Project Manager

Dentsu; Dubai; On-site; AED 335,000 - 670,000; Full time

Job summary

Dentsu in Dubai is seeking a Project Manager to lead and deliver complex initiatives within defined scope, time, cost, and quality constraints. The role emphasizes governance, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional teamwork to ensure value delivery.

The successful candidate will coordinate project business cases, manage budgets and resources, and oversee planning, scheduling, risks, and change control in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading cross-functional project teams.
• Strong governance and budgeting capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage project scope, schedule, cost and quality.

Responsibilities

• Project Leadership: creates and leads the project team to deliver outputs within scope, time, cost, and quality.
• Project Team Management: manages day-to-day project team activities and defines roles and responsibilities.
• Project Business Case and Benefits Management: supports business case creation and benefit tracking.
• Project Budget and Cost Management: manages project budgets and reports on forecasts and actuals.
• Governance: establishes governance and decision-making aligned with practice.
• Project Plans and Controls: designs and documents scope, schedule, resources, budgets, risks, opportunities, and quality.
• Scheduling and Dependency Management: develops and maintains schedules and manages dependencies.
• Project Resource Management: develops and updates resource allocation plans.
• Stakeholder and Communications Management: manages stakeholder relationships and communications.
• Project Risks and Issues Management: identifies risks and proposes mitigations.

Skills

Project Leadership

Team Management

Budget & Cost Control

Governance & Compliance

Scheduling & Planning

Risk & Issues Management

Stakeholder Communications

Dependency Management

Resource Management

Job description

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 escape as appropriate. Identifies and works with related projects to manage interdependencies

Location:

Dubai

Brand:

Dentsu

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Outsourced

Required Experience:

IC