PMO (Project Management Office) Senior Manager
Alkhorayef Commercial Co. (ACC) & Alkhorayef Industries Co.
Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months
Designation Chronology:
• September 2023 - Present: PMO Senior Manager - Alkhorayef Commercial Co & Alkhorayef Industries Co.
• Dec 2016 - August 2023: PMO (Project Management Office) Manager
• Jan 2013 - Nov 2016: Quality System Manager
Accomplishments:
• Head-hunted to command the PMO initiatives for two main companies of the Alkhorayef Group
• Alkhorayef Commercial Co., which distributes a wide range of top-quality machinery imported from all around the world.
• Alkhorayef Industries Co., which manufactures leading industrial, agricultural, and irrigation equipment around the world.
• Elected as Board Secretary for both companies, provided Governance and Company Law advice to ensure the organization has an appropriate governance framework in place to protect strategic, operational, reputational, and financial risk.
• Key Member of multiple esteemed committees in the Alkhorayef Group.
• Strategy Committee
• Quality Assurance Committee
• Investment Committee
• Earned a series of promotions due to assertive leadership and a strong record of value-added contributions.
• Proffered Strategic Project Management Office leadership, led the way into a new future for the companies, inspiring the next generation of driven and committed people in the process.
• Instrumental in steering planning initiatives towards the accomplishment of organizational goals & vision pertaining to the overall execution of the Corporate Strategy.
• Employed long-term vision, built/enhanced new structure PMO processes & governance to scale with the business. Ownership of managing scope inside and outside KSA.
• Served as an internal think-tank and proffered strategic advice on optimizing operations- established and implemented operation plans, directed resources to enhance operations, business development & service.
• Balanced Scorecard Expert, served as a trusted advisor and counselor for driving significant breakthrough results in improving organizational performance.
Key Responsibilities:
PMO Excellence - Establishing roadmap and PMO best practices.
• Commanding the Program Management Office with accountability to deliver consistent, high-quality projects, programs, and portfolio, which meets organizational goals and requirements.
• Establishing end-to-end PMO framework to manage the scope, time, quality, and cost of the program.
Strategic Initiatives
• Exhibiting a strong commitment to leadership, strategic management, performance analysis and continuous improvement.
• Acting as a driving force in shaping the organization’s project management culture and developing a world-class program management organization.
• Fueling innovation and accelerating transformations to attain desired business outcomes.
Project, Program and Portfolio Championship:
• Portfolio management, including project selection & prioritization, managing interdependencies between and among projects that can only be seen from the perspective of a strategic view.
• Providing strategic guidance on monitoring and controlling technical CAPEX and OPEX budget and their KPIs.
• Ensuring Enterprise invests in the best set of projects and programs and endeavoring to optimize ROI for investments whilst enhancing competitive differentiation.
People Leadership
• Contributing to knowledge championing and sharing across the organization.
• Serving as a Stealth Leader, Synergist, and Culture Builder- who sets clear strategic objectives, and motivates teams to deliver exceptional results.
Accomplishments as Quality System Manager (Jan 2013 - Nov 2016):
• Ownership of Quality Management provided expert advice on best practices, covering quality systems, strategy and planning.
• Played a key role in establishing an Integrated Management System in ACC and securing registration certificates from Intertek, a leading certification body ISO9001:2015, ISO14001:2015 and OHSAS18001:2007.
• HSSEQ Expert, Lead Auditor, recognized for sustaining a zero-incident culture.
Designation Chronology:
• Aug 2008 - Dec 2012: Assistant Project Manager
• Oct 2006 - Aug 2008: GAS Mechanical Engineer, Operations Division
Accomplishments:
• Instrumental in planning, controlling, executing, and closing Natural gas projects in the Northern Region, Egypt
• Hand-selected for the establishment of 3 major projects, entailing - Technical, Construction, Recruitment, Administration, and Budgeting.
Key Responsibilities:
• Decision-making responsibility for scheduling activities to ensure projects are on schedule and identifying schedule issues, opportunities & corrective actions to mitigate potential delays.
• Developed detailed schedules and plans for assigned projects. Ownership for attaining scope, schedule, resource, and budget commitments reflected in the Project/ Program Management Plan.
• Developed and monitored project cost forecasts. Ascertained optimal usage of all available resources to execute delivery as per schedule and within budgeted overheads.
• Applied high-end project management concepts like critical path management based on PERT, material and human resource management in planning and scheduling to meet deadlines.
• Generated weekly and monthly reports for the outline progress construction phases and chaired meetings to review project progress and quality aspects.
• Devised strategies to overcome roadblocks/ delays, leveraged industry-related technical knowledge, innovated shortcuts/alternative ways, improvised with available resources, and scheduled overtime to meet the deadline.
• Enforced adherence to quality standards such as ISO 9001: 2008. Embedded a learning culture of Health and Safety management, identifying HSSEQ training needs, and monitoring the delivery and recording.
Natural Gas projects include PE networks pipelines distribution, commissioning paths, Installations with steel pipelines, purging with natural gas and Appliances to be converted.
Master Degree of Business Administration (MBA), Project Management Major, 2012
B.Sc. in Mechanical Power Engineering Alexandria University, 2006