Senior IT Business Analyst

Orange Business is a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business. Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

CORE PURPOSE:

To partner with business stakeholders to lead projects from initiation through requirements, solutioning, estimation, planning, and end-to-end successful delivery into production.

LOCATION: Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

REPORTING TO: Customer Program Director

Role:

• Leading program management teams
• Internet of Things (IoT) / Smart Cities/Services
• Software or network engineering
• Telecommunications infrastructure or operations
• Lead a team of different expertise

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement full functioning, PMO for the smart city project, including:
• Consistent methods and tools for project initiation, team structure, financial management, risk management, development processes, systems integration processes, project/program reviews, escalation processes, testing, business case development and cross-functional team leadership.
• Drive a continuous improvement culture/mindset with respect to project delivery and leadership demonstrated through the utilization of useful project performance metrics and defined performance improvement plans.
• Partner with leadership teams to ensure appropriate planning, execution, visibility, tracking, and leadership to enhance project success rates.
• Develop and implement project performance metrics to provide a data-centric view of PMO performance and to validate improvement on an ongoing basis
• Perform extensive resource planning/allocation activities in conjunction with ensuring appropriate project financial management for planning project portfolio.
• Communicate and drive the adoption and alignment of standards, policies and procedures across the project.
• Responsible for accumulating and disseminating PMO best practices. Drive the use of best practices and apply lessons learned to improve select performance outcomes.
• Lead departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering the smart blueprint.
• Drive strategic management of identified programs, to ensure that the programs are aligned to the customer needs, and enterprise business goals.
• Participate in strategic planning and implementation of major engineering, technology & innovation strategies and initiatives as determined by the Smart City PMO, Technology Council, and the client stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, advanced degree strongly preferred
• 5+ years of direct PMO leadership experience in a multi-site global business
• 5+ years of experience as a working project manager in ICT/Telco/Smart City or other complex infrastructure environment
• Knows what a good PMO office looks like with a track record of continuous improvement in a new product development environment
• PMI certification or similar
• Solid leadership presence and ability to lead a global multi-site PMO team
• Superior project management skills, including the ability to execute and prioritize a number of tasks simultaneously and experience managing cross functional teams.
• Understanding of, and the ability to implement project portfolio management techniques to continuously improve
• Understanding of the factors influencing project cycle time, and the proven ability to implement practices that result in reductions in overall project time to completion.

What we offer:

• Global opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world
• Flexible work environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working)
• Professional development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities
• Career growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange
• Caring and daring culture: health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events
• Reward programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards

Regardless of your age, gender identity, race, ethnic origin, religion/belief, sexual orientation, marital status, neuroatypia, disability, veteran status or appearance, we encourage diversity within our teams because it is a strength for the collective and a vector of innovation. Orange Group is a disabled-friendly company and equal opportunity employer: don't hesitate to tell us about your specific needs.