Senior Project Manager - Salesforce

Horizontal Digital; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital consultancy firm in the United Arab Emirates is looking for an experienced Project Manager to oversee multiple projects, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of client-facing digital project management experience and is skilled in agile methodologies. Strong communication and leadership are essential, along with familiarity with tools like Jira and Sitecore. Arabic language skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years client-facing digital project management experience, preferably using agile methodologies.
• Minimum of 2 years agency/consultancy experience.
• Minimum of 2 years managing large-scale website projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide agile project management oversight for multiple projects.
• Develop project strategies and plans while monitoring progress.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve problems.

Skills

Agile project management

Client-facing communication

Leadership

Time management

Problem-solving

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Sitecore

Salesforce

Job description

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra drives our digital consultancy to think beyond easy answers and create intuitive, empathetic experiences that solve customer needs for ambitious companies.

We fuse strategy, data, design, and technology to set higher standards for everyone. Our values power superior results: we forge relationships that make our impact 1,000× stronger, hustle to anticipate opportunities, embrace change, elevate empathy, and never settle.

What you’ll do:

• Provide agile project management oversight for multiple projects: define objectives, scope, estimates, timelines, and level of effort.
• Develop project strategies and plans, identifying methods and tools required.
• Keep projects on track and on budget while resolving issues with clients.
• Monitor progress and budget against plan.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Manage scope by coordinating and responding to requests for changes from original specifications.
• Ensure quality through planning, execution, quality assurance, and control techniques.
• Identify, analyze, and mitigate risks to maximize results and reduce consequences.
• Work closely with end users, business technologists, and stakeholders to understand and prioritize business goals, develop system requirements and design specifications, and refine system design.
• Provide solutions, leadership, and motivation to project team members.

Who you are:

• You get it done and have grit.
• You are organized, manage time well, and foresee issues before they arise.
• You maintain a positive attitude and deliver high‑quality work for clients.
• You are a natural leader with strong initiative and follow‑through.
• You mentor others habitually.
• You are eager to succeed and understand that effort leads to achievement.
• You are an outstanding communicator, conveying information to stakeholders in both written and verbal formats.
• You prepare and deliver presentations as a second nature.

What you bring:

• A minimum of 5 years client‑facing digital project management experience, preferably using agile methodologies.
• A minimum of 2 years agency/consultancy experience.
• A minimum of 2 years managing large‑scale website projects covering discovery, strategy, UX, design, front‑end development, QA, deployments, and maintenance.
• Prior exposure to digital marketing solutions such as Sitecore and Salesforce.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence preferred.
• Ability to earn SCRUM certification within 90 days.
• Arabic language skills are useful but not essential.

The above description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.