Digital Project Lead

Role Overview

Digital Project Lead at Saudi Arabia Navigation Services. The role is responsible for handling and arranging new projects following data collection, research and analysis, conducting active research to design new projects, and preparing and presenting ideas to improve current processes that impact the business.

Role Purpose

To manage new projects and actively research to design improvements, prepare and present new ideas to enhance current processes, and provide regular update reports to ensure projects remain on track within agreed budgets, set KPIs, and adopted policies and procedures. This includes budget tracking, benchmarking and milestone monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Manage project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.
• Organize, attend, and participate in stakeholder meetings.
• Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Prepare necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensure project deadlines are met and escalate non-compliance items.
• Determine and highlight project changes and develop action plans accordingly.
• Lead a portfolio of project and program management services including project and program analysis, execution, and delivery for the ITOT department.
• Supervise and manage project and program budget and cost, resource allocation, and reallocations.
• Prioritize programs and projects based on changing functional needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies.
• Communicate status of the project and program portfolio to relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain defined documentation of project scope, project targets and objectives to translate desired business benefits into clear and achievable project objectives.
• Manage scope improvements in strategic project management processes such as infrastructure services projects and service delivery processes.
• Assess project performance, draw out lessons learned, and recommend changes where necessary.
• Ensure motivation and a drive for excellence are built into project management and delivery.
• Ensure projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.
• Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
• Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.

Policies, Processes and Procedures

• Conduct day-to-day activities while ensuring compliance to policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems and processes, taking into account leading practices, changes in business environment, cost reduction and productivity improvement.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in IT.
• Working knowledge of applicable laws and standards in the industry.
• Knowledge of project analysis in a related field.
• A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science or related field is required.

Skills & Competencies

• Proficient in computer technology and Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional research and reporting skills.