Vice President, Technology Transformation Office Portfolio Manager

Transformation Office Portfolio Manager is responsible for governing the technology projects portfolio of change across agreed Mashreq’s groups.

• Manage and govern the technology change portfolio for one or more assigned Mashreq Groups, acting as the Transformation Office partner to Group leadership across investment planning, delivery governance, portfolio performance, value realization and forward forecasting.

• Provide an accurate, decision-oriented view of the portfolio from demand and budget formulation through initiation, execution, closure and benefits realization, maintaining a single source of truth and ensuring adherence to Mashreq project Methods.

• Act as a trusted advisor to Group Heads and senior stakeholders, proactively identifying portfolio risks, dependencies, delivery constraints and value leakage; drive resolution and escalate material concerns through the appropriate governance forums.

• Provide Project Quality Assurance across the assigned portfolio and strengthen project-management capability by assuring PM competence and Method compliance, coaching and training project managers, and directly managing selected projects where required.

• Works with the respective Owners within Groups to ensure that all transformation initiatives are aligned with Mashreq's strategic goals and objectives, by providing active support and coordination during the budgeting, initiation and planning cycles,

• Fosters close collaboration with senior leadership to ensure buy-in support, and effective decision-making throughout the transformation journeys.

• Agrees, establishes and applies prioritization criteria to the transformation initiatives to support the execution of the overall bank strategy and growth aspirations, leveraging on synergies where possible, ensuring a balanced focus on achieving short-term improvements while building long-term value for sustainable growth,

• Acts as Initiation Lead, either directly or by identifying resources to hold this role, and coordinate the activities related to initiation, planning, estimations, articulations of the benefits and business case to be included in the request for budgets in the form of the Executive Summary.

• Review Executive Summaries, make best effort to check for completeness of the estimates and be one of the mandatory signatories,

• Monitors and reports on the transformation initiatives roadmap at the Mashreq and Group levels, and escalates concerns as necessary,

• Ensures transparency and access to accurate information by maintaining the single source of truth on the transformation initiatives,

• Defines and implements a communication strategy to regularly disseminate and communicate progress updates and outcomes of transformation initiatives to the right stakeholders, ensuring transparency,

• Works with key stakeholders to optimize allocation of resources, including talent, technology, and finances, for efficient utilization toward delivery excellence.

• Leads projects managers in the management of projects within the Portfolio. Assures that the execution of projects is done in accordance with Mashreq’s Methods.

• Provides training and knowledge transfer as required on TO approved ways of working.

• Contributes to the development of Mashreq’s Delivery Methods.

Work towards continuously improving Mashreq’s delivery capabilities thus maximizing the opportunities for business value creation from transformation initiatives.