Middle East Jobs: Project Manager - Saudi Business Machines Ltd.

Experience: 13 + years

Job Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Education Degree: Computer Science/ Electronics / Electrical / Information Systems.

Job Requirements:

The Project Manager applies professional principles, practices, and techniques to lead project teams and control project schedule, cost, and performance risks to ensure satisfied customers. This role has

ultimate responsibility for all assigned projects and manages customer satisfaction, definition, planning, monitoring, and others aspects of a project. This role is generally assigned non-critical, standardized projects.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Responsible to thoroughly understand and communicate Clients requirements to appropriate team members, and manage all requirements accordingly to realize each for the Clients.

Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, and provide timely feedback.

Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives.

Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately.

Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.

Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to management.

Follow SBM policies, procedures and methodologies.

Conduct regular status meetings with all client, keeping the client’s needs and requirements continuously in view.

Work collaboratively with development staff and support staff to maintain thorough knowledge of product capabilities, and to ensure that all communications between SBM and its clients.

Travel required up to 15% of the time.

Implementation Duties & Responsibilities

Define & maintain all implementation processes, manage implementation lifecycle; coordinate documentation when needed.

Arrange customer training and align training with customer goals.

Troubleshoot technical issues when the need arises, and escalating appropriately as needed.

Maintain timelines and target dates in Microsoft Project.

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint

and release planning, demos and other agile project related meetings.

Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.

Facilitate productivity by ensuring that the team has tools to succeed.

Find and work to remove development and project roadblocks; motivates the development

team and keep them excited to move forward; protects the team from outside distractions.

Manage the team - Ensure that daily, sprint and release commitments are being upheld.

Competencies:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

Project Management - Develops project plans; Coordinates projects; Communicates changes and progress; Completes projects on time and budget; Manages project team activities.

Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Gives and welcomes feedback

Leadership - Exhibits confidence in self and others; Inspires and motivates others to perform well; Effectively influences actions and opinions of others; Accepts feedback from others; Gives appropriate recognition to others.

Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; Works well in group problem solving situations.

Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.

Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; Plans for additional resources; Sets goals and objectives; Organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; Develops realistic action plans.

Job Details

Date Posted:	2013-12-23
Job Location:	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Job Role:	Technology/IT
Company Industry:	Information Technology
Joining Date:	2014-01-15

Preferred Candidate

Career Level:	Mid Career
Gender:	Male
Nationality:	United Arab Emirates; Bahrain; Djibouti; Algeria; Egypt; Iraq; Jordan; Comoros; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Morocco; Mauritania; Oman; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Sudan; Somalia; Syria; Tunisia; Yemen
Degree:	Bachelor's degree / higher diploma

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Date Posted: December 23, 2013 at 09:01AM