Program Manager

Dentsu; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital marketing firm in Dubai is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee project delivery, ensuring objectives are met within time, cost, and quality constraints. The successful candidate will lead project teams, manage budgets, and coordinate with stakeholders to drive project success. Strong leadership and project management skills are essential for this role, which is full-time and permanent.

Qualifications

• Proficient in managing project teams and budgets.
• Experience in stakeholder management and governance.
• Strong skills in project design and planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams to deliver outputs within scope.
• Manage project budgets and report on forecasts.
• Identify and manage project risks and stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Project Leadership

Team Management

Budget Management

Governance

Stakeholder Management

Job description

The purpose of this role is to drive and oversee the delivery of the assigned projects to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time cost and quality constraints.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities:
Project Leadership. Creates and leads the project team to deliver the agreed outputs/outcomes within scope time cost and quality constraints. Promotes the wider good in all actions acting in a morally legally and socially appropriate manner in dealings across project stakeholders and team
Project Team Management. Manages the project team on a day to day basis appropriate to context and project stage. Clearly defines agrees and delegates team and key stakeholder roles and responsibilities; develops capability and fosters innovation; empowers and inspires others to deliver successful projects
Project Business Case and Benefits Management. Where applicable supports the project sponsor to prepare gain approval of refine and update business cases that justify projects in terms of benefits costs and risks; tracking and reporting forecast and actuals against them. Works with project sponsor programme managers and business benefit owners to support identification tracking and delivery of benefits set out in business case. Ensures realisation of benefits for business through planning and designing project outputs meet business/programme requirements and desired outcomes
Project Budget and Cost Management. Manages budgets for projects. Controls and reports on forecasts changes and actual costs against the budgets
Governance. Establishes and maintains effective governance and decision making for the delivery of projects; defines clear roles responsibilities and accountabilities that align with programme and/or organisational practice and requirements
Project Plans and Controls. Designs consolidates and documents the fundamental components of projects (scope schedule approach resource requirements budgets risks opportunities and issues and quality requirements). Establishes and implements where necessary protocols to change the scope of projects and update of configuration documents as required
Scheduling and Dependency Management. Develops produces and maintains schedules for project activities that takes account of dependencies resource requirements and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of project outputs and associated benefits. Maps project dependencies and identifies owners builds dependency management into the projects governance cycle. Works with programme/project managers and business leads to ensure dependencies are actively managed acts as an arbiter and enforcer and resolves issues between the various elements of the project
Project Resource Management. Develops implements and updates resource allocations plans (other than finance) needed for projects (incl. external required resources) taking account of availabilities and scheduling variances
Stakeholder and Communications Management. Identifies and manages pertinent project stakeholder relationships (taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests) communications and need for senior level support. Ensures continual alignment with programme (if applicable) wider portfolio management and organisation communications. Manages internal and external relationships as appropriate. Proactively Identifies addresses and seeks to resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups
Project Risks and Issues Management. Identifies and monitors project risks (threats and opportunities) and issues. Develops mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identifies and works with related projects to manage interdependencies

Location:

Dubai

Brand:

Dentsu

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

Required Experience:

Manager