Ahmad AlNahhaal
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
Summary
With over a decade of extensive PMO experience across diverse industries in both the public and private sectors in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, I've gained the capability to develop and upgrade the most suitable decision-making support business model and its functions to empower organizational missions.
Here's my career summary:
- Worked in KSA for 11 years, and Egypt for 4 Years. - Most of the missions are in Management offices at portfolio and programme levels, in the public and private sectors; Played key roles in decision-making support that led to the successful delivery of benefits, and accelerated the approach to strategy realization.
- Holding Certificates in/as [P3O from Axelos], [PMP from PMI], [MBA Essentials from IBMI], [6Sigma Yellow Belt, SFC, NCN.A from VMEdu], and [Marketing Management Diploma from Dr. Ehab Musallam].
- Pursuing certificates in/as [MSP from Axelos] and [PgMP, RMP, PBA from PMI]. - My MBTI Personality Classification test is [ESTJ] 'Executive'. - Challenging assignments level up my skills and career.
Appreciate your time reviewing my profile, and pleased to discuss potential opportunities. Let's make a new success story together
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certification
Work History
Senior Consulting Manager - PMO
National Center for Environmental Compliance-NCEC
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
06.2024 - Current
- Led the end-to-end development and restructuring of the Enterprise PMO, including organization design, roles and responsibilities definition, KPIs development, governance frameworks, and operating model enhancement.
- Played a pivotal role in helping PMs deliver their projects more effectively, improving overall project success rates and aligning project outcomes with strategic objectives.
- Provided hands-on support and mentorship to PMO staff and Project Managers (PMs), significantly elevating their project, program, and portfolio management skills, with a focus on effective risk and issue management, planning, and execution.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive PMO guide, including processes, procedures, functions, services, governance frameworks, tools, templates, and guidelines to drive operational excellence and consistency across projects, programs, and portfolios.
- Strengthened the PMO's credibility and trust with the steering committee, and enhanced the integration and satisfaction of PMO services across internal departments (example: VRO, EXPRO, ADAA).
- Fostered a culture of continuous improvement, stakeholder collaboration, and value-driven project delivery, positioning the PMO as a trusted strategic partner within the organization.
Senior Manager
Protiviti
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
06.2024 - Current
Managing Director
T.A.B.S
Riyadh
03.2023 - 03.2024
- Director of the management services sector in T.A.B.S. The sector has two areas of services: Enterprise management services, which include: Management Offices Development [PMO-SMO-CMO-BMO-DMO] - Strategic Planning - Portfolio Support - COE Development [Centre Of Excellence] - Enterprise management software and AI solutions - Feasibility Studies - Internal Processes Development - ISO Qualification.
- Delivery Support Services, which include: Planning - Risk Management - Information Management - Monitor and control - IT Support - Resource Management - Performance Monitoring - Reporting - Change Control - Financial and commercial Processes Support - Quality Assurance - Transition Management - and Benefits Management.
PMO Manager
Saudi Electronic University
Riyadh
02.2022 - 01.2023
- Company Overview: Client: The Saudi Electronic University [SEU]
- Managing the IT projects' portfolio.
- Supporting Decision-Making for the rest of the university investment portfolios, by providing portfolio planning, delivery support, and contributing to COE for management processes, procedures, guidelines, and policies.
- Client: The Saudi Electronic University [SEU]
Senior Manager
BACE PARTNERS
Riyadh
02.2022 - 01.2023
PMO Advisor
Saudi Water Authority
Riyadh
06.2019 - 06.2020
- Company Overview: Client: SWCC (Saline Water Conversion Corp.)
- Assuring that capital projects' management is well-governed at project, program, and portfolio levels.
- Provide specialist hands-on support for TAP-PMO regarding project management processes, procedures, policies and standards, tools, and techniques. Facilitate governance meetings at the portfolio level.
- Monitor TAP-PMO dashboards; advise about performance and decision-making data quality.
- Track progress through KPIs to assess and improve TAP sector and TAP-PMO performance.
- Scan the horizon for impending strategy or policy changes that may impact the composition of the portfolio, and communicate an impact analysis to the EPMO.
- Provide decision and governance support by Regularly reviewing the appropriateness and deliverability of the portfolio.
- Support TAP-PMO regarding portfolio risks and issues and response actions. Review the relative business priorities and risk profiles, and escalate issues to the strategy board.
- Coordinate information about how TAP-PMO and projects run the standard management method, and their progress and problems.
- Ensure compliance with EPMO-COE standards, knowledge management, and information management processes.
- Keep abreast of international trends to identify best practices.
- Client: SWCC (Saline Water Conversion Corp.)
Manager Project Management
Jacobs
Riyadh
06.2019 - 06.2020
Senior Project Control Manager
Bureau Veritas Group
Riyadh
03.2017 - 03.2018
- Worked with 'Management Assistance Department'.
- Project: Riyadh Metro Project - BACS consortium [Bechtel, AlMabani, CCC, Siemens] - steelworks for Lines' 1&2 Bridges.
- Client: SAFID Co. (acting as SAFID Project planner at BACS consortium).
- Project Budget: 10B USD. SAFID Scope Budget: 74M USD.
- Reporting To: SAFID project director. And BACS planning department.
PMO Manager
Rashid Saad AlRashid & Sons Co. (RSR)
Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
03.2016 - 03.2017
- Act as Owner PMO. Supporting decision-making for the 'Construction Management Sector' portfolio to maximize benefits from Real Estate projects and align them with the sector's business goals.
- Facilitating the 'Alternatives Analysis' process and defining the final product's requirements.
- Improving procurement (tendering/contracting) and reducing their time by coordinating with the technical team to make contractors' selection much more efficient. Raising program organizational maturity by establishing and refining the organizational standard process and procedures, policies, guidelines, tools, and techniques, and developing lessons learned register.
- Reducing projects' duration and expenses by monitoring and controlling projects' progress including time and cost control.
- Reduced a plaza project from 13 to 8.5 M in budget, and from 12 to 8 months with all quality guarantees and risk reserves.
PMO Assistant Manager
Ministry of Municipalities and Housing
Riyadh
11.2015 - 03.2016
- Participated in developing the i-Scope Application for Riyadh Region Municipality (a simple PMIS/PMO tool) as follows: Assuring the verification and validation of required data and delivered information, and addressing correction methodology. Developing Quality Indexes to measure the system's data quality. Establishing a coding system. Developing system deliverables.
PMO Change Portfolio Analyst
ALMUHAID CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Riyadh
03.2015 - 03.2016
- The main Mission was to centralize the management of the company departments and level up the organizational maturity to be capable of handling complex and large-scale consultancy projects.
- Evaluating and helping to implement process improvements to improve department workflow and more effective delivery of projects.
- Design and support governance/reporting for projects. Design, challenge, and agree on management dashboards.
- Implement guidelines, procedures, and templates to collect and maintain consistent data and provide hands-on delivery support to departments.
- Provide an aggregated analysis of gated reviews to the CEO. Assure the overall integrity and coherence of the portfolio. Improving the bidding's' financial study.
- Analyzing the portfolio and making recommendations on the assignments mix to the CEO. Controlling the process of qualifying, tendering, and bidding.
PMO Project Portfolio Analyst
Al-Masar Al-Hadeeth company Ltd.
Najran
03.2013 - 03.2015
- Facilitate the management of an optimized portfolio, ensuring senior management decisions lead to the fulfillment of strategic objectives through the delivery of programs and projects.
- Balance/optimize the portfolio in terms of strategic goal attainment vs. delivery capacity/ capability and BAU priorities. Facilitate governance/portfolio meetings.
- Ensure compliance with management standards, processes, and procedures.
- Provide decision and governance support by Regularly reviewing the appropriateness and deliverability of the portfolio, Reviewing the relative business priorities and risk profiles, and escalating issues to the strategy board.
- Develop standard processes, procedures, guidelines, and templates. Develop and maintain a portfolio resource schedule, mapping available resources against projects.
- Develop and maintain KPIs for the portfolio.
- Evaluate and help to implement process improvements to improve project workflow and more effective delivery.
- Ensure compliance with Information management and Knowledge management across the portfolio.
- Provide a strategic overview of all projects and interdependencies, reporting anomalies or areas of concern to the board of directors.
Project Management Officer
Alshams For Contracting
Cairo
09.2010 - 03.2013
- Responsible for Time, Cost, and Quality control in the project. Dealing with government officials about work progress and payment clearances.
Education
Bachelor of Science - BSc - Civil Engineering
Zagazig University
Egypt 09.2005 - 05.2010
Skills
- Strategy Consulting
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Decision-Making expertise
- Corporate governance understanding
- Business development
- Training and Development
- Project portfolio management
- Agile project management
- Change management
- Reporting management
- Strategy execution
- Leadership development
- Scheduling expertise
- Continuous Improvement implementation
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Custom
- Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
- Cairo, Egypt
- Al Ahsa, Eastern, Saudi Arabia
- Najran, Saudi Arabia
Languages
Arabic
Native
English
Fluent
French
Elementary
Certification
- PMP-PMI
- P3O-Axelos
- SFC-VMEdu
- NCN.A-VMEdu
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Consulting Manager - PMO
National Center for Environmental Compliance-NCEC
06.2024 - Current
Senior Manager
Protiviti
06.2024 - Current
Managing Director
T.A.B.S
03.2023 - 03.2024
PMO Manager
Saudi Electronic University
02.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Manager
BACE PARTNERS
02.2022 - 01.2023
PMO Advisor
Saudi Water Authority
06.2019 - 06.2020
Manager Project Management
Jacobs
06.2019 - 06.2020
Senior Project Control Manager
Bureau Veritas Group
03.2017 - 03.2018
PMO Manager
Rashid Saad AlRashid & Sons Co. (RSR)
03.2016 - 03.2017
PMO Assistant Manager
Ministry of Municipalities and Housing
11.2015 - 03.2016
PMO Change Portfolio Analyst
ALMUHAID CONSULTING ENGINEERS
03.2015 - 03.2016
PMO Project Portfolio Analyst
Al-Masar Al-Hadeeth company Ltd.
03.2013 - 03.2015
Project Management Officer
Alshams For Contracting
09.2010 - 03.2013
Bachelor of Science - BSc - Civil Engineering
Zagazig University
09.2005 - 05.2010
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