Transformation Manager

Al Jawad; Dubai; On-site; AED 220,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Al Jawad Transformation Manager role focuses on running multi-month transformation programmes that alter operating models beyond software fixes. You will sit between the client's executive sponsor and our delivery teams, ensuring the programme keeps its shape when sponsorship shifts or resistance appears.

You will own governance, keep a named owner for change workstreams, report monthly against the engagement metric, and shape the commercial aspects with the Commercial Director, escalat ing

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in consulting or programme delivery, including regional work.
• Experience of a programme that failed, and a clear account of why.
• Comfort holding an executive to a commitment they made three months ago.
• Structured thinking under pressure and in front of a board.
• Arabic and English, professionally.

Responsibilities

• Own programme governance: workstreams, gates, decisions and escalation.
• Keep change management as a real workstream with a named owner and a metric.
• Report monthly against the operating metric written into the engagement.
• Manage the commercial shape of the programme alongside the Commercial Director.
• Escalate honestly and early when a phase is not going to land.

Skills

Programme governance

Change management

Executive stakeholder management

Structured thinking

Arabic and English proficiency

Education

PMP or ERP/digital transformation background

Job description

Transformation Manager

You will run multi-month transformation programmes where the client's operating model changes, not only their software.

You sit between the client's executive sponsor and our delivery teams. You are accountable for the programme holding its shape when the sponsor moves role, the scope shifts, or the organisation resists the change it asked for.

What you will do

• Own programme governance: workstreams, gates, decisions and escalation.
• Keep change management as a real workstream with a named owner and a metric.
• Report monthly against the operating metric written into the engagement.
• Manage the commercial shape of the programme alongside the Commercial Director.
• Escalate honestly and early when a phase is not going to land.

What we need

• Seven or more years in consulting or programme delivery, including regional work.
• Experience of a programme that failed, and a clear account of why.
• Comfort holding an executive to a commitment they made three months ago.
• Structured thinking under pressure and in front of a board.
• Arabic and English, professionally.

Nice to have PMP or equivalent ERP or digital transformation background Public-sector or healthcare experience