Head of PMO

Quick Facts

• Role: Head of PMO

Description

Lead the PMO by managing the organization’s strategic project and initiative portfolio and ensuring alignment with business strategy. Translate strategic goals into portfolio priorities and initiatives, and provide leadership recommendations on starting, stopping, changing scope, and sequencing initiatives. Monitor portfolio KPI achievement and business outcomes, and improve PMO effectiveness using data, automation, and AI.

Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of projects and strategic initiatives and keep it coherent with the organization’s strategy
• Convert strategic objectives into portfolio priorities and concrete initiatives
• Recommend which initiatives to prioritize, start, stop, change scope, and sequence
• Assess new initiatives for business value, costs, TCO, risks, dependencies, feasibility, and resource demand
• Run regular portfolio reviews and a quarterly planning cycle
• Identify dependencies, conflicts, and constraints between initiatives and propose solutions
• Track attainment of portfolio goals and KPIs and evaluate achievement of intended business benefits
• Lead the PMO team and build a results-accountability culture
• Provide recommendations to senior leadership to support portfolio, priority, and resource-allocation decisions
• Improve PMO efficiency using data, automation, and AI

Requirements

• 7 years of experience in project, program, or portfolio management, including experience in an international environment
• Experience in building, running, or transforming a PMO and managing a team
• Practical experience in portfolio management, prioritization, and resource allocation
• Ability to evaluate initiatives from the perspective of business value, costs, TCO, and risk
• Strategic and critical thinking; challenge assumptions and propose alternative solutions
• Managerial courage, ownership, and ability to provide clear recommendations to leadership
• Ability to make decisions and act with incomplete information
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment and build business–IT collaboration
• Fluent English

Benefits

• Flexible working hours (start between 7:00 and 10:00)
• Annual bonus tied to the company’s financial performance and individual evaluation
• Tools and space for professional development
• Remote work option
• Remote work allowance based on hourly settlement
• Co-financing for medical care
• Group life insurance
• BEST Moves sports activity program
• Foreign language learning platform
• Monthly MyBenefit cafeteria top-up (e.g., Multisport card, cinema tickets, store vouchers)
• Company gamification rewards or extra days off
• Additional benefits for people with a disability certificate
• Anniversary awards
• Feedback-based culture where your voice matters
• Supportive “BEST atmosphere”