The Senior Manager – Project Management will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Project Management Office governance across the Marketing portfolio. The role will oversee strategic initiatives, priority business-as-usual initiatives, and the Integrated Marketing Plan, ensuring that priorities are supported by clear governance, reliable management information, effective controls, and timely decision-making.
Reporting to the Senior Director - Project Portfolio Management, the role will strengthen portfolio discipline, provide forward-looking delivery insight, and lead PMO resources while maintaining delivery accountability with the respective initiative and scope owners.
Key Responsibilities
1. PMO Strategy, Setup, and Maturity
· Design, establish, and continuously improve the Marketing PMO operating model, governance framework, standards, templates, controls, and decision rights.
· Assess PMO maturity and maintain a practical improvement roadmap covering governance, controls, reporting assurance, risk management, change control, and benefits realization.
· Define appropriate governance pathways for strategic initiatives, priority BAU initiatives, IMP scopes, and other operational activities.
· Embed consistent project, program, and portfolio management practices aligned with recognized PMI principles and proportionate to delivery complexity.
2. Portfolio Governance and Strategic Alignment
· Lead consolidated governance of the Marketing portfolio, including strategic initiatives, priority BAU initiatives, and IMP scopes.
· Translate strategic priorities into governed portfolios with clear outcomes, milestones, ownership, dependencies, decisions, and success measures.
· Facilitate portfolio governance reviews and ensure decisions, actions, and escalations are documented and followed through.
· Provide evidence-based recommendations on prioritization, sequencing, delivery readiness, and corrective action.
· Maintain alignment with approved priorities, budgets, procurement requirements, and cross-functional commitments.
3. Integrated Marketing Plan Governance
· Oversee the weekly and bi-weekly IMP governance and tracking cycles, including preparation, decision support, action management, and closure.
· Ensure the consolidated IMP view accurately reflects approved scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, required decisions, and delivery status.
· Drive coordination across scope owners and cross-functional contributors to resolve dependencies and improve delivery predictability.
· Align IMP governance with the wider strategic and BAU portfolio.
4. Portfolio Performance, Controls, and Assurance
· Establish and oversee controls covering scope, schedule, budget, change, risk, issue, dependency, action, decision, and benefits management.
· Define stage gates, portfolio health criteria, escalation thresholds, and minimum evidence requirements.
· Conduct portfolio health reviews and professionally challenge incomplete, inconsistent, or unsupported updates.
· Identify recurring delivery constraints and control gaps and drive corrective action with accountable owners.
· Ensure material changes are assessed for schedule, budget, resource, dependency, and benefits impacts before approval.
5. Executive Reporting and Decision Support
· Own the quality and integrity of portfolio-level management information provided to the Senior Director - Project Portfolio Management.
· Oversee the consolidation and validation of reports, dashboards, trackers, and presentation inputs prepared by the relevant owners.
· Provide concise executive insights on portfolio health, emerging risks, decisions required, delivery confidence, and recommended interventions.
· Reconcile information across trackers, dashboards, presentations, financial inputs, and owner updates before management review.
· Maintain decision logs and ensure governance outcomes are traceable to actions and accountable owners.
6. Risk, Dependency, and Change…