Sr. Project Manager Whr Project
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
The Senior Project Manager role is to own and manage the complete project life cycle from kick-off to close-out including reporting and risk management.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Continuously monitor projects to ensure they are meeting standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
- Collaborate with all departments and units to manage and prioritize project delivery
- Ensure team members carry out their tasks efficiently while upholding the standards of the client
- Monitor projects and report status to management on a regular basis
- Create and maintain a risk register to manage potential risks
- Manage the timely resolution of issues, including the escalation of issues that are outside of the project team s scope of responsibility for respective project
- Develop, maintain, and manage detailed project plans, action items and major milestones for all assigned projects
- Act as a single point of contact for project status
- Address problems through risk management and contingency planning and present solutions to SC management
- Perform additional duties commensurate with the current role, as and when requested by the Head of Communication Planning
- Manage overall implementation
- Track and monitor program progress
- Manage internal and external communication related to project status
- Ensure stakeholder alignment
- Manage on-going issue resolution
- Identify and manage risks
- Prepare Leadership presentations storyline, align with program leaders and program manager, collect respective slides from workstreams
- Check budget and track savings and expenses
- Keep track of resources schedule
- Prepare project plan at the start of a project.
- Provide detail on activities and key milestones planned by each initiative/ work stream
- Provide detail for each initiative/ work stream on progress and key issues for reporting upwards
- Provide detail for each initiative/ work stream on issues and risks and potential remedies
- Create a shared file repository functionality with access control and version control
- Keep track of resources time and pre-plan time off and vacations.
- Prepare project budget and track savings and spend on an ongoing basis
- Excellent communication skills written and verbally
- Ability to multitask and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent organization and time management skills, strong attention to detail
- Knowledge development skills
- Initiative
- Teamwork skills
- Ability to be flexible, resilient, solution oriented and creative
- Service-orientated attitude, proactive thinker, information seeker
- Bachelor/Master Degree in Engineering
- 13-15 years of experience as a project manager in an agency, or in a Tech or governmental industry
- Experience working with PR or advertising/creative agency a plus
- Prior Content writing experience
- PMP Certificate is a plus
- Fluency in English and Arabic Work Conditions
- Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed and allowed by local regulations
- Dubai: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
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Job Detail
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Job IdJD1612271
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationDubai, United Arab Emirates
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EducationNot mentioned