Program Management Office Analyst

About EUROGATE & EUROGATE Group Automation (EGA)

EUROGATE Group Automation (EGA) is driving the transformation of EUROGATE’s German terminals through an ambitious automation programme.

Our goal is simple: to make automation the engine of safety, reliability, and performance, turning technology and process excellence into measurable business results.

EGA brings together experts from engineering, operations, automation, and digital technologies to deliver complex automation projects that redefine how our terminals work. We are building a culture based on lean performance, continuous improvement, and practical learning, focused on progress, not control.

The Role

The Project Management Office Analyst (PMO Analyst) supports the Portfolio PMO Manager in running a high‑performing automation portfolio across EUROGATE’s German terminals.

The role exists to enhance portfolio performance by improving the quality, clarity, and flow of information used in governance and decision‑making. The role holder does not create or own primary schedules, cost or risk baselines, but rather focuses on turning complex project data into clear, decision‑ready insight, ensuring portfolio governance runs smoothly and predictably.

This is not an administrative PMO role. It is a performance‑enabling role, designed to improve decision quality, reduce friction in governance, and help leadership focus on the issues that matter most.

Location

Germany‑based role, with regular presence across EUROGATE’s four locations – Bremen, Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven.

Language

English fluency required; German language proficiency preferred A2 and above.

In practice, this means you will:

• Shape portfolio insight, consolidating project‑level inputs into clear, forward‑looking views of risk, opportunity, and performance.
• Support executive‑level portfolio governance, preparing concise, decision‑focused materials that enable effective discussion and timely decisions.
• Maintain portfolio rhythm and cadence, supporting visual management, governance forums, and standard performance cycles.
• Improve signal quality, working with Project Controls Managers to challenge consistency, reliability and decision usefulness of data, without owning underlying control baselines and assurance activities.
• Translate complexity into clarity, helping senior stakeholders quickly understand trade‑offs, risks, and priorities.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying portfolio‑level patterns and recurring decision bottlenecks, capturing lessons learned and helping evolve portfolio standards and ways of working.

Hard Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a PMO, portfolio, or complex project environment, ideally within capital projects, infrastructure, automation, or engineering‑led organisations.
• Strong analytical capability, with confidence working with schedule, risk, cost, and performance information to extract decision‑relevant insights.
• Experience supporting portfolio and executive‑level governance or decision forums, including preparation of clear, concise decision materials.
• Ability to synthesise complex information into simple, structured insight.
• Familiarity with lean performance concepts, such as leading indicators, visual management, and continuous improvement.
• Experience working with Project Controls, Finance / Controlling, or Change teams is advantageous.
• Relevant project management certifications (e.g. PMI, APM, MSP, Lean Six Sigma) highly valued but not essential.

Soft Skills & Behaviours

• Clear, structured thinker who values clarity over volume.
• Strong communicator able to engage credibly with senior stakeholders.
• Stakeholder‑aware and collaborative, comfortable working across functions.
• Pragmatic and improvement‑focused, avoids bureaucracy and overprocessing.
• Reliable and disciplined, supports rhythm, cadence, and follow‑through.

Success (in this role) Looks Like

• Portfolio discussions focus on future actions and decisions, not retrospective reporting.
• Governance forums run smoothly, predictably, and efficiently.
• Senior leaders experience clarity rather than overload, decision cycle times shorten and governance materials become lighter.
• The Portfolio PMO Manager is freed to focus on system leadership and performance, not material preparation.
• Portfolio insight is trusted, timely, and decision‑ready.

Please can you apply with your CV in English for review and consideration