Director, Regional Project Management Office

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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.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.