PMO Manager

alfanar; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

alfanar, a Saudi company with international presence, seeks a Portfolio Manager to oversee the project portfolio and ensure strategic alignment and value delivery. You will establish PMO governance, monitor performance, and provide executive reporting to support decision‑making and successful delivery.

The role requires 6–10 years of experience in project/portfolio management, strong governance knowledge, and excellent communication skills to guide project managers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business Administration or a related field.
• 6–10 years of experience in project or portfolio management.
• Experience with PMO governance and portfolio management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the project portfolio and ensure alignment with strategic objectives and delivery of business value.
• Establish PMO governance, standards, and methodologies; monitor governance compliance.
• Provide executive reporting and insights to support decision-making and successful delivery.
• Support project prioritization, risk management, and resource planning across the portfolio.
• Deliver consolidated portfolio reports and dashboards for governance boards.

Skills

Business Planning

Project Management

Project Management Methodology

Project Management Tools

Communication

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

Job description

Job Purpose

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.

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.
• Oversee portfolio-level change control processes.
• 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

HR Proficiency:

• 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

Work Experience

6 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies

• Business Planning
• Project Management
• Project Management Methodology
• Project Management Tools
• Communication

Profile description

Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.

The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.

alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.

For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com