PMO Manager

Alfanar; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 280,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Alfanar is seeking a senior Portfolio/PMO leader to oversee the project portfolio, ensure strategic alignment, and drive value delivery. The role requires governance establishment, performance monitoring, and executive reporting to support informed decision-making and successful project delivery.

Key duties include establishing PMO frameworks, maintaining standards, guiding project managers, and delivering consolidated portfolio insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or any relevant field.
• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers for a strong mid-management line.
• Identify low performers and coach or release them.
• Treat subordinates fairly with no discrimination.
• Subordinate assessment based on performance toward planned results.
• Maintain delegation of authority matrix per policy.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the project portfolio and its performance.
• Ensure projects align with organizational strategy and objectives.
• Monitor portfolio benefits realization and value delivery.
• Support project prioritization and sequencing decisions.
• Establish and maintain PMO policies, frameworks, and standards.
• Ensure consistent application of project management methodologies.
• Monitor compliance with governance requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of PMO processes and tools.
• Monitor project health, progress, and performance across the portfolio.
• Review project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Provide guidance and support to project managers.
• Consolidate portfolio reports and dashboards.
• Provide management with project performance insights and recommendations.
• Support governance boards and steering committees.
• Facilitate portfolio review meetings and decision-making processes.
• Monitor resource allocation and capacity across projects.
• Conduct project reviews and quality assurance activities.
• Support project initiation, business cases, and scope development.
• Participate in vendor evaluation, selection, and performance oversight.

Skills

Portfolio management

PMO governance

Executive reporting

Vendor management

Strategic alignment

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or Any relevant field

Job description

Oversees the project portfolio to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and delivery of business value. Establishes PMO governance, monitors portfolio performance, and provides executive reporting and insights to support effective decision-making and successful project delivery.

Key Accountability Areas

Portfolio Management and Strategic Alignment:

• Oversee the project portfolio and its performance.
• Ensure projects align with organizational strategy and objectives.
• Monitor portfolio benefits realization and value delivery.
• Support project prioritization and sequencing decisions.

PMO Governance and Methodology:

• Establish and maintain PMO policies, frameworks, and standards.
• Ensure consistent application of project management methodologies.
• Monitor compliance with governance requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of PMO processes and tools.

Portfolio Oversight and Control:

• Monitor project health, progress, and performance across the portfolio.
• Review project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Provide guidance and support to project managers.

Reporting and Executive Support:

• Consolidate portfolio reports and dashboards.
• Provide management with project performance insights and recommendations.
• Support governance boards and steering committees.
• Facilitate portfolio review meetings and decision-making processes.

Resource, Quality, and Vendor Management:

• Monitor resource allocation and capacity across projects.
• Conduct project reviews and quality assurance activities.
• Support project initiation, business cases, and scope development.
• Participate in vendor evaluation, selection, and performance oversight.

Role Accountability

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or Any relevant field