Job Purpose:
Provide senior functional and operational leadership across Pakistan Single Window's Data Management Office, ensuring that enterprise data, business intelligence and analytics capabilities are delivered with strong governance, clear accountability, disciplined execution and sustainable technical foundations.
The role will translate organisational priorities into executable data initiatives, services and capabilities; strengthen delivery discipline; establish and enforce professional standards; and ensure that data governance, architecture, engineering, BI, analytics and data services operate as an integrated function.
A particular focus of the role will be to establish PSW's data reporting capability as a reliable, digital and governed service, progressively reducing dependence on manual reporting, field-based MIS processes and repeated domain-level data validation.
The initial priority of the role is to bring visibility, sequencing and delivery discipline to the Data Management Office's active initiatives and to operationalise governance across current data workstreams.
Within the first 30 days, the SVP is expected to complete a baseline assessment of active initiatives and present a prioritisation and delivery plan to the CEO and CEDO.
The SVP will work closely with the CEDO, executive management, business functions and technology teams, providing the CEDO with strong functional leadership, objective performance visibility and practical recommendations on delivery, capability, priorities and risks. Given the direct bearing of data delivery on enterprise-wide reporting and client commitments, portfolio-level delivery performance is reported directly to the CEO alongside functional reporting to the CEDO.
The role is expected to lead primarily through functional teams and professional leads, while remaining willing to engage directly on critical workstreams where doing so is necessary to establish delivery momentum, before transitioning fully to a leadership-through-others model as team capability matures.
Main Responsibilities:
Sections A–H define the full scope of the role. In the initial period, primary weight sits on B (Delivery, Performance and Reporting), C (Data Governance and Quality) and E (Data Reporting, BI, Analytics and Data Products); D, F and G are to be progressed in parallel; H operates as the ongoing stakeholder and engagement rhythm underpinning all of the above.
A. Data Function Roadmaps and Prioritization
Translate and improve the approved data strategy and priorities into executable functional roadmaps, delivery plans and initiatives.
Maintain functional roadmaps covering data governance, data platforms, reporting, BI, analytics and data services.
Identify opportunities where data, analytics, automation and AI can improve business performance, decision-making and service delivery.
Advise the CEDO on functional priorities, dependencies, risks, resource requirements and investment needs.
Ensure that initiatives are prioritized based on business value, strategic importance, regulatory requirements, feasibility and available capacity.
Maintain alignment between the Data Management Office's priorities and PSW's broader technology and enterprise architecture direction.
B. Delivery, Performance and Reporting
Provide functional leadership and oversight of the Data Management Office's delivery portfolio.
Convert approved priorities into clear programmes, initiatives, deliverables, milestones, owners and dependencies.
Establish effective delivery management mechanisms covering progress, risks, dependencies, quality, resources and timelines.
Ensure timely identification and escalation of delivery risks, bottlenecks and capacity constraints to the CEDO and, for portfolio-level delivery performance, to the CEO.
Challenge slippage, unclear ownership and weak delivery performance and drive corrective action through responsible teams.
Establish delivery metrics and dashboards providing transparent,…