Senior IT Program Manager: End-to-End Delivery

Al Ghurair; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Al Ghurair is seeking an IT Senior Project Manager to oversee end-to-end delivery of critical programs and changes, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and high-quality outcomes aligned to business needs. You will manage stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams to deploy solutions with operational handover and measurable adoption.

Responsibilities include defining delivery strategy, governance, managing budgets, and ensuring automation and data analytics are embedded in projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience delivering programs / application projects with ownership of scope, schedule and budget.
• Preferred: 15 years delivering enterprise application implementations.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery strategy for assigned programs and select agile, waterfall or hybrid methods.
• Establish application project governance with steering cadence and change control.
• Drive portfolio alignment by managing dependencies across applications and data.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, architecture, security, and data for enterprise standards.
• Lead vendor delivery across multiple stakeholders with SOW/SLA adherence.
• Maintain program plans, budgets, contracts, procurement and status decks.
• Ensure deliveries emphasize automation, AI, and data analytics.

Skills

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Project governance

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

PMP or PRINCE2

Agile certifications (CSM/PSM/SAFe)

Project Management Certification (preferred)

Job description

Al Ghurair is seeking an IT Senior Project Manager to oversee end-to-end delivery of critical programs and changes, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and high-quality outcomes aligned to business needs. You will manage stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams to deploy solutions with operational handover and measurable adoption.

Responsibilities include defining delivery strategy, governance, managing budgets, and ensuring automation and data analytics are embedded in projects.