Location: Dubai, UAE (Hybrid)
Reports to: Global PMO Lead
About the role
This role exists to help build and embed a fit-for-purpose PMO capability for the Emerging Markets (EM) business, enabling disciplined execution of innovation and portfolio priorities at pace and with quality.
As Flora Food Group continues to scale consumer-led innovation across regions, the Emerging Markets business requires stronger orchestration across Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations. The PMO Manager will act as a foundational builder of this capability: setting up robust ways of working, driving executional discipline, and ensuring projects land on time, in full, and with clear accountability.
This role is critical to reducing execution risk, improving speed-to-market, and freeing up functional leaders to focus on content and decision-making rather than coordination.
What you’ll do
Operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, you will help establish an Emerging Markets PMO operating/ framework model aligned to global P&P / PMO standards, while tailored to local business realities.
You will bring consistency, transparency and rigor to how innovation and portfolio initiatives are planned, governed and delivered, and act as the single point of truth for execution status, risks and delivery confidence across the EM innovation and portfolio agenda.
You will act as the executional backbone for end-to-end project & activity management, by owning the planning and orchestration of priority innovation and portfolio initiatives, ensuring cross-functional teams’ ownership and accountability to deliver against clear timelines, milestones and decision gates.
You will improve delivery confidence, resource visibility and decision quality across the EM portfolio by ensuring high-quality data, discipline and follow-through in portfolio & project management systems. You will act as a role model for execution discipline, pragmatic problem-solving and collaborative leadership; and you will help to build the EM PMO capability over time, including a small team, templates/tools, playbooks and best practices, as the EM hub scales.
What this role is (and is not)
You will be accountable for execution and orchestration, not for project content ownership. Project leadership and strategic direction will remain with the Marketing / Business leads; this role ensures the work lands.
You are biased toward action, clarity and simplification — not to add bureaucracy.
What does it take to be successful
You combine strong project management fundamentals with the confidence to operate in complex, cross-functional FMCG environments. You are comfortable building structure where it does not yet exist, and you bring calm, clarity and momentum to ambiguous situations.
What’s next?
Flora Food Group is committed to culinary essentials for better food. We believe fewer, better ideas — executed with excellence — are what drive sustainable growth.
This is a career-defining opportunity to work with our high-impact brands in a high-energy, high-accountability environment. If you recognise yourself in this profile, apply and be part of this exciting journey. Apply now at www.florafoodgroup.com.We prefer to receive your application before 25th June 2026
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
The driving force behind our success are the circa 4,700 Flora Foodies who live our purpose every day and are engaged in our mission, delivering through our values of Performance, Care and Passion. Results Matter. With an ‘Always Day 1 mindset’. Always one step ahead, driven by data, with a finger on the pulse – our customers and consumers are at the heart. We identify the sweet spot; we relish challenge; we own it. We're agile decision-makers, with the courage to pivot, we sometimes fail fast - but learn even faster. Kindness wins. With a long-term focus on building a sustainable future, Flora Foodies show the 'Courage to Care' for each other, our communities, and the next generation. We believe in doing the right thing and 'Come As You Are' is not just a saying; it's an invitation to be authentic and bring your whole, true self to work. Difference brings angles and ideas to the party – we want you to be you. Passion fuels our Next Generation of the Food journey. Full of energy and possibility, Flora Foodies constantly raise the bar, driving the Flora Food Group and one another forwards. We're a team of food lovers and enthusiasts – our sum is truly greater than our parts, and we absolutely love what we do.
