Head of Business Support

Location: Doha, Qatar 

• The Head of Business Support is responsible for providing leadership, governance, and assurance over the Project Management System (PMS), Audit & Self-Assessment, Risk & Issues management, and Lessons Learned functions. 

Key Job Accountabilities   Provide leadership and governance for Project Management Systems, Audit & Self-Assessment, Risks & Issues Management, and Lessons Learned across all offshore projects. Oversee the implementation, compliance, and continuous improvement of Project Management Systems (PMS), policies, procedures, and tools. Ensure effective planning, execution, and quality of project reviews and stage-gate processes in line with company requirements. Lead enterprise and project risk management activities, ensuring risks and issues are identified, assessed, mitigated, and escalated appropriately. Ensure contractor compliance with company project governance, PMS, and risk management requirements. Champion Lessons Learned management, ensuring insights are captured, communicated, and embedded into future project execution. Develop, maintain, and govern the Project Management System (PMS) roadmap, ensuring it clearly defines project’s deliverables at each gate. Establish, maintain, and enforce the Deliverables Responsibilities & Authority Matrix (DRAM) across all projects, ensuring roles and accountabilities are clearly defined, understood, agreed, and consistently applied to support effective planning, execution, and decision-making. Ensure all PMS?related deliverables are comprehensively planned, scheduled, tracked, and controlled to ensure timely completion of all deliverables in accordance with PMS policy requirements and the Deliverables Responsibilities & Authority Matrix (DRAM). Ensure any deviation from Project Management System (PMS) policy is formally justified, documented, recorded, and approved through appropriate governance and change?control mechanisms such as decision records, waivers, or equivalent governance processes. Qualifications (mandatory) 

• Bachelors’ Degree in Engineering, Project Management or Business Administration.

Knowledge and/or Experience

• 10 years experience in business related function or discipline, including 6 years in the Oil & Gas Industry, and including 2 years experience in a supervisory role, or oversight of contractor/subcontractors/service/vendor personnel.
• Strong knowledge in project business related function/discipline such as planning, risk management, change management, projects management, support services, lessons learned, etc.
• Experience managing business functions/discipline.
• Extensive knowledge in international standards, best practices and methodologies as it relates to business disciplines.
• SME level competence in Projects Management Systems.
• Experience with risk assessment approach in decision making.
• Strong knowledge of relevant software and computer skills, e.g., dashboards, data analytics, SAP, Power BI etc.
• Experience working in large scale organizations in Operations, Projects, Subsurface, etc.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Interested candidates are encouraged to send their CV to mahirah.marisa@airswift.com to apply or learn more.

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