The Hague
8 Apr 2026
Senior PMO Specialist
APM Terminals
The Hague
8 Apr 2026
Senior PMO Specialist
Senior PMO Specialist role at APM Terminals in The Hague, focusing on project and change delivery governance, quality assurance, and coaching. Requires 8-12+ years in project/portfolio management and strong understanding of delivery frameworks, risk management, and change principles.
On-siteFull-timeSeniorPortfolio ManagementProject Management
Senior PMO Specialist
Senior PMO Specialist role at APM Terminals in The Hague, focusing on project and change delivery governance, quality assurance, and coaching. Requires 8-12+ years in project/portfolio management and strong understanding of delivery frameworks, risk management, and change principles.
On-siteFull-timeSeniorPortfolio Management
Salary
Not specified
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Portfolio managementProject managementChange managementTransformation deliveryDelivery frameworksRisk managementDependency managementFinancial planningResource planningQuality review
Soft Skills
Executive-level communicationSystems thinkingPattern recognitionPragmatic judgementFacilitationCoachingCredibilityCollaborationContinuous improvementProblem solving
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
AgileWaterfallHybrid
Key Responsibilities
- Establish, maintain, and continuously improve project and change delivery standards, frameworks, and templates
- Perform independent quality reviews (health checks, gate reviews, deep dives) on projects
- Escalate delivery risks and patterns to the Transformation Office leadership and relevant forums
- Support recovery actions without taking over delivery
- Challenge delivery plans, assumptions, risks, and dependencies to protect value
- Provide integrated portfolio-level insights across cost, progress, risk, capacity, and benefits
- Identify systemic delivery issues, cross-project dependencies, and change saturation risks
- Support portfolio and steering forums with decision-oriented material
- Act as a trusted sparring partner for senior project and change managers
- Coach project managers/ change leads and business owners in execution, practical delivery disciplines and change leadership
- Maintain and evolve project and change management standards
- Own and evolve the project and change management toolbox (methods, tools, templates)
- Drive pragmatic adoption of ways of working across business and change projects
- Capture lessons learned from reviews and transformations
- Translate patterns into improvements in frameworks, tools, and training
- Collaborate with Strategy Office, Value Realization Office, Transformation Leads, Business Owners, Finance, IT/OT, and BPM
- Act as an integrator between governance, execution, and business reality
- Require project quality checks for in-scope initiatives
- Recommend corrective actions and escalation
- Challenge definition of done, scope, timelines, resourcing, and financial assumptions
- Escalate delivery risks and systemic issues through Transformation Office leadership
Project ManagementPMOTransformationLogisticsSupply ChainPortfolio ManagementChange ManagementGovernanceQuality AssuranceCoaching