Group PMO Director: Portfolio Governance & Insights

Confidential; Doha; On-site; QAR 380,000 - 680,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Group PMO Manager to establish a unified PMO across five clusters, ensuring portfolio health, data integrity, and governance. You will report to the CEO and drive executive-level visibility for projects, M&A initiatives, and strategic programs.

This role is strategic governance, focusing on variance tracking, risk escalation, and standardized, auditable PMO outputs for board consideration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, business administration, engineering, finance, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of PMO experience in multi-cluster, multi-geography, or multi-billion-dollar portfolio environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in portfolio management, governance, and executive reporting in a publicly listed company.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, scenario modeling) and PowerPoint.
• Proven ability to design and implement PMO standards and templates that scale across diverse units.
• Strong financial acumen: budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, project cost management.
• Meticulous attention to detail and governance compliance.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Fluency in English; Arabic language skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a unified PMO tracker across all clusters.
• Establish standardized project taxonomy, status definitions, and reporting formats.
• Create PMO templates for construction, M&A, technology, healthcare, real estate.
• Ensure metrics are governance-ready and suitable for board reporting.
• Track and report monthly on budget, schedule, cost variance, completion, and health.
• Escalate variances above thresholds to cluster heads and CEO.
• Maintain a consolidated risk register and top-risk status.
• Provide monthly variance analysis and trend reporting.
• Produce monthly executive dashboards and quarterly board-pack materials.
• Train cluster teams on PMO processes and data standards.

Skills

PMO leadership

Portfolio governance

Executive reporting

Data integrity

Risk management

Cross-functional teams

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Confidential is seeking a Group PMO Manager to establish a unified PMO across five clusters, ensuring portfolio health, data integrity, and governance. You will report to the CEO and drive executive-level visibility for projects, M&A initiatives, and strategic programs.

This role is strategic governance, focusing on variance tracking, risk escalation, and standardized, auditable PMO outputs for board consideration.