Senior Associate - PMO

Role Overview

Senior Associate - PMO at Aldar Properties, supporting the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) team's strategy, services, and deliverables.

Role Purpose

Drive successful implementation of the EPMO team's strategy and services by establishing project and program management frameworks, managing the delivery of strategic initiatives, and supporting business owners in achieving organizational priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

• Support the end-to-end process of identification, development, prioritization, and implementation of the highest impact and most strategic projects and programs in the organization.
• Establish frameworks to manage initiatives, including methodologies, tools, and organizational structures.
• Prioritize initiatives for implementation and ensure alignment with strategy.
• Determine key steps and milestones for implementing initiatives in coordination with Business Owners.
• Conduct research, analysis, and other strategic activities in collaboration with the Strategy team as required by the business.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Identify the interdependencies between initiatives and manage risks and escalation on singular and aggregate levels.
• Manage and monitor change requests and ensure they adhere to approved policies.

Performance Monitoring & Reporting

• Report project progress, achievements, interdependencies, risks, and challenges to Management.
• Review quality and performance reports and perform Quality Assurance on all initiative deliverables and outputs.

Resource & Operational Management

• Manage the assigned EPMO manpower to initiatives and conduct regular manpower planning and allocation.
• Set up priorities to tasks and categorize them according to previously set standards.
• Maintain the organizational structure and roles within the initiative's ecosystem.

Stakeholder Support & Development

• Provide support to business owners and sponsors in uplifting the quality of project plans and other project and initiative artifacts.
• Define the training needs of initiative teams, recommend necessary training courses, and monitor the effectiveness and results of these courses.

Special Projects

• Support the delivery and monitoring of ad hoc strategic and special business projects.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in a Project Management Office role.
• Experience managing the complete lifecycle of a project with project teams of 5 to 25 people.
• Experience managing PMO in the Real Estate sector or corporate departments in a holding structure.
• Led implementations from ideation to post-closing of initiatives in disciplines such as CX, Procurement, HR, Marketing, Data, Innovation, and Process Improvement.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Management or other relevant fields.

Skills & Competencies

• Project Management.
• Leadership Skills.
• Strategic Planning.
• Research and Analysis.
• A.I. prompting and document production skills are highly advantageous.