Senior Project Manager

Stryker Corporation; Al Khobar; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading global medical technology firm in Al Khobar seeks a Project Manager to oversee project planning and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate will possess an Engineering Bachelor's Degree and 3 years of relevant experience. Responsibilities include managing project scopes, risks, and resources while ensuring successful project delivery. This role offers a dynamic work environment in a company committed to innovation and diversity.

Qualifications

• Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (13 months to 3 years).
• Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources (13 months to 3 years).

Responsibilities

• Produce project plans ensuring compliance with project management framework.
• Lead delivery of stakeholder consultation activities and specify project deliverables.
• Manage identification and escalation of risks and issues associated with the project.
• Draft project review reports and presentations for stakeholders.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Negotiation

Education

Engineering Bachelor's Degree (preferred Instrumentation and Controls)

Job description

Not just a job, but a career

Yokogawa, award winner for 'Best Asset Monitoring Technology' and 'Best Digital Twin Technology' at the HP Awards, is a leading provider of industrial automation, test and measurement, information systems and industrial services in several industries.

Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition, (bio)technology, artificial intelligence, industrial cybersecurity, etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

About the Team

Our 18,000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission, to 'co-innovate tomorrow'. We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our planet. In return, we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Project Planning

  Produce workstream or project plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project management framework.

• Project Scope Definition

  Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.

• Stakeholder Management

  Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective project working relationships and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.

• Project Risk and Issue Management

  Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these.

• Project Team Management

  Lead a medium to large project team; defines the project vision and communicates the outcomes needed along with guidance to achieve outcome, coordinates team actions on project activities; coordinates flow of additional team members on and off the team as needed; and works to build the capability of the team through training, coaching and mentoring.

• Project Assurance

  Conduct assurance reviews within the project, facilitate the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified so that senior stakeholders have confidence that the project can deliver to time, budget, and quality.

• Project Resource Management

  Manage the deployment of project resources, proactively managing project costs, providing forecasts, and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.

• Project Benefit Realization

  Deliver baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to evaluate and track the realization of business benefits.

• Project Close-out and Handover

  Provide appropriate documentation and training to enable successful transition to business as usual. Identify and record lessons learned to inform future project activity.

• Project Reporting and Review

  Draft project review reports and presentations, including key information, commentary, and recommendations to support the review process and enable stakeholders to evaluate progress and agree on change.

Behavioral Competencies

• Manages Complexity

  Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. Consistently looks at complex issues from many angles; obtains a rich and deep understanding; swiftly cuts to the core issue; skillfully separates root causes from symptoms.

• Drives Results

  Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances. Holds self to high standards of performance; sets some challenging goals; pursues initiatives to successful completion. Focuses on key goals, even during setbacks and obstacles.

• Develops Talent

  Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals. Shares ideas, insight, and best practices to help people reach their development goals and achieve optimal results. Provides targeted feedback in a prompt, constructive, and encouraging manner.

• Drives Vision and Purpose

  Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action. Operates with a clear sense of purpose that gives meaning to everyday activities. Advances the organization’s vision and ensures own efforts align with the workgroup's mission.

• Situational Adaptability

  Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations. Takes steps to adapt to changing needs, conditions, priorities, or opportunities. Understands cues that suggest a change in approach is needed and adopts new behaviors accordingly.

Skills

• Project Management

  Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.

• Prioritizing

  Works at an advanced level to prioritize components of a project, program, or portfolio work in context with risks, activities, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program.

• Project Communications Management

  Works at an advanced level to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, archiving, and disposition of project information.

• Data Collection and Analysis

  Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.

• Project Change Management

  Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on identifying, managing and controlling project-related changes.

• Project Quality Management

  Works with full competence to manage the work that determines the quality policies, procedures, and responsibilities so the work satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken.

• Project Resource Planning and Control

  Works at an advanced level to identify, acquire, and manage the resources (physical and human) for the project.

• Verify Requirements

  Works with full competence to create the rules for requirements and design quality, perform verification activities, and maintain quality control.

• Negotiation

  Negotiates without supervision and provides guidance when required on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.

• Project Risk and Issue Management

  Works without supervision and provides guidance when required on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing project-related risks.

• Project Estimating

  Works at an advanced level to estimate each of the components of project, program, or portfolio work, including costs, activity durations, resource needs, risks, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program.

• Project Meetings and Ceremonies

  Works at an advanced level to lead program related meetings, keeping focus on agenda, issues, workflow, and associated agile ceremony requirements.

• Project Organization and Structure

  Works at an advanced level to build the structure and culture of the project team, and define roles and responsibilities within that structure to enable the achievement of project mission and objectives and the effective operation of key business processes.

• Project Cost and Budget Management

  Works with full competence to estimate and manage the effort and finances to complete the work within budget.

• Project Integration Management

  Works with full competence to identify, define, unify, and coordinate the various processes and activities to integrate the project management activities.

• Project Schedule Management

  Works without supervision and provides guidance when required on sequencing and scheduling tasks into a project plan.

• Project Tracking and Reporting

  Works without supervision and provides guidance when required on measuring and reporting progress toward intermediate targets to make sure a project stays on track to achieve its ultimate goals.

• Stakeholder Expectation Management

  Works with full competence to identify potential stakeholders, analyze their expectations, and develop strategies for managing stakeholders and their expectations.

Education

Engineering Bachelor's Degree (preferred Instrumentation and Controls)

General Experience

Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (13 months to 3 years)

Managerial Experience

Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)

Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. We will actively recruit, develop, and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience, knowledge, thinking styles, perspective, cultural background, and socioeconomic status. We will not discriminate based on race, skin color, age, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, belief, political opinion, nationality, ethnicity, place of origin, disability, family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong, contribute, succeed, and demonstrate their full potential.

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