Our client, a leading organization in Saudi Arabia, is establishing a high-impact Results-Delivery Office (RDO) to enhance strategic initiative monitoring and delivery. We're seeking an experienced PMO expert to design and implement a world-class governance framework tailored to regional requirements.
Role Purpose
Provide end-to-end expertise across diagnostics, operating model design, and governance architecture to ensure the new RDO can effectively monitor, steer, and escalate strategic initiatives while embedding best-practice PMO standards.
Key Objectives
- Current-State Assessment: Deliver evidence-based diagnostic of existing strategy-delivery capabilities, benchmarked against leading organizational PMOs
- Target Operating Model & Governance: Design future-state RDO structure, processes, decision rights, and templates that integrate seamlessly with existing organizational layers
- Implementation Roadmap: Translate design into phased, resource-loaded plan with milestones, KPIs, and risk mitigations
Requirements
Education & Credentials
- Bachelor's in Engineering, Business, or Public Administration (MBA or Master's in Project Management preferred)
- PMP certification plus at least one of: PgMP, PMI-PfMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or MoP
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt advantageous
Experience
- 10+ years establishing or transforming PMOs/RDOs
- Minimum 3 engagements in public sector or GCC region
- Proven experience designing governance frameworks covering decision rights, escalation, KPIs & risk control
- Demonstrated track record delivering diagnostics and operating model design in multi-stakeholder environments
Core Competencies
- Strategic Analysis & Benchmarking: Distilling complex qualitative & quantitative inputs into clear insights
- Operating Model Engineering: Organizing people, processes & data flows into coherent, scalable frameworks
- Governance Design: Establishing decision authorities, cadence, RACI and reporting standards that drive accountability
- Stakeholder Engagement: Building trust across senior leadership, external partners, and technical teams
- Risk-Informed Planning: Integrating risk registers, mitigation tactics, and scenario thinking
- Communication Excellence: Producing bilingual deliverables, facilitating workshops, and presenting to executive boards