Senior It Project Manager

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Job Description

Overview:

Group 42 (\xe2\x80\x98G42\xe2\x80\x99) is an Abu Dhabi based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company, uniquely positioned in the national ecosystem to develop and deploy holistic and scalable AI solutions to a wide range of clients. The Group`s business operations cover numerous industry verticals, including healthcare, smartcity, energy, finance, infrastructure and data analytics.

G42 has an active and extensive partnership network, connecting leading international organizations who complement our ecosystem and support our vision. Our partnerships range from strategic collaborations projects, joint ventures to direct investment by G42.

To project manage a number of complex projects, from inception through to handover to business, ensuring the delivery of specified products and services within agreed time, quality and cost parameters. To develop, streamline, and nurture key relationships with project stakeholders, encouraging a future-orientation and championing the values of the organisation Responsibilities:
  • Engage with key stakeholders to identify project objectives and key products to be delivered.
  • Develop project specifications, agree project plan baseline including scope, key activities, deliverables, resource requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
  • Utilise project plans and schedules to monitor all activities.
  • Manage relationships amongst stakeholders by building confidence and trust with clear professional communications and assured expectation management.
  • Ensure team members are informed, have clear goals, and work collaboratively and in partnership with clients and other stakeholders to achieve planned outcomes.
  • Drive project execution; track delivery; expect, monitor and control change, own change management; pro-actively seek and resolve blockers.
  • Record information accurately and consistently using appropriate systems and provide and communicate timely information to relevant parties.
  • Seek stakeholder insight and feed it into improved processes while ensuring compliance with governance and standards.
  • Manage projects within agreed governance structures and processes, to ensure consistency of approach and efficient use of resources.
  • Conduct progress reviews to give stakeholders confidence that projects will deliver to time, budget and agreed standards.
  • Conduct reviews to assess project outcomes and to identify and capture lessons learned to enable continuous improvement. Contribute to the provision of documentation for new or improved processes, products and services and to ensure that good practice is disseminated throughout the organisation.
  • Take a flexible approach to task boundaries where appropriate.
  • Manage subcontractors and execute performance management.

Other Responsibilities
  • Comply with applicable laws, regulations, international standards and related G42 Policies and Procedures.
  • Comply with G42 Acceptable Use Policy, attend mandatory information security, privacy, business continuity and HSE trainings.
  • Report information security, HSE etc. incidents or suspect incidents through G42 established incident reporting channels.
  • Maintain confidentiality of information and classify and handle information as per G42 Policies and Procedures
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree required; MBA preferred. Business administration, management, leadership and related fields.
  • 12+ years of experience in project management, especially larger projects with established firms
  • PMP certification required; PMO experience preferred
  • Knowledge of agile and lean approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, among others.
  • Experience in Agile project management teams
  • Proven leadership skills
  • Expertise in conflict resolution
  • Analytical and strong organizational skills, with excellent verbal and written ability
  • Proficiency with project management software and related tools including but not limited to MS Projects, JIRA, MS Excel, etc.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1491723
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • Education
    Not mentioned