Senior IT Project Manager
ECCO Gulf WLL
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Doha • Qatar
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About the role
- Leading complex projects from start to finish, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to high quality standards.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables, then create and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, and budgets. Lead the execution of the project through all phases.
- Lead, motivate, and manage project teams, including allocating tasks and responsibilities. Manage all project resources, such as personnel and budget, to optimize performance.
- Serve as the main point of contact for stakeholders, including clients and senior leadership. Provide regular progress reports, manage expectations, and ensure project goals are clear to all parties.
- Establish and maintain quality standards for project deliverables. Perform quality checks to ensure compliance with best practices and organizational guidelines.
- Ensure the project's goals and outcomes support the organization's strategic objectives.
- Develop overall project timelines and key milestones; ensure teams meet critical dates leveraging Project Management software
- Sets direction and communicates a clear vision of the projects and motivates the project team to achieve them.
- Creating a project environment that enables peak performance by team members: open disclosure of issues, alignment of project goals, coaching to clarify deliverables, escalation procedures, etc.
- Ensuring a strong relationship with the business owner and key stakeholders of the project.
- Ensures that the project is aligned with customer expectations and facilitates project steerco meetings for project decision making and highlighting key updates to the main stakeholders.
- Act as the intermediary between the technical team and non technical stakeholders, including customers and management, to keep everyone informed.
- Facilitate decision-making, arbitrate impasses, remove barriers and ultimately drive projects to completion
- Work with team to identify and execute cost savings opportunities
- Coordinates with relevant stakeholders to ensure that appropriate timing, resources, and sequencing of the work efforts are aligned to produce the desired result according to the project schedule.
- Ensure project risks are managed and communicate risks and implications to management as appropriate
- Work with team to identify and execute cost savings opportunities
- Organize project activities into manageable work efforts for team members and determine an effective approach to completing the work, as outlined in the project plan
- Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, cross-project dependencies, and report on project status within the published schedule
- Conduct post-project evaluations (lessons learned) and implement process improvements based on project outcomes.
- Mentor and train junior project managers and teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor in IT or relevant
- Project Management Institute (PMI), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or other IT industry project management certification is required.
- Overall 10+ years’ experience in similar skill set
- Excellent communication skills (oral & written)
- Bilingual Preferred
- Excellent Project Management experience
- Experience in managing complex projects including vendor management preferred.
- Experience in using project management tools
Benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementvendor managementrisk managementbudget managementquality assuranceproject planningstakeholder managementcost savings analysisproject schedulingpost-project evaluation
Soft Skills
communication skillsleadershipteam motivationproblem-solvingcoachinginterpersonal skillsdecision-makingconflict resolutionorganizational skillsrelationship management
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)Project Management Institute (PMI) certification