Senior Director, Head of PMO

About FWD Group

FWD Group is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves approximately 30 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the stock code 1828.

For more information, please visit www.fwd.com

About FWD Life Philippines 

FWD Life Insurance Corporation (FWD Life Philippines) launched its commercial operations in September 2014. As of end-2022, FWD Life Philippines ranks 3rd and 6th in terms of Paid-up Capital(1) and New Business Annual Premium Equivalent(2), respectively.

For more information, please visit fwd.com.ph. 

1 www.insurance.gov.ph > Statistics > Life > 2022 > Based on Paid-Up Capital

2 www.insurance.gov.ph > Statistics > Life > 2022 > Based on New Business Annual Premium Equivalent

The primary purpose of a Head of Project Management Office (PMO) is to lead and oversee all Project Managers in managing FWD strategic initiatives. He/She makes sure that all projects are aligned with FWD’s yearly business plans and executed efficiently. He/She monitor and report the performance of projects & portfolios, ensuring to meet their goals. Enforce FWD’s project management framework and use best practices.

Integrates Project Initiatives and FWD Strategic Plans

Assigns Project Managers to various Strategic projects and ensuring alignment with FWD’s Project Management governance framework

Analyzes portfolio updates and prepares the necessary reports for portfolio monitoring and stakeholder communication

Manage project repositories and other non-project related folders or sites and provides user access for such sites

Monitors team and project budgets and expenditures and analyses variances to achieve financial metrics

Helps identify issues/risks like resource constraints, project delays and recommends solutions to the concerned project managers

Experience:
Bachelor's Degree or in lieu 10+ more years of relevant experience
PMP, Agile Scrum/PSM certifications are most welcome
Minimum 10+ years of experience in managing projects and/or information technology business
Experience with program/projects in multiple technologies, functions and industries
Excellent executive presence and experience creating/delivering executive presentations in MS PowerPoint
Experience managing teams that are geographically distributed and culture
Excellent written and oral communication skills. Sound judgment and conflict resolution skills

Privacy Notice

Your privacy is a priority for FWD.  The Company keeps your personal information with us in confidence. To know more about how we process your information, kindly refer to our FWD Recruitment Privacy Notice.

FWD has partnered with Talocity Instasolutions Private Limited (“Talocity”) to manage the initial filtering of candidate’s profiles through video interviews, social profile mapping, and video analytics using artificial intelligence engine that is offered within the Talocity platform.  The platform evaluates the candidate on the five well-known dimensions as per OCEAN Personality Model that influence occupational success and help understand workplace behavior. For more information, please refer to Talocity Privacy Policy.

When you apply, FWD will share your name, phone number and email address to Talocity to contact you and conduct the initial screening and profiling process.  Shortlisted candidates will then be contacted by FWD for the face-to-face interview.