Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Head of PMO to own and oversee our global project portfolio and drive execution excellence across the firm. Reporting directly to the COO, this role will be the driving force behind our global project portfolio, ensuring that our most important initiatives are prioritized, aligned, and delivered on time within budget, with measurable impact.
In a fast-paced high-frequency trading environment, you will enable cross-functional collaboration across technology, trading, risk, operations, and corporate functions. While pioneering the adoption of AI and agentic workflows to fundamentally elevate how we plan, govern, execute and report on projects.
The Head of PMO will work closely with senior leaders to bring clarity to complexity, foster strong cross-functional partnerships, enforce disciplined investment governance, and continuously evolve the PMO into an AI-augmented, data-driven strategic function.
This is a highly visible role with real impact on the firm’s sustainable growth, resilience, and long-term success.
What you will do:
- Own and manage the firm-wide project portfolio with full lifecycle governance - from business case intake through to ROI realization tracking.
- Act as the gatekeeper of the project portfolio: ensure every strategic initiative is supported by a high-quality business case with clear ROI targets, measurable success criteria, and defined value realization milestones.
- Set and maintain clear priorities aligned with business strategy, risk appetite, and capacity constraints.
- Drive delivery discipline, transparency, and measurable results.
- Champion the integration of AI, automation, and agentic workflows into all aspects of project management, reporting, and portfolio governance
- Enable cross-functional collaboration for complex, multi-department initiatives.
- Act as a strategic partner to the COO and senior leadership.
- Drive a culture of execution excellence and continuous improvement.
- Lead and develop a team of program managers, elevating their capabilities in both traditional and AI-enabled project delivery
What you need to succeed:
- 10+ years in PMO, portfolio management, strategy execution, or similar roles, preferably in financial services, trading, fintech, or technology-driven environments.
- A proven track record of leading complex, global portfolios and delivering meaningful business outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience managing and developing teams in a complex, fast-paced environment.
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to translate strategy into execution.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills at executive level.
- Deep expertise in project, program, and portfolio management frameworks, tools, and governance.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-accountability environments.
- AI-savviness, able to harness data and automation to drive operational excellence, streamline processes, and scale impact across the business
- Results-driven, structured, and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Collaborative, proactive, and able to influence without formal authority.
- Strong ownership mentality, resilience, and a relentless drive for improvement.
- Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or similar certifications are a plus.
At Flow Traders, we create the conditions for hard‑working, high‑performing people to do their best work. From a thorough onboarding and ongoing access to Flow Academy, to latest technology and a collaborative, non‑hierarchical culture, we give you the tools, ownership, and support to move fast and drive outcomes. We keep a close‑knit, small‑company feel while offering competitive salary, annual discretionary profit share, and comprehensive benefits, so talent can grow here, and stay here. See our benefits below:
- Flow Academy and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
- Daily catered lunch, great coffee, and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
- In-house Bar and Lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles
- Company boat
- In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
- Bi-weekly massages
- Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year, such as the New Years Event
- Global rotations across our offices worldwide
- and more
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders
Skills Required
- 10+ years in PMO, portfolio management, strategy execution, or similar roles
- Proven track record of leading complex, global portfolios
- Experience managing and developing teams
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Deep expertise in project, program, and portfolio management frameworks
- AI-savviness
- Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or similar certifications are a plus
What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
