Project Manager

Job Purpose

Responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects on time, within scope, and to required quality standards. Coordinates with stakeholders, manages risks and changes, and ensures effective communication and reporting throughout the project lifecycle to achieve successful project outcomes.

Key Accountability Areas

Project Planning and Delivery:

• Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Define project scope, objectives, and success criteria.
• Coordinate project activities and resources.
• Monitor execution to ensure timely delivery of project outcomes.

Stakeholder and Team Management:

• Engage and coordinate with project stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication among project teams and business owners.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and project requirements.
• Conduct project meetings and follow up on action items.

Risk, Issue, and Change Management:

• Identify and assess project risks and issues.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Manage and review project change requests.
• Escalate critical risks, issues, and changes when required.

Quality and Performance Monitoring:

• Monitor project performance against approved plans.
• Review deliverables against acceptance criteria.
• Ensure compliance with project standards and quality requirements.
• Track project KPIs and report progress to stakeholders.

Governance, Reporting, and Vendor Coordination:

• Prepare project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
• Apply approved project management methodologies and templates.
• Support the preparation of scopes of work and project documentation.
• Coordinate with vendors and monitor contractual deliverables.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies