Group PMO Leader: Portfolio Governance & Reporting

Advanced Search Group; Doha; On-site; QAR 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

S'hail Shipping and Maritime Services – Qatar, Doha is seeking a Group PMO Manager to establish and maintain a unified PMO across all clusters. This strategic governance role focuses on portfolio health, risk escalation, and executive reporting to ensure data integrity and transparency for all active projects and strategic programs.

The role collaborates with the CEO, oversees governance standards, and delivers monthly variance analyses, dashboards, and board-ready materials.

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, project governance, and executive reporting in a publicly listed company.
• Fluency in English and Arabic language skills.
• Strong financial acumen: budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, project cost management.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Governance: design, build, and operate a unified PMO tracker across all clusters.
• Establish standardized project taxonomy, status definitions, and reporting formats.
• Create domain-specific PMO templates (construction, M&A, technology, healthcare, real estate).
• Ensure governance and data-integrity standards for board reporting.
• Provide monthly variance analysis and risk reporting with root-cause narratives.
• Prepare executive dashboards for CEO and board readiness.
• Coordinate monthly PMO forum and elevate blockers.
• Develop PMO tools and train cluster teams on processes and data standards.

Skills

English fluency

Arabic language skills

Excel

Cross-functional stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in project management / business / engineering / finance

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

S'hail Shipping and Maritime Services – Qatar, Doha is seeking a Group PMO Manager to establish and maintain a unified PMO across all clusters. This strategic governance role focuses on portfolio health, risk escalation, and executive reporting to ensure data integrity and transparency for all active projects and strategic programs.

The role collaborates with the CEO, oversees governance standards, and delivers monthly variance analyses, dashboards, and board-ready materials.