About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Purpose of the Job</H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To act as a strategic partner to regional leadership, the Strategy and PMO Manager plays a key role in shaping and executing the regional strategy by managing performance insights and KPIs across Asia Pacific, while leading the delivery of strategic initiatives through strong governance, ensuring alignment with Aramex’s goals for operational excellence, innovation, and sustainable growth.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Description</H2> </div><div><ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Support and lead the development of the regional strategy by translating long term business goals into strategic initiatives across functions, countries, regions and products</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Develop and manage business KPIs in order to facilitate analysis and reporting of performance against plans and budgets as well as strategic objectives</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Build weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual performance reports for the business leaders as well as facilitating cross-functional performance reviews for leadership</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assist regional/country leaders and managers in driving and optimizing improvement of key value levers to provide the business a sustainable competitive advantage</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Collaborate with market intelligence team to provide insights and strategic direction recommendation and facilitation to regions/countries by benchmarking performance with market and industry peers</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lead the PMO in Asia Pacific to ensure standardized project management practices</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of high-impact projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Develop and implement governance models to monitor project performance, risk, and compliance</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Collaborate with the regional team to prioritize and allocate resources effectively across projects</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Analyze project data to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for process improvement</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lead the implementation of project management tools and systems to enhance efficiency and reporting</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Provide the necessary training and facilitating skills to drive transformation activities and ensure long term adoption</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Develop and employ strategies to bring alignment and true partnership between all concerned departments such as finance, technology, and business stakeholders</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Leads project quality and post-mortem functions to mitigate and address project delivery challenges in the support of continuous improvement efforts</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Requirements - Experience and Education</H2> </div><div><ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Strategy or a related field</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5+ years relevant experience in leading market analysis and reporting for different products and service offerings; Consulting background is preferred, T&L experience is a plus</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ability to analyze data and provide insights and develop projections/forecasts in different areas of the business</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proficiency in developing analytical presentations reports</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proven experience managing large-scale, cross-functional projects in a global environment</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) and tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">PMP, PRINCE2, or other relevant certification is highly desirable</span></li> </ul></div></div></div>