Overview We are looking for a Strategic PMO Lead to join our Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence organization (DAAI) to drive governance, execution transparency, and cross-functional coordination across the DAAI organization to ensure innovation initiatives are steered in a disciplined, decision-ready, and operationally aligned manner. The Strategic PMO Lead executes administrative tasks and ensures overall leadership alignment — acting as the operational backbone of the DAAI organization and enabling our strategic program, AI Nexus, to run with clarity, discipline, and speed. You will join our newly created Office of DAAI department.
How You’ll Make an Impact Governance & Steering
Governance leadership: Run the management drumbeat across the DAAI organization, including core cadences, steering routines, and escalation mechanisms
PMO standards: Establish clear governance standards, templates, and reporting logic across the build setup
Executive alignment preparation: Prepare decision-ready materials, alignment topics, and recommendation points for senior leadership forums
Execution Transparency & Reporting
Management reporting: Ensure concise and reliable (financial) reporting on progress, key risks, decisions required, and overall initiative status for leadership stakeholders
Partner with Finance/Controlling to manage DAAI budgets, forecasts, and investment cases
Track and report on business value realization, not just delivery milestones
Progress transparency: Ensure clear visibility on milestones, critical dependencies, delivery health, and key execution risks
Risk and issue coordination incl. escalation: Identify, structure, and drive resolution of cross-functional risks, issues, and blockers for the DAAI organization
Cross-Functional Coordination & Planning
Cross-functional orchestration: align business, product, tech and delivery stakeholders around priorities, actions, and decisions
Planning discipline: Maintain integrated plans, track key actions, and ensure follow-through against agreed timelines and commitments
Build-to-run coordination: Support readiness tracking and alignment for handover into run where relevant
Your Background Education & Experience
Master's degree in Business Administration, Information Management, Project Management, or a related field
Extensive 8–10+ years of experience in PMO, program management, or governance roles in complex, multinational, cross-functional organizational environments
Commitment to ongoing professional development through certifications, conferences, or courses in program management and digital transformation
Strategic & Technical Acumen
Strategic program management: Strong experience in steering complex initiatives with high management attention and cross-functional dependencies
Technology fluency: Solid understanding of digital, data, and AI contexts to credibly support coordination in a build environment
Governance and drumbeat management: Proven capability to run effective steering cadences, alignment routines, and escalation processes
Planning and tracking discipline: Strong capability in milestone tracking, action management, and integrated execution follow-up
Risk and issue management: Structured approach to identifying, prioritizing, and resolving execution risks and blockers
Structured problem solving: Strong analytical and organizational skills with a pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset
Leadership & Influence
Executive communication: Ability to distill complexity into sharp messages, decision papers, and senior management updates
Stakeholder coordination: Strong ability to align senior business and technology stakeholders in dynamic delivery environments
Note : This description reflects the responsibilities and qualifications of the role as described in the original posting. We remove promotional sections that do not detail job responsibilities or requirements.
Job type Full time
Experience Management
Job function Project | Program Management
Contract Regular
Publication date 2026-04-24
Reference number R0127609
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