Project Manager Middle East

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

Job summary

A healthcare technology provider is seeking a Project Manager to lead upgrade projects across the Middle East. The successful candidate will manage the Services team, ensure project readiness, and drive quality outcomes in upgrade delivery. The role requires proven program management experience in healthcare software, strong leadership skills, and familiarity with clinical systems. A Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2) is preferred. This position is key in facilitating communication and accountability between teams, ensuring feature adoption post-upgrade.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in program or project management within enterprise software in healthcare.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and coordination abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Services Team delivering upgrades and patches.
• Maintain oversight of the full upgrade queue.
• Coordinate with customers and stakeholders for project readiness.
• Identify and implement improvements to project execution.
• Ensure upgrades are delivered to a high standard.

Skills

Program management experience in healthcare

Understanding of upgrade delivery cycles

Leadership skills

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Familiarity with clinical systems

Education

Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2)

Job description

Role Summary

The Project Manager will lead the planning, coordination, and execution of TrakCare and IntelliCare upgrade projects across the Middle East. This role is responsible for managing the Services team, ensuring project readiness, and driving quality outcomes across a growing pipeline of upgrade and enhancement work. The Project Manager will play a key role in increasing delivery capacity, aligning internal and customer stakeholders, and ensuring that post-upgrade feature adoption is realised.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the Services Team: Line manage, lead and support the Services team delivering upgrades, patches, and configuration projects across TrakCare and IntelliCare environments.
• Own the Upgrade Pipeline: Maintain oversight of the full upgrade queue across all regional customers. Prioritise, sequence, and track progress against delivery plans.
• Ensure Project Readiness: Coordinate with customers, Support, Development, and other stakeholders to ensure all prerequisites – such as environments, test plans/scripts, resources, and approvals – are in place prior to execution.
• Increase Upgrade Throughput: Identify and implement improvements to project execution, reduce bottlenecks, and scale delivery capacity to meet growing demand.
• Drive Quality Outcomes: Ensure upgrades are delivered to a high standard, with minimal disruption and clear benefits to the customer.
• Align on Desired Outcomes: Facilitate clear understanding and documentation of the outcomes customers expect from each upgrade, and ensure delivery efforts align to those expectations, including co‑ordinating post‑upgrade resourcing.
• Ensure Feature Adoption Post‑Upgrade: Work cross‑functionally and cross‑departmentally to follow up after go‑live, ensuring new features are properly configured and delivering value.
• Liaise Across Teams: In regard to upgrades, act as the central coordination point between Support, Account Management, Application and Technical teams, ensuring seamless communication and accountability.

Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience in program or project management within enterprise software in healthcare or EHR environments.
• Deep understanding of upgrade delivery cycles and post‑deployment adoption challenges.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and coordination abilities.
• Ability to drive process improvement and scale operational delivery.
• Familiarity with TrakCare or similar clinical systems is essential.
• Project Management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2) preferred.

About InterSystems

InterSystems, a creative data technology provider, delivers a unified foundation for next‑generation applications for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain customers in more than 80 countries. Our data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe to unlock the power of data and allow people to perceive data in imaginative ways. Established in 1978, InterSystems is committed to excellence through its 24×7 support for customers and partners around the world. Privately held and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, InterSystems has 38 offices in 28 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit InterSystems.com.