Vice President, Enterprise Project Management

Role overview

This senior leadership position owns enterprise-wide project governance and the systems that turn strategy into execution. The role is accountable for shaping the organization’s project management approach, running portfolio oversight, and building an Enterprise PMO that improves delivery discipline, resource use, and cross-functional coordination.

The objective is to create a consistent governance model for major initiatives, strengthen execution across departments, and ensure strategic projects generate measurable business value.

Enterprise project strategy and governance

• Design and maintain the company’s enterprise project management strategy and governance structure.
• Define standard policies, operating procedures, frameworks, and approval mechanisms for projects.
• Keep project governance aligned with the organization’s strategic priorities.
• Advance the function from isolated project control to enterprise-level governance.

Enterprise PMO setup and leadership

• Launch and lead the Enterprise Project Management Office.
• Build processes for project intake, review, prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Introduce standardized methods, templates, and tools for project delivery.
• Raise project management maturity through structured governance and capability building.

Portfolio, program, and execution oversight

• Oversee strategic portfolios and major programs across the business.
• Balance investment priorities, resources, and delivery risk across initiatives.
• Monitor the full lifecycle of major projects and programs.
• Ensure portfolios deliver both strategic impact and financial return.
• Coordinate flagship initiatives including digital transformation, organizational upgrades, and enterprise system implementations.
• Track schedule, budget, quality, risk, and value realization for key projects.
• Set up early-alert and escalation processes to address delivery issues quickly.
• Translate project outputs into practical operational outcomes.

Cross-functional coordination and business partnering

• Align resources across business, operations, finance, HR, and technology teams.
• Drive collaboration on complex, cross-departmental initiatives.
• Establish decision-making forums and governance committees for project oversight.
• Break down organizational silos to improve execution efficiency.

Performance management, reporting, and analysis

• Create project KPI, health-check, and value-assessment systems.
• Report portfolio and program performance to the CEO, Board of Directors, and executive leadership.
• Provide ROI analysis and data-backed recommendations for decisions.
• Promote analytics-led project governance and management.

Team development and organizational capability

• Build and lead a high-performing PMO and project leadership team.
• Develop senior project managers, project directors, and governance talent.
• Encourage a strong project management culture across the organization.
• Create knowledge-sharing and best-practice replication mechanisms.

Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree or above in Project Management, Engineering Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline is required. Advanced credentials such as an MBA, PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or similar certifications are preferred.

Applicants should bring at least 20 years of experience in project management, strategy execution, or operations leadership, including no less than 15 years at the enterprise governance level. Experience building PMOs in large organizations, managing complex programs, and supporting digital transformation, organizational change, or enterprise upgrade initiatives is expected.

Preferred background

• Experience in large conglomerates, multinational companies, or publicly listed organizations.
• Exposure to ERP, digital transformation, or international project environments.
• Experience with restructuring, mergers and acquisitions integration, or enterprise transformation.
• History of reporting to the Board or supporting executive governance.

Success measures

• Higher on-time completion rates for strategic projects.
• Better project ROI and value realization.
• Stronger Enterprise PMO maturity.
• Improved resource utilization across projects.
• Greater efficiency in cross-department collaboration.