VP - Portfolio Management (EPMO Leader) - Abu Dhabi
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
This is a rare opportunity to step into a greenfield leadership role and define the way strategic projects are managed at scale. As VP - Portfolio Management, you'll set up and lead the enterprise PMO, building out the structure, tooling, and team to provide governance and visibility across all major initiatives across the group.
Client Details
A large, high-impact entity currently forming a central strategy office, with transformation high on the agenda.
Description- Design and implement the enterprise PMO operating model, from frameworks to dashboards to reporting cadences.
- Lead and scale a team of PMO professionals overseeing planning, tracking, risk management, and delivery health.
- Establish a single source of truth for project and program reporting across the enterprise, including the adoption of tools.
- Act as a gatekeeper for project governance: ensure every new initiative meets quality thresholds, risk controls, and alignment with strategic goals.
- Work closely with C-level stakeholders, translating delivery data into strategic insights and highlighting risks, delays or delivery concerns early.
- Collaborate with vendors and internal delivery teams to drive execution, particularly across digital and AI-led transformation initiatives.
- A mandate to build and own the PMO at the enterprise level.
- Work at the heart of strategic decision-making and transformation delivery.
Requirements:
- Deep experience in enterprise PMO, portfolio, or transformation leadership roles within large complex organisations.
- Proven track record setting up and scaling PMO structures from the ground up.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to build high-performing teams and influence at senior levels - must have led teams of at least 8 people.
- Fluent in project governance methodologies, reporting frameworks, and portfolio tools.
- Sector background is open, but you must be comfortable operating in fast-moving, complex environments.
- Strategic mindset with a hands-on, outcomes-first approach.
About the Company
Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.
The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:
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The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.
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