Project Manager

Title: Project Manager

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Duration: Long-term contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Support managing project risk and change management tracker.
• Facilitate the assessment of inter-project dependencies and gauge the financial impact and risks of the project.
• Support managing work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.
• Coordinate projects with other on-going efforts.
• Manage the scope change process and issue identification/resolution.
• Monitor and communicate status to senior leadership.
• Craft communication plans requiring cultural change within the organization.
• Identify and anticipate risks and issues.
• Facilitate resolution, mitigation, and define escalation process.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to review project roadmap, milestones, timelines and deliverables.
• Monitor project progress and performance to identify and address any deviations from established quality metrics.
• Facilitate post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and identify opportunities for process improvement.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience at a mid-level in project management.
• Prior experience of managing complex transformation projects and proficient in governance framework and management skills for projects and transformations.
• Bachelor’s Degree | Management Certification (e.g. CAPM/ PMP) is a plus.
• Strong communication skills with ability to articulate and optimize design based on the value to the user and the business, lead ideation sessions and workshops.
• Experience of providing input to organizational business and budget planning.
• Capability to provide timely, accurate and relevant project and portfolio reporting as agreed.
• Experience of resource planning against the prioritized portfolio of projects.