Head of Program Management Office

What can you tell your friends when they ask what you do?

I run the room where DAVI decides what actually gets done. Every team has ideas, every partner has requests, and every Big Rock needs someone to hold the full picture -- what we're building, why we're building it, in what order, and whether it's actually moving the business forward. That's my job. I sit at the intersection of strategy and execution, translating the company's ambitions into a funded, sequenced, and accountable portfolio of projects - and making sure leadership always has a clear, honest view of what's in flight, what's at risk, and what should stop. In a company redesigning itself from a loyalty program into a digital ecosystem, I'm the one making sure we're building the right things, not just building things right.

Responsibilities – How will you do this?

Project Management Strategy and Prioritization

• Own company-wide project management practices: define the framework for how projects are proposed, evaluated, prioritized, and approved across all functions
• Lead the annual and quarterly project planning process in partnership with the CEO and CCO, translating strategic priorities into a funded, sequenced roadmap
• Maintain a single, authoritative view of all active, queued, and deferred projects across DAVI including their strategic rationale, resource requirements, dependencies, and expected business outcomes

Business Case Development and Investment Governance

• Set and enforce the standard for how business cases are built across DAVI including financial modeling, ROI framing, risk assessment, and resource requirements
• Challenge and stress-test initiative proposals before they reach leadership for approval, ensuring decisions are made on evidence, not advocacy
• Track post-implementation value realization against approved business cases and escalate where outcomes diverge materially from projections

Cross-Functional Coordination and Dependency Management

• Identify and actively manage cross-functional dependencies across initiatives, surfacing conflicts, sequencing risks, and resource constraints before they become delivery problems
• Facilitate project portfolio-level alignment across function heads, ensuring initiative owners understand their interdependencies and shared accountability for outcomes
• Serve as the connective tissue between strategy formulation at leadership level and execution at the functional level

Portfolio Reporting and Leadership Visibility

• Design and maintain project portfolio dashboards and reporting rhythms that give leadership a real-time, accurate view of initiative health, milestone progress, and risk status
• Prepare portfolio review materials for the CEO, CCO, and ExCom, structured for decision-making, not just status updates
• Escalate risks and trade-offs proactively, with a clear recommendation, not just a problem statement

Business Analysis and Requirements Governance

• Direct the Business Analyst under this role in producing structured requirements documentation, initiative scoping, and feasibility assessments that meet DAVI's standard for handoff to enabling functions
• Establish and govern the requirements quality bar across the organization, ensuring that initiatives arriving at Product, Technology, and Data teams are sufficiently specified before resources are committed
• Own the process by which business intent is translated into actionable, cross-functional requirements

Continuous Improvement and PMO Capability Building

• Build and evolve the PMO's tools, templates, and processes to match the organization's growing portfolio complexity as coalition expansion and platform migration accelerate
• Identify patterns of project underperformance - recurring delays, scope drift, weak business cases - and drive systemic fixes, not one-off interventions
• Champion a project management culture where initiative ownership, accountability, and outcome orientation are the norm, not the exception

To be successful, you’ll need

• 8 to 12+ years of experience in project management, strategy execution, business planning, or a chief of staff function with a track record of managing a complex, multi-project portfolio in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong business case and financial modeling capability: able to build, review, and challenge an investment case independently, and hold initiative owners accountable to the assumptions they committed to.
• Experience designing and running project governance frameworks including prioritization methodologies, stage-gate processes, and portfolio reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to work at the leadership level: comfortable presenting trade-offs and recommendations to a CEO, facilitating difficult prioritization conversations, and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong cross-functional coordination instincts: able to identify dependency risks, manage competing priorities across functions, and keep multiple complex projects moving without becoming a bottleneck
• High analytical and structured thinking capability: able to synthesize large amounts of information into a clear portfolio view and communicate it in a way that drives decisions.
• Familiarity with the loyalty, digital, or technology-driven business environment is a strong advantage, particularly understanding how product, technology, data, and commercial functions interact in a platform migration and coalition expansion context.

About Data Analytics Ventures Inc. (DAVI)

Founded in 2019, DAVI is the Gokongwei Group's loyalty and data analytics company and the team behind Go Rewards, the Philippines' fastest-growing loyalty program.

We exist to make life more rewarding for every Filipino. Through Go Rewards, we connect millions of members with brands across retail, travel, banking, fuel, and lifestyle, creating experiences that are simpler, more personal, and more meaningful every day. Our ambition is clear: to build the biggest and best loyalty program in the Philippines, and eventually, in Asia.

But Go Rewards is only part of what we do. DAVI is also a data and insights company. We help our partners across the Gokongwei Group and beyond understand their customers better, identify growth opportunities, and make smarter business decisions. Data isn't just what we work with. It's how we think.

Why work at DAVI

At DAVI, you'll be part of a team building something that matters at scale. You'll work alongside people who are sharp, hungry, and genuinely good at what they do, in an environment that values open dialogue, constructive challenge, and continuous learning.

We believe that rewards start at home. Our People & Culture team is committed to making life at DAVI more meaningful through programs that support your growth, a culture that respects your contribution, and work that connects to a purpose bigger than any single role.

What we stand for

As part of the Gokongwei Group, we are guided by three core values that shape how we work and how we show up for each other.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset. We pursue growth with resilience, passion, and agility. We are not afraid to challenge the status quo, move fast, and find better ways to serve our customers and partners.

• Stewardship. We take full responsibility for what is entrusted to us, our people, our data, our resources, and our relationships. We manage all of it with care, with sustainability in mind, and with a long-term view.

• Integrity. We do the right thing, always, not because someone is watching, but because it is who we are. We hold ourselves to high standards in every decision, every interaction, and every commitment we make.

If you're passionate about data, loyalty, and building things that last, and you want to do it with people who share these values, DAVI is where you want to be.

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