PMO Director (Offshore Wind Project)

Do you want to create the structure, governance and insights that help steer one of our most ambitious offshore wind projects?

As PMO Director, you will play a central role in creating structure, alignment and strong decision-making across a large-scale offshore wind project, including a Joint Venture setup. You will work closely with the Project CEO and Project Management Team as a trusted partner, translating complexity into clear direction.

The role will be organized in our Project Support function in Offshore Wind and be working in our biggest Offshore Project in a leadership role.

Business Area Wind

We develop, build and operate wind farms – onshore and offshore – to accelerate the growth of renewable energy. We combine international expertise with innovation to deliver world-class projects, contributing every day to a more sustainable energy system.

Your role

You lead and develop the Project Management Office in the project, ensuring strong governance, high-quality reporting and close collaboration across the project organisation. Together with your team, you create the foundation for clear and well-informed decisions.

In this role, you will:

• Drive executive reporting to senior management and Boards, turning complex project data into clear insights
• Ensure readiness for governance processes such as tollgates, decision forums and escalation points
• Support through structured analysis, scenario development and recommendations and act as trusted partner to the CEO and senior stakeholders, influencing direction and supporting decision-making at the highest level
• Create alignment across planning, cost, risk, scope and QHSE to provide a consistent project overview
• Develop and improve PMO processes, tools and ways of working throughout the project lifecycle
• Build and lead a PMO team of approximately 10 colleagues with diverse professional backgrounds, fostering collaboration, clarity and continuous development

Qualifications

Your profile

You bring experience from complex project environments and know how to create clarity across many stakeholders. You are comfortable working closely with senior leadership and communicating complex topics in a simple and structured way.

We expect that you:

• Have extensive experience within PMO, Project Controls or project management in large-scale projects (typically 10+ years)
• Have led PMO or project support teams or similar and know how to build strong collaboration
• Bring solid people leadership experience, including leading and developing diverse teams
• Have experience working closely with senior leadership and are able to influence and challenge constructively
• Are able to translate complex information into clear communication and decision material
• Bring experience from infrastructure, energy or offshore projects (an advantage)
• Have worked with multi-stakeholder environments and in Joint Ventures (an advantage)
• Hold a degree in engineering, business or a related field
• Have strong knowledge of structured project execution and stage-gate models and project management processes (e.g. PMP, IPMA)

You bring a leadership style that creates direction, trust and collaboration, and you are comfortable navigating in both team leadership and senior stakeholder environments.

What we offer

At Vattenfall, you become part of a purpose-driven organisation where your work contributes directly to the energy transition. You will operate in an international environment with ambitious goals and strong collaboration.

We offer you:

• A key role in a large and strategically important project
• Close collaboration with senior leadership and international stakeholders
• Opportunities for professional and personal development
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment
• Flexible working conditions depending on project needs

Company

Vattenfall is a European energy company with around 20,000 employees.

Business Area Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as other non-hydro Renewable activities like solar PV and batteries. Today we develop, construct and operate wind generation in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. In addition, we have a clear strategy to develop our solar PV and battery operations further.