Director, Project Management Office

Director, Project Management Office (Open)

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Director, Project Management Office (Open)

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• Define the strategic objectives of the PMO and implement various programs to meet the objectives.
• Develop, own and ensure compliance with project management standards that are mutually aligned with MUFG and industry best practices.
• Provide project management tools and templates for use across the organization.
• Oversee the organization's project portfolio to ensure effective prioritization and resource allocation.
• Monitor project progress, budgets, risks and portfolio health.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on project status and outcomes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and stakeholders.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to understand priorities and communicate project status and outcomes.
• Lead, mentor and develop the PMO team and project managers.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Ensure adequate training and development opportunities for project management staff.
• Oversee resource planning and allocation across projects to mitigate risks and optimize efficiency.
• Lead the ASO PMO function overseeing a wide variety of projects (over 300 projects totaling over SGD 60 million)
• Lead the transformation of PMO to cover project portfolio status reporting, project lifecycle governance, project plan review, project deliverable review and phase exit reviews.
• Oversee Project Managers' adherence to the project lifecycle management process
• Collaborate with the IT Finance team to manage project costs as a portfolio manager, also taking into consideration the investment budget of ASO.
• For larger scale, higher criticality projects, PMO is expected to exercise close monitoring of status, to ensure that project risks and issues are adequately addressed in a timely manner by the project team.
• Continuously assess and improve the project governance model.
• Aligning with HO's project life cycle guidelines, explore any room to further improve existing APAC governance scheme.
• Uplift the Project Management capability in ASO, e.g., identifying knowledge gaps, socializing lessons learnt, curating PM training courses and certifications, etc.
• Re-engineer and/or streamline existing processes to make them fit-for-purpose.
• Leverage experience and knowledge as the ASO portfolio manager to support ASO strategic decision-making at the organization level.
• Facilitate the successful delivery of projects in the ASO portfolio but building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, project management teams, technical delivery teams, etc.

Job Requirements

• Min. 15 years of IT experience, with experience in portfolio management.
• Experience in overseeing a wide variety of projects (over 300 projects totaling over SGD 60 million)
• PMP certified
• Strategical mind set, experience in interacting with multiple stakeholders (Development Leads, Project Managers, senior stakeholders, business users, etc.)
• Proven track record with hands-on experience to deliver positive outcomes in ambiguous environments
• Experience in the establishment of frameworks, processes, procedures for large organizations
• Collaborative with a growth mindset
• Analytical, critical thinking skills
• Open-minded and innovative in exploring new and alternative solutions to optimize process, arriving at sound decisions and solutions.
• A strong leader who can communicate his/her ideas and views persuasively and sustain positive relationships with team members and other stakeholders.
• Finance qualification as well as PMP qualification are preferable.
• Experience in working in the multinational environment to understand the diversity and cultural differences
• Excellent presentation skills to deliver messages to the audience both technical domain people and non-technical people.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified.

Seniority level

• Seniority levelDirector

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionInformation Technology

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