Introduction

  • The Head of Business Support is responsible for providing leadership, governance, and assurance over the Project Management System, Audit & Self-Assessment, Risk & Issues management, and Lessons Learned functions.

What are you going to do 

  • The role ensures PMS policy, gates requirements, and deliverables are effectively planned, controlled, and compiled with, while driving alignment, accountability, and continuous improvement across Offshore projects to support consistent, high-quality project delivery.
  • The role is expected to provide governance and leadership over the Project Management System, risk management, and lessons learned across Offshore projects.
  • The role ensures PMS policy and requirements as per the defined gates system are consistently applied, controlled, and aligned to support effective project delivery.
  • The role faces major challenges in ensuring consistent PMS compliance across multiple projects and contractors, balancing strong governance with delivery pressures, managing deviations through formal justification and approval mechanisms, and influencing diverse stakeholders to maintain accountability, risk visibility and continuous improvement.
  • Provide leadership and governance for Project Management Systems, Audit & Self-Assessment, Risks & Issues Management, and Lessons Learned across all Offshore projects.
  • Oversee the implementation, compliance, and continuous improvement of Project Management Systems, policies, procedures, and tools.
  • Ensure effective planning, execution, and quality of project reviews and stage-gate processes in line with requirements.
  • Lead enterprise and project risk management activities, ensuring risks and issues are identified, assessed, mitigated, and escalated appropriately.
  • Ensure contractor compliance with company project governance, PMS, and risk management requirements.
  • Champion Lessons Learned management, ensuring insights are captured, communicated, and embedded into future project execution.
  • Develop, maintain, and govern the Project Management System roadmap, ensuring it clearly defines project's deliverables at each gate.
  • Establish, maintain, and enforce the Deliverables Responsibilities & Authority Matrix (DRAM) across all projects, ensuring roles and accountabilities are clearly defined, understood, agreed, and consistently applied to support effective planning, execution, and decision-making.
  • Ensure all PMS-related deliverables are comprehensively planned, scheduled, tracked, and controlled to ensure timely completion of all deliverables in accordance with PMS policy requirements and the Deliverables Responsibilities & Authority Matrix (DRAM).
  • Ensure any deviation from Project Management System policy is formally justified, documented, recorded, and approved through appropriate governance and change-control mechanisms such as decision records, waivers, or equivalent governance processes.

Essential skills and knowledge 

  • Bachelors' Degree in Engineering, Project Management or Business Administration.
  • 10 years' experience in business related function or discipline, including 6 years in the Oil & Gas Industry, and 2 years' experience in a supervisory role, or oversight of contractor / subcontractors / service / vendor personnel.
  • Strong knowledge in project business related function / discipline such as planning, risk management, change management, Projects management, support services, lessons learned, etc.
  • Experience managing business functions/discipline.
  • Extensive knowledge in international standards, best practices and methodologies as it relates to business disciplines.
  • SME level competence in Projects Management Systems.
  • Experience with risk assessment approach in decision making.
  • Strong knowledge of relevant software and computer skills, e.g., dashboards, data analytics, SAP, Power BI etc.
  • Experience working in large scale organizations in Operations, Projects, Subsurface, etc.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Strong leadership skills.
  • Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Advanced computer literacy.

What we offer

  • Salary:
    • Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
  • Work Schedule:
    • 10 Hours / 6 Days
  • Duration:
    • 36 Months, with possible extension
  • Location:
    • Doha

Closing: 25 February 2026

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Do you have questions?

Vacancy reference: CR-277056

NSA

Corporate recruiter

Namitha Sambhram Aivalli

Contact

Application process

First Contact

We carefully review your application and in the coming weeks, you will be notified for an interview session if you are selected. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 7 days.

Scheduling an Interview

After being shortlisted, you will be contacted via email or telephone to arrange for a date on your availability for the qualification interview.

Phone/ Qualification Interview

During the interview, you will be assessed on your level of experience and skills, work history, availability, and the qualifications the company is seeking for the position.

Meeting in Real Life

After successfully making through the phone interview, a face to face interview will be scheduled between the candidate and recruiter. This session can be a more in-depth  interview to review your communication and interpersonal skills.

Application for the Position

Submission of candidates resume for client’s approval and screening.

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