Minor International (MINT) is a global company focused on three core businesses: restaurants, hospitality and lifestyle brands distribution. MINT is one of Asia’s largest restaurant companies with over 2,000 outlets operating system-wide in 19 countries under The Pizza Company, Swensen’s, Sizzler, Dairy Queen, Burger King, Thai Express, The Coffee Club, BreadTalk (Thailand) and Riverside brands. MINT is also a hotel owner, operator and investor with a portfolio of 155 hotels and serviced suites under the Anantara, AVANI, Oaks, Tivoli, Elewana Collection, JW Marriott, Four Seasons, St. Regis, Radisson Blu and Minor International brands in 24 countries across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Europe and South America. MINT is one of Thailand’s largest distributors of lifestyle brands focusing primarily on fashion, home and kitchenware and contract manufacturing. Its brands include Gap, Banana Republic, Brooks Brothers, Esprit, Bossini, Etam, Charles & Keith, Pedro, Radley, Anello, Zwilling J.A. Henckels, Joseph Joseph and ETL Learning. Bemynt is MINT’s e-commerce platform offering premium fashion and lifestyle products. For more information, please visit www.minorinternational.com.

The Sr. Project Manager/PMO Manager will be responsible for program/project delivery, projects/programs oversight, building Project Management capabilities as well as governing customization, rolling out and maintaining the PMO Portal, Project Management Tool / PMIS including all reporting/dashboards. The success candidate will be applying strong knowledge and extensive experience in Project Management, Vendor management, Programs/Projects governance and Work flows, and Project Management training and coaching capabilities. The job focus is to be self-driven in driving the project delivery and result, leading the project teams, building project/program management capabilities and governance across the groups/departments, governing proposition life cycle, and enhancing the projects/programs and delivery capabilities including executive management performance reporting/dashboards.

Project Delivery, PMO, Governance, Project/Program Oversight

- Execute and manage programs and projects from initiation to delivery.

• Oversight the projects/program of multiple key projects and their performance to ensure the compliance of project/program management methodologies/processes/policies and ensure the quality and success of projects/program delivery toward the projects/program goals and objectives
• Develop and maintain program/project management methodologies, standards, tools, and templates
• Provide project management expertise and advisory to project teams
• Initiate the improvement areas and develop the process flow
• Audit project completion and adherence to methodology / framework

PMO Portal and PPM Tool/PMIS

• Act as the system owner and focal point of the PMO Portal, Project and Portfolio Management tool / Project Management Information System
• Identify and align key project management workflows, approval types/levels, legal & audit requirements, milestones & templates per major project type and complexity.
• Embed into the online PPM tool/PMIS and ensure that comparable reporting can be made across all project types
• Deliver and maintain PMO portal and project repository for PMO and PM community
• Build PPM tool/PMIS development plan reflecting the very different Project Management capacity levels as well as the varying tool requirements for e.g. simple vs. complex project types etc. Reporting and dashboard will be possible to aggregate.
• Act as a change agent to implement and provide training of PPM tool/PMIS to stakeholders/users.
• Drive compliance to the PPM tool/PMIS.
• Measure and drive user acceptance and satisfaction with the PPM tool.

Project Management Capability building / Organizational Learning

• Design and conduct all Project Management training/coaching including materials and coordination with our internal training organization.
• Design, coordinate, and  organize knowledge sharing sessions with project managers and external training providers

Program/Project Management reporting

• Actively monitor project performance and prepare various reports to report project health, key risks/issues and coordinate with IT directors and project managers/teams to facilitate all follow up action. 
• Identify the key Project performance reporting requirements, organizational reporting layers as well as requirement for program/project management reporting and dashboard.
• Design and embed reporting requirements into the PPM tool/PMIS.
• Drive data integrity & completeness including update frequency for all projects/programs in the PPM tool/PMIS and report on compliance, usage and lack of same.

Education

•   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field. International Exposure. Master’s Degree is preferred.
•   PMP Certification is preferred
•   Agile experience and Agile Project Management are considered an advantage.
•   ITIL Certification is considered an advantage

Work Experience
 
•   Minimum 10 years progressive experience in Project/Program Management including all aspects of project initiation, planning, delivery, deployment and projects/program oversight.
•   Proven track record of successfully delivering the medium to large projects in both local and global perimeters.
•   Experience creating and managing Project Management Office for non-IT and/or IT projects
•   Experience in PMIS, Portfolio and project management tool/solution implementation is a plus.
•   Experience with Project Management workshop facilitation, training/coaching
•   Experience in process improvement
•   Experience with vendor management and performance management
•   Fluent in English both written & spoken.
•   Good interpersonal skill, excellent communicator with all levels. 
•   Good organizational skill and self motivated.
•   Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
•   Ability to foster trusting relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
•   Proven ability to work creatively and analytically.