About EUROGATE & EUROGATE Group Automation (EGA)EUROGATE Group Automation (EGA) is driving the transformation of EUROGATE’sGerman terminals through an ambitious automation programme.Our goal is simple: to make automation the engine of safety, reliability, andperformance, turning technology and process excellence into measurablebusiness results.EGA brings together experts from engineering, operations, automation, and digitaltechnologies to deliver complex automation projects that redefine how ourterminals work. We are building a culture based on lean performance, continuousimprovement, and practical learning, focused on progress, not control.The RoleThe Project Management Office Analyst (PMO Analyst) supports the PortfolioPMO Manager in running a high-performing automation portfolio acrossEUROGATE’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 roleholder does not create or own primary schedules, cost or risk baselines, but ratherfocuses 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 helpleadership focus on the issues that matter most.Location: Hamburg based role, with regular presence across EUROGATE’s fourlocations – Bremen, Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven.Language: English fluency required; German language proficiency preferred B1 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 timelydecisions.
- Maintain portfolio rhythm and cadence, supporting visual management,governance forums, and standard performance cycles.
- Improve signal quality, working with Project Controls Managers tochallenge consistency, reliability and decision usefulness of data, withoutowning underlying control baselines and assurance activities.
- Translate complexity into clarity, helping senior stakeholders quicklyunderstand trade-offs, risks, and priorities.
- Support continuous improvement by identifying portfolio-level patternsand recurring decision bottlenecks, capturing lessons learned and helpingevolve portfolio standards and ways of working.Hard Skills & Experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a PMO, portfolio, or complex projectenvironment, ideally within capital projects, infrastructure, automation, orengineering-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 ordecision 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, orChange teams is advantageous.
- Relevant project management certifications (e.G. PMI, APM, MSP, Lean SixSigma) 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 acrossfunctions.
- Pragmatic and improvement-focused, avoids bureaucracy andoverprocessing.
- Reliable and disciplined, supports rhythm, cadence, and follow-through.Success (in this role) Looks Like
- Portfolio discussions focus on future actions and decisions, notretrospective reporting.
- Governance forums run smoothly, predictably, and efficiently.
- Senior leaders experience clarity rather than overload, decision cycle timesshorten and governance materials become lighter.
- The Portfolio PMO Manager is freed to focus on system leadership andperformance, not material preparation.
- Portfolio insight is trusted, timely, and decision-ready.Please can you apply with your CV in English for review and consideration