift.

Two: you’ll be second in command of the PMO. Not a coordinator updating somebody else’s plan. Not project manager number twelve on a floor full of them. The right hand to the Head of Projects, with a real say in how every project is planned, tracked and delivered.

We’re Star Outsourcing Group Inc. (SOGI), a new outsourcing company in Ortigas Center. We were set up to support Star Insure, a New Zealand insurance business, and our Manila team of 20 awesome people goes live on 1 December 2026. You’ll be employed by SOGI and work on Star Insure’s projects. Star Insure is an ambitious business that is changing how it works, and the projects are where that happens. These aren’t tidy-up jobs. They’re the changes the whole company is watching — backed from the top, moving fast, and the kind of work you’ll want to talk about when you get home. What we need is a practitioner who brings the discipline: proper plans, honest status, risks raised early, and delivery dates that mean something.

You’ll report directly to Star Insure’s Head of Projects & Outsourcing, who is based in Auckland, New Zealand — one person between you and the executive team, and no waiting three weeks for a decision.

Two tools matter here, and neither is optional. We run our projects on monday.com, and we need you at expert level — building it, not just using it. And we work with Claude every day, so you need real experience putting it to work in a PMO — plans, status reports, risk logs, meeting actions — before you walk in.

What you’ll actually be doing

Running Star Insure’s projects end to end — scope, plan, schedule, risks, delivery and handover

Owning our monday.com workspace: the boards, automations, dashboards, integrations and portfolio views, built so people actually use them

Keeping the whole portfolio visible — what’s on track, what’s slipping and what needs a decision — without anyone having to ask

Writing status reports that tell the truth, clearly and briefly, for an executive audience

Running the project rhythm: kick-offs, stand-ups, steering updates, and actions followed through until they’re done

Managing risks, issues, dependencies and changes before they turn into surprises

Working directly with project sponsors and subject‑matter experts in New Zealand, across finance, claims, customer service, operations and technology

Using Claude to do the work faster and better — planning, analysis, drafting, documentation — and showing others how

Setting the standards: the templates, the methods and the way we run projects, so every new project starts from a proven base

Closing projects properly — benefits checked, lessons captured, nothing left hanging

This is you

You’ve managed projects end to end for five years or more, and you can show us what you delivered

You’re a monday.com expert. You’ve designed and built workspaces from scratch — boards, automations, dashboards, integrations — and you’re the person others come to when they’re stuck. This is a must

You’ve used Claude to run project and PMO work, not just to write emails, and you can show us how. You know how to brief it well, how to check what it gives you, and where it helps most. This is also a must

You hold a recognised project management qualification — PMP, PRINCE2, Agile or similar. This is a must too

You know the method, not just the tools: scheduling, scope control, risk and issue management, and handling stakeholders who all want to be first

You can run several projects at once without dropping any of them

You tell the truth about status. Amber means amber, and you say it early

Your English is strong enough to hold your own with a New Zealand executive team, in writing and on a call

You’re mature, self‑directed and genuinely autonomous. Your manager is in New Zealand, nobody will be standing behind you, and you won’t want them to

Degree or diploma in Business, Management, IT or a related field

monday.com certification

Insurance or financial services

Working with a New Zealand or Australian business

Systems implementation or business process improvement projects

Building automations or AI-assisted workflows that saved a team real time

What we’re offering

PHP 75,000 – 90,000 per month, depending on experience

13th month pay on top of your monthly salary

HMO coverage after 30 days of service — not after six months of probation. Cover is for you, not dependents

10 days paid leave a year

New Zealand public holidays as paid days off

Gym membership after 30 days of service

A five‑star serviced office in Ortigas Center, fully fitted out with all equipment provided. You won’t be sourcing desks or chasing IT

Most weekends off, an early finish most days, and no graveyard shift

A direct line to the person who owns Star Insure’s whole project portfolio — you’ll never be a name on an org chart

Real room to grow: the portfolio is growing, and so is the team that delivers it

What it’s like here

We’re new, we’re small, and we’re still working out what this place feels like. That’s rather the point — you get a say in it instead of inheriting somebody else’s.

A team small enough that everyone knows what everyone else is working on, and small enough that your work actually gets seen

Team events and socials — and we do them, rather than talk about doing them

Birthdays, work anniversaries and hitting targets get marked properly, not quietly ignored

Coffee and tea on site, which matters more than you’d think at this hour

The terms — read this bit properly

This is an early start, because you’ll work New Zealand business hours. We’d rather you knew all of it now than found out at offer stage.

Start time is 4:00 AM during New Zealand daylight saving (late September to early April) and 5:00 AM for the rest of the year, Monday to Friday

Eight hours a day, 40 hours a week — so on a normal day you’re done by early afternoon

It’s a manager role, so there will be days a project needs more than eight hours, and the odd weekend, to get over the line. We’re looking for someone who works to the outcome, not the clock

You’ll need to sort your own commute at that hour, and we’ve pitched the salary with that in mind. Think honestly about the trip from where you live before you apply

On‑site in Ortigas Center, five days a week. Working from home is only for typhoons, flooding or outages

We follow the New Zealand calendar: Philippine public holidays that fall on a working day are worked, and paid at the legal holiday rates

Six‑month probationary period, and salary paid twice a month, on the 15th and 30th

In return: most afternoons are genuinely yours, and you’ll rarely sit in traffic

We read every application ourselves, and you’ll hear back from us either way.