Transformation Assurance Manager

• Provide independent assurance across assigned transformation initiatives, validating progress, milestones, deliverables, and outcomes against evidence. • Review initiative status, supporting documentation, and governance records to ensure reported progress reflects actual delivery. • Assess interdependencies across initiatives and identify risks where delays or issues in one programme may impact others. • Conduct business readiness assessments across people, process, technology, governance, and data dimensions. • Monitor benefits realization and identify variances between planned and achieved outcomes. • Challenge initiative owners, programme managers, and stakeholders on delivery status, risks, readiness, and benefits performance. • Escalate issues, risks, and delivery concerns with evidence-based recommendations to Transformation Assurance leadership. • Prepare assurance reports, executive summaries, stage-gate assessments, and governance packs for leadership review. • Support transformation governance forums and ensure consistent reporting through approved data sources and assurance frameworks. • Utilize AI tools to validate progress against source documentation, identify delivery risks, verify milestone completion, and improve assurance reporting efficiency. • Analyze stakeholder feedback, communications, project documentation, and operational data to identify early signs of adoption or readiness issues. • Promote best practices in transformation assurance, governance, benefits tracking, and programme oversight. • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline. • 10+ years of experience in Transformation, PMO, Programme Management, Change Management, Business Transformation, or Assurance functions. • Strong experience in stage-gate governance, milestone tracking, benefits realization, programme assurance, and transformation oversight. • Good understanding of PMO methodologies, project governance, change management frameworks, and organizational transformation practices. • Proven ability to challenge senior stakeholders while maintaining productive working relationships. • Experience assessing business readiness across people, process, systems, data, and operating model changes. • Strong analytical skills with experience using dashboards, reporting tools, and data-driven decision-making methodologies. • Experience supporting large-scale transformation programmes, strategic initiatives, digital transformation projects, or enterprise change portfolios. • Construction, real estate, infrastructure, or multi-entity group experience is preferred. • GCC/MENA experience is advantageous. • Demonstrated practical use of AI tools for assurance reviews, progress validation, reporting, risk identification, benefits tracking, or transformation governance. • Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and executive reporting skills.