PMO / Sr. Project Manager

The Project Manager-PMO provides strategic leadership for complex, high-impact initiatives within Group Human Resources. Joining a small, high-performing Group HR team, the role carries the mandate to build and strategically anchor a new PMO, accountable for the end-to-end delivery of integration and future-focused initiatives across multiple workstreams.

Acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, the role ensures alignment with corporate priorities, robust governance, and the realisation of measurable business value, while positioning the PMO as a central enabler for the HR divisions.

We are looking for individuals who are motivated to actively shape our working environment, take constructive and respectful positions, and challenge the status quo. Collaboration at eye level, trust, and genuine room to shape outcomes define our culture. The role requires strong analytical and solution-oriented thinking, high initiative, and the confidence to explore new approaches, combined with clear, targeted communication and strong negotiation skills.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Project Leadership

• Own the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-stream HR initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and business priorities.
• Provide strategic direction, structure, and oversight across project portfolios, balancing scope, value, risk, and investment.
• Ensure sustainable delivery outcomes through effective prioritization and sequencing of initiatives.

Governance, Decision-Making & Control

• Establish and enforce robust governance models, decision forums, and escalation paths.
• Ensure consistent application of project management standards, methodologies, and quality criteria.
• Maintain executive-level transparency on progress, risks, dependencies, and value realization.

Risk, Change & Dependency Management

• Anticipate and manage strategic risks, cross-project dependencies, and organizational impacts.
• Lead complex change and trade-off discussions with sponsors and senior stakeholders.
• Drive timely decisions to protect delivery commitments and business outcomes.

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and senior sponsors.
• Align diverse stakeholder interests across HR, IT, Finance, Legal & Compliance, and Business Units.
• Shape and steer communication at executive level to enable informed decision-making.

Resource, Portfolio & Capability Management

• Oversee resource and capacity planning across initiatives to optimize utilization and delivery resilience.
• Contribute to portfolio-level planning and prioritization within GHR.
• Build and mature project management capabilities, tools, and ways of working across the function.

Business & Value Orientation

• Translate strategic business objectives into executable delivery roadmaps.
• Ensure projects deliver measurable outcomes, benefits, and long-term value.
• Continuously improve delivery effectiveness and execution excellence within GHR.