Regional Digitalization Program Leader – Middle East

Honeywell; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 280,000 - 440,000; Full time

Job summary

Honeywell is seeking a Program Manager to lead digitalization programs across the Middle East region, ensuring customer outcomes, commercial targets, and operational excellence. You will guide governance, risk management, and adoption of best practices for cloud-enabled, cybersecurity-enabled delivery and integration programs.

The role requires strong leadership in a matrix environment, influence with senior stakeholders, and a proven track record of delivering measurable business value through

Qualifications

• Minimum 10–15 years of experience in program management, digital transformation, or technology-enabled services.
• Experience managing complex multi-country programs in the Middle East region preferred.
• Strong governance, risk, and stakeholder communications skills; executive reporting experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of regional digitalization programs including scope schedule budget quality risk customer satisfaction revenue and gross margin performance.
• Establish and maintain robust program governance including steering committees executive reviews program health dashboards escalation paths risk registers action tracking and decision logs.
• Lead cross-functional teams across project management engineering product software cybersecurity data cloud services commercial legal finance and partner organizations.
• Drive predictable execution across multiple countries and customer sites by standardizing program lifecycle practices phase gates delivery cadences documentation and reporting.
• Translate customer business objectives into clear digital program outcomes success measures adoption plans and value realization roadmaps.
• Support revenue forecasting accuracy billing milestones cash collection change order management and financial reviews in alignment with operating plans.
• Identify assess and mitigate delivery risks related to scope technology integration data readiness cybersecurity resources vendors localization regulatory requirements and customer dependencies.
• Serve as the first level of management escalation for strategic customers in the region on program delivery execution issues and stakeholder alignment.
• Partner with sales customer success product engineering and services teams to ensure digital solutions are delivered in line with customer commitments and regional growth priorities.
• Drive adoption of program management tools digital workflows dashboards analytics and reporting mechanisms to improve visibility predictability and execution discipline.
• Ensure compliance with internal project management standards quality processes safety expectations commercial policies cybersecurity practices and applicable regional requirements.
• Build coach and develop project and program management talent across the region encouraging a culture of accountability collaboration continuous improvement and customer focus.
• Capture lessons learned from major programs and institutionalize best practices to improve future delivery performance and scalability.
• Represent the regional program management function in business reviews customer executive meetings internal governance forums and strategic planning discussions.

Skills

Governance

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Digital transformation

PM certifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Advanced degree in Business Management

Tools

PM software

Job description

Honeywell is seeking a Program Manager to lead digitalization programs across the Middle East region, ensuring customer outcomes, commercial targets, and operational excellence. You will guide governance, risk management, and adoption of best practices for cloud-enabled, cybersecurity-enabled delivery and integration programs.

The role requires strong leadership in a matrix environment, influence with senior stakeholders, and a proven track record of delivering measurable business value through