Project Manager- Oman (Omanization)

Confidential Jobs; Muscat; On-site; OMR 15,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Jobs is seeking a Project Manager to oversee end-to-end project delivery, ensuring goals are met within time, cost and quality constraints. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, monitor progress and report on costs and risks, while driving continuous improvement and stakeholder alignment.

The role requires strong experience in software and system integration projects, plus a Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
• Proven experience leading software and system integration projects.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of the project using planning, monitoring and controlling processes.
• Plan the project to achieve goals within constraints such as time, cost and quality.
• Coordinate and complete the project by setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities and monitoring progress.
• Maintain and report the project cost, scope, timeline and quality.
• Manage changes to scope, schedule and costs using verification techniques.
• Continuously monitor key parameters and take corrective action as needed.
• Collaborate with team members and team leaders to estimate effort and plan activities.

Skills

Agile knowledge

CMMI knowledge

Six Sigma knowledge

Risk management

Requirements translation

Scope management

Acceptance criteria

Resource planning

Process improvement

Vendor management

Project closure

Learning technology

Methodologies & standards

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree IT/CS

Job description

• Oversee all aspects of the project using planning, monitoring and controlling processes.
• Responsible for planning the project in order to accomplish its goals or produce the products required within constraints such as time, cost and agreed quality standards.
• Responsible for co-ordination and completion of the project and to this end will perform a variety of tasks including setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of the project.
• Responsible for maintaining and reporting the project cost, scope, timeline, and quality
• Ability to manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Must continuously monitor project key parameters and take a corrective action in case the parameters affect the project performance.
• Work directly with the team members or with their team leaders to estimate effort, plan activities and negotiate consensus among individual team members on their appointed tasks.

Qualifications:

• Must possess Agile knowledge/experience
• CMMI knowledge/experience a plus
• 6 Sigma knowledge a plus
• Ability to identify, log, analyze and manage potential and actual issues and risks.
• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable tasks for the team
• Ability to properly manage the customer, control scope creep and gold plating
• Ability to define acceptance criteria or working with specialists to define acceptance criteria for project deliverables and will work towards achieving stakeholder acceptance of deliverables.
• Ability to develop a resource plan and communicate the resource requirements to the respective parties.
• Process improvement abilities
• Ability to manage vendors, and third-party contractors.
• Ability to bring the project to a close, which includes creating an end of project report, hold project closure meetings and activities, capture and communicate relevant lessons learned.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand the technology being used in order to understand and question requests coming from specialists and technical staff and to evaluate what is reasonable or possible.
• Must understand relevant methodologies, processes and standards and ensure that all project team members understand and follow these.
• Ability to generate many types of document, including requirement specifications, contracts, schedules, personnel records, project reports, communication (email) records, design specifications, meeting agendas, minutes and status reports.

Education / Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent Discipline

Experience:

• Must have years project management experience, managing all phases of a project lifecycle.
• Relevant Experience in Software and System Integration Solutions as Project Manager Role.