Associate Manager - Project Management Office (UAE National)

Job Purpose:

Oversee the development of programme vision and blueprint, ensuring effective benefits realization, quality assurance, and stakeholder engagement. Lead portfolio and programme planning, including tranche and project scheduling, milestone tracking, and proactive risk and issue management. The role is also accountable for financial oversight, maintenance of risks, issues, assumptions and actions logs, resource forecasting, dependency management, and comprehensive programme reporting. Operationally, the position provides and enables project prioritization, management information, financial reporting, resource allocation, and informed decision-making to support organizational objectives.

Key Accountabilities:

Strategic Planning

• Facilitate processes to design and document strategic goals, outcomes and related projects.
• Oversee development of project plans aligned with strategic objectives.

Portfolio Management

• Set project planning standards to determine the resources and schedule required to deliver strategies and facilitate a process to allocate budget and human resources to the portfolios, including managing dependencies between strategic resources.
• Develop, promote and maintain standards and tools for portfolio and project management, with the goal of delivering every project on time, within budget and within scope.
• Establish and oversee strategy/project change control processes.
• Facilitate communication and negotiation with leadership and other key strategy stakeholders, including regular reports and strategy progress meetings

Project Planning and Execution

• Oversee creation and maintenance of project scope documents to ensure effective planning and define and manage risks, performance, roles, resources, communications, and quality.
• Supervise, coach and mentor project managers to successfully plan, coordinate and execute projects, including overseeing a multi-year initiative to improve competencies.
• Support leadership team in monitoring the scope, quality, schedule and cost of the strategic portfolio, including working with directors and projects leads to review and assure delivery of all major strategy and project deliverables and milestones.
• Oversee management of portfolio risks and issues, including regular assessments.

Business Guidance, Processes and Tools

• Develop and ensure effective implementation of key processes and tools to support project portfolio management for all project components (i.e., scope definition, analysis and planning, implementation, change management and deliverables)
• Develop and manage a process to design/update, approve and communicate program and operations guidance that is effective and ensures consistent operations.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Qualification

▪ Bachelor’s degree in industrial Engineer or other relevant fields

Minimum Experience and Skills

• 4 to 6 years of progressive experience
• Established knowledge of project management and strategy execution process.
• A Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, is preferable
• PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner, or equivalently qualified in similar project management methodologies, is preferable.
• Excellent organizational and technical skills.
• Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills

Competencies

• Business Process Management
• Corporate Performance Management
• Quality Management
• Organizational Awareness
• Project Management