Senior Manager - PMO

Transguard Group was established in 2001 and has diversified significantly, we lead in the fields of Cash Services, Security Services, Manpower Services, Facilities Management & Aviation. Transguard Group is the UAE’s most trusted business support and outsourcing provider and has a large, dynamic and culturally diverse workforce with 50,000 employees! We are currently recruiting for a Senior Manager - PMO for our trusted client in the Aviation industry to be based out of their headquarters in Dubai.

Purpose-

The purpose of the role is to develop & drive a standardized Project Management methodology throughout company’s programmes in alignment and compliance with the Portfolio Governance Manual and Project Management Methodologies implemented.
To act as a focal point for PMO and drive the support across projects, efficiencies across the department, governance, project controls, and better delivery visibility.

Responsibilities-

• Drive and setup Assurance programme across projects.
• Drive and co-ordinate the reporting and dashboard development of Portfolio & Programmes.
• Co-ordinate with the Programme team to develop Build and maintain a detailed view of the portfolio assurance points across each project. Key metrics need to be reviewed across various data points inclusive of meeting with PMs on a regular basis to discuss, review findings and recommend improvements.
• Drive forward the PMO across governance, project management, process maps, smartcards and other documents to ensure all support documents and reports are kept up to date.
• Co-ordinate the improvement of PMO and portfolio management methodologies.
• Drive the processes and standards documentation activities in a centralized PMO knowledge base.
• Co-ordinate continuous alignment of portfolio management tool to the most recent business processes, related governance framework, and project management methodology.
• Coordinate with all internal parties and external technology partners to ensure any new business requirements are captured and quickly implemented into portfolio management tool (Radar).
• Provide the Programme team with administrative support and guidance through the portfolio and project processes.
  Document/Deliverables management including maintenance of document libraries.
• General PMO and assurance administration including meeting support, liaison with other departments such as HR and Finance, assisting with communication activities and maintaining qualitative and quantitative health assessments across the Portfolio.
• Demonstrate strong client focus at the organizational level ensuring good working relationships.
• Coordinate SME, internal/ external resources, etc. to ensure optimal execution of the workload.
• Motivate project team members to achieve project objectives.
  Communicate/ report across organization, as required.

• PMP or other Project & Programme Management qualifications are required
• Knowledge of portfolio, programme and project management
• Knowledge of key project management areas of scheduling, risks, financial controls, resourcing and stakeholder management
• Extensive experience in the usage of MS Project, MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of reporting tools such as Clarity PPM, Microsoft Office, Project, SharePoint, Tableau, SQL

This position profile indicates in general the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other essential functions expected of an employee. An employee may be asked to perform other duties as required which are within the scope, spirit, and purpose of the position profile. The employee shall also adhere to TRANSGUARD’S information security policies and procedures and the policies and procedures applicable to their area of responsibility.