Project Director / Manager (PMO)

Reports to: Project Director / Manager – with potential dotted line to Global PMO Director or the Regional Engineering head

Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan

Role: Project PMO

Role Purpose

This role anchors the project governance backbone for the project

The mandate is to drive visibility, accountability, and execution discipline across all

disciplines within project, ensuring the project consistently delivers on strategic priorities, financial commitments, and operational value creation.

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Governance & Performance Management

- Lead the project governance framework.

- Build and operate an enterprise-level performance cockpit tracking scope, cost, schedule, risks and benefits for the project.

- Drive monthly and quarterly performance reviews with senior leadership.

- Facilitate early escalation on high-visibility or at-risk projects.

2. Project Insights & Decision Support

- Translate project performance data into executive insights.

- Prepare decision-ready materials for investment committees.

- Provide forward-looking risk and interdependency analysis.

- Manage the annual capital planning cycle.

3. Standards, Tools & Digital Enablement

- Own and evolve the PMO toolkit.

- Champion digital PM solutions and dashboards.

- Drive enterprise-wide adoption of common tools.

5. Capability Building & Operating Model Excellence

- Provide coaching to project team

- Ensure vertical start-up readiness and benefits tracking.

Profile Requirements

Experience & Expertise

- 12–18+ years in capital program governance or engineering PMO in asset-intensive industries.

- Exposure to €2m to 100m + projects

- Strong command of capex management

- Executive communication and decision-support capability.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

- Enterprise-minded influencer.

- Structured, analytical, and disciplined.

- Strong change-leader who can drive convergence.

- Skilled at navigating ambiguity.

Technical & Functional Skills

- Expertise in project controls, capex budgeting, and risk management.

- Strong digital literacy (Power BI/Tableau, PPM tools).

- Ability to create executive-ready reporting.

- Skilled at running complex governance routines.

Success Measures

- On-time, on-budget performance of project portfolio.

- Governance discipline across functions.

- Strong early-warning risk systems and reporting – leading KPI oriented

- Quality of insights for Global Ops LT and Steerco.

- PMO capability uplift and improved project outcomes