Strategic PMO Partner (Finance Excellence)

Job Description

APM Terminals

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At APM Terminals, a global leader in port and terminal operations, we enable global trade and drive sustainable growth. What drives us forward is a mindset of always improving — observing how work happens, identifying what creates value, and removing what gets in the way. We constantly look for smarter, simpler, and safer ways of operating. If you thrive in environments where people value learning and are committed to continuously improve daily operations, join us and be apart of our journey.

What We Can Offer

At APMT Terminals, we foster a dynamic learning and training culture that empowers our employees to excel. Our commitment to improvement is driven by Lean principles, ensuring that every team member has the opportunity to develop their skills and advance their careers. Experience a diverse, multinational workplace where your operational insights directly influence how we work.

• Work in a global role with exposure to senior Finance Leadership and cross-regional stakeholders

• Opportunity to drive strategic initiatives and tangible business outcomes within Finance Excellence

• Collaborative, international environment focused on continuous improvement and innovation

• Strong focus on professional development through hands-on project and stakeholder exposure

Key Responsibilities

• Drive structured planning, execution, and governance of finance transformation initiatives, ensuring clear milestones, ownership, and alignment with the overall roadmap

• Establish and maintain robust program management disciplines, including standardized methodologies, tools, and reporting frameworks across initiatives

• Provide end-to-end oversight of initiative progress, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and delivery gaps, and supporting timely resolution

• Partner closely with project managers and workstream leads to define business cases, success metrics, and implementation plans, ensuring consistency in execution approach

• Monitor initiative performance against plans (scope, timeline, outcomes), challenging assumptions and supporting course correction where needed

• Develop high-quality, insight-driven reporting for senior leadership, enabling transparency on progress, risks, resource utilization, and value delivery

• Support strategic planning processes, including transformation roadmap development, prioritization, and alignment with annual strategic direction

• Lead and coordinate change management activities across the transformation portfolio, including change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning

• Develop and drive communication strategies and materials to support transformation initiatives, ensuring clarity, consistency, and effective stakeholder engagement

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support successful implementation, embedding new ways of working and ensuring sustainable adoption of change

What We Are Looking For

• Transformation & execution mindset:

You bring a structured and disciplined approach to delivering complex initiatives, with the ability to translate strategic priorities into well-defined plans and tangible outcomes. You are comfortable operating across multiple initiatives, managing dependencies, and ensuring alignment between stakeholders to drive consistent delivery.

• Change management capability:

You understand that successful transformation goes beyond execution and requires effective adoption. You are able to assess change impacts, engage stakeholders at all levels, and support the implementation of new ways of working, ensuring that change is embedded and sustained over time.

• Collaboration & influence:

You thrive in a matrixed, international environment, building strong relationships across functions and geographies. You are able to navigate ambiguity, influence without formal authority, and align diverse stakeholders to a common direction.

• Leadership expectation:

We are looking for individuals who take ownership of delivering transformation outcomes, working collaboratively across teams and stakeholders to ensure aligned and disciplined execution. You lead by example through strong stakeholder engagement, clear communication, and a structured approach to problem-solving and delivery.

You are driven to deliver results in complex environments while maintaining a high standard of integrity and accountability, and you proactively identify and resolve challenges to keep initiatives on track.

You continuously strive to improve how we operate by strengthening processes, embedding new ways of working, and supporting others through change, ensuring that improvements are sustainable and fully adopted across the organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline with 5+ years of experience

• Strong PMO / project management experience in complex, fast-paced environments

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior leadership levels

• Strong financial acumen with ability to analyse data and translate insights into actionable outcomes

• Advanced skills in PowerPoint and Excel, with strong communication and presentation capabilities

Interested?

Do you recognize yourself in the above profile? We are looking forward to hear from you, please apply via our job portal.

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