Head of Project Management Office

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Strategy, the PMO Manager governs TVH’s enterprise project portfolio, standardizes project management frameworks, and drives value realization. The role balances strategic portfolio orchestration, including Jira ownership, stage-gating, capacity planning, and risk management, with hands-on delivery of flagship initiatives and coaching of the project management community.

Operating with shared accountability alongside business sponsors and Global Process Owners (GPOs), this leader ensures cross-functional alignment, resource optimization, and measurable ROI across all transformation streams.

Your role and responsibilities

• Portfolio Governance & Funnel Management: Govern the enterprise project portfolio through its entire lifecycle, maintaining centralized visibility, enforcing stage-gate protocols, and actively challenging pipeline priorities to ensure alignment with long-term strategic goals.
• Methodology, Tools & Reporting: Establish, standardize, and continuously refine project management methodologies, templates, and best practices across TVH. Act as the owner of TVH’s project management toolset (Jira), defining workflows, standards, and executive dashboards.
• Capacity Planning & Value Realization: Facilitate integrated IT, Data, and business capacity planning to prevent bottlenecking. Challenge project scopes, business cases, and ROI assumptions prior to approval, and track post-implementation benefits capture.
• Cross-Functional Dependency & Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage cross-project interdependencies, shared resources, and cross-functional stakeholders. Maintain the portfolio risk register and drive proactive mitigation strategies across business units.
• Flagship Delivery & Community Leadership: Directly lead high-profile strategic initiatives when required while elevating organizational delivery maturity by mentoring, coaching, and upskilling the internal Project Manager community.
• Executive Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate ongoing communication, governance reviews, and decision-making forums between Executive Leadership (GMT), business sponsors, and project delivery teams.

How to succeed / Your profile

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent through practical experience).
• 5 years of experience in project, program, or portfolio management within a global or PMO environment.
• Proven track record in strategic portfolio governance, stage-gate processes, and capacity planning across Business, IT, and Data.
• Experience with Jira is a plus. 
• Assertive and constructive mindset with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders on business cases, ROI assumptions, and project prioritization.
• Experience in coaching and elevating the maturity of project management teams.
• Excellent communication, executive presentation, and change management skills.

What's in it for you

You will become part of a people-oriented company where your well-being really matters. Flexible working hours, work from home possibilities, 20 days holiday and 12 WTR days within a 40-hour week. At our headquarters you will also discover our TVH Park, a green area where you can move around and have the possibility to relax, meet or have lunch. Furthermore, we also offer:

• An attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits such as group and hospitalization insurance, luncheon vouchers, corporate restaurant, ...
• An exciting position in an international company with a family atmosphere where people are at the center.
• You are part of a dynamic entrepreneurial team that is fast-growing and at the center of the transformation.
• You arrive in an innovative, progressive and technological environment.
• Numerous opportunities for personal development, among other things through permanent guidance and professional (internal/external) training courses.
• Fun afterworks and other optional events (e.g. TVH Kaffee).

People are at our heart

TVH is a global business with a family atmosphere, where people are at the center. We value clarity, mutual respect, kindness and open communication. Our people are down-to-earth, easy to work and engage with. We welcome differences and celebrate new ideas.

About TVH

TVH is a parts specialist for quality parts and accessories for material handling, industrial vehicles, and construction and agricultural equipment. Working at TVH is opting for a company that excels as an international market leader and is well-known for its unstoppable craving for innovation.

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