This role is for Regional Project Management office lead for Infrastructure, and He/she will play a pivotal role in managing projects across multiple locations and oversees a team of regional project managers, ensuring successful delivery of projects across APAC. This executive role requires strategic leadership, cross-functional coordination, and operational excellence to achieve organizational goals and ensure alignment with corporate objectives.

Strategic Leadership

• Define the strategic objectives of the PMO and oversee the Technology Infrastructure services project portfolio.

Governance and Standards

• Ensure compliance with MUFG project management standards for financial discipline, management reporting and other project tracking mechanisms.

Portfolio Management

• Oversee the organization's project portfolio to ensure effective prioritization and resource allocation.
• Monitor project progress, budgets, risks, and portfolio health.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on project status and outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to understand priorities and communicate project status and outcomes.

Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop the PMO team and project managers.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure adequate training and development opportunities for project management staff.

Resource Optimization

• Oversee resource planning and allocation across projects to mitigate risks and optimize efficiency.

Reporting

• Submit monthly reports based on budget analysis, risks, and resources to regional and global stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead ASO TIS PMO function overseeing a wide variety of projects (over 50 projects totalling over SGD 20 million)
• Lead the transformation of PMO to cover project portfolio status reporting, project lifecycle governance, project plan review, project deliverable review and phase exit reviews.
• Oversee Project Managers' adherence to the project lifecycle management process
• Collaborate with the IT Finance team to manage project costs as a portfolio manager, also taking into consideration the investment budget of TIS.
• For larger scale, higher criticality projects, PMO is expected to exercise close monitoring of status, to ensure that project risks and issues are adequately addressed in a timely manner by the project team.
• Continuously assess and improve the project governance model.
• Aligning with HO's project life cycle guidelines, explore any room to further improve existing APAC governance scheme.
• Uplift the Project Management capability in TIS, e.g., identifying knowledge gaps, socializing lessons learnt, curating PM training courses and certifications, etc.
• Re-engineer and/or streamline existing processes to make them fit-for-purpose.
• Leverage experience and knowledge as the TIS portfolio manager to support TIS strategic decision-making at the organization level.
• Lead the standardization and streamlining the monitoring and reporting on progress/status and issues.
• Facilitate the successful delivery of projects in the TIS portfolio but building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, project management teams, technical delivery teams, etc.

Job Requirements

• Minimum 15 years of IT Infrastructure experience, with experience in portfolio management and PMP certified.
• Experience in a wide variety of projects in the infrastructure space covering Data Centres, Hosting Platforms, Storage, Networks and End User Infrastructure.
• Experience in financial planning and finance reporting.
• Strategical mind set, experience in interacting with multiple stakeholders (Development Leads, Project Managers, senior stakeholders, business users, etc.)
• Proven track record with hands-on experience to deliver positive outcomes in ambiguous environments.
• Collaborative with a growth mindset
• Analytical, critical thinking skills
• Open-minded and innovative in exploring new and alternative solutions to optimize process, arriving at sound decisions and solutions.
• A strong leader who can communicate his/her ideas and views persuasively and sustain positive relationships with team members and other stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of financial practices in financial institutions.
• Experience in working in the multinational environment to understand the diversity and cultural differences.
• Excellent presentation skills to deliver messages to the audience both technical domain people and non-technical people.
• Strategic Thinking & Vision to achieve a clear PMO vision and mission, Align projects and programs with organizational strategy, Drive portfolio-level prioritization and value delivery.
• Introduce or refine standardized project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Safe, Waterfall, Hybrid). Implement governance models, risk management, and toll gates. Champion continuous improvement through retrospectives and KPIs.
• Implement modern PM tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet).
• Introduce automation in reporting, status updates, and dependency tracking.
• Enable real-time dashboards for stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships with C-suite, delivery, and business teams.
• Translate complex program data into clear business outcomes.
• Lead the team through organizational and operational change. Apply structured change frameworks, help teams adapt to new roles, technologies, or delivery models.
• Shift from activity/output tracking to business outcome measurement. Establish benefits realization frameworks. Promote data-driven decision-making.
• Required to collaborate and coordinate with Project Managers in different locations across APAC.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified.

Job ID:10070712