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Role Overview
Senior Project Manager, Saudi National. Horizontal Digital. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Company Overview
Horizontal Digital is a digital consultancy that partners with Fortune 500 companies to create websites, apps, portals, and customer experiences. The company fuses strategy, data, design, and technology to deliver solutions that prioritize customer needs and set industry standards.
Role Purpose
Lead full lifecycle digital transformation projects from inception to implementation using agile methodologies. Provide oversight, strategic direction, and team leadership to deliver high-quality digital solutions on time and within budget.
Key Responsibilities
Project Planning & Definition
- Define project objectives, scope, estimate, timeline, and level of effort.
- Develop project strategies and plans and identify the methods and tools required for the project.
- Work closely with end users, business technologists, and other stakeholders to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs.
- Develop system requirements and design specifications.
- Direct efforts to refine conceptual systems design requirements into technical design.
Project Execution & Oversight
- Provide agile project management oversight for multiple projects.
- 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.
Scope & Change Management
- Manage scope by coordinating and responding to requests for changes from original specifications.
Quality Assurance
- Ensure quality through planning, execution, quality assurance, and quality control techniques.
Risk Management
- Identify, analyze, and mitigate risks to maximize results and minimize consequences.
Team Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Provide solutions, leadership, and motivation to project team members.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 5 years of client-facing digital project management experience, preferably using agile methodologies.
- Minimum 2 years of agency or consultancy experience; 5+ years preferred.
- Minimum 2 years of experience managing large-scale website projects that include discovery, strategy, user experience, creative design, front-end development, website development, QA, deployments, and maintenance.
- Prior exposure to digital marketing solutions such as Sitecore and Salesforce.
Skills & Competencies
- Agile project management methodologies.
- Organized with excellent time management skills.
- Proactive issue identification and problem-solving.
- Natural leader with strong self-motivation and initiative.
- Mentoring and team development capability.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Presentation preparation and delivery ability.
- Jira and Confluence experience preferred.
- Ability to earn SCRUM certification within 90 days.
Additional Information
- Saudi National eligibility required.
- 22 days holiday per year.
- Comprehensive medical insurance plan covering employee, spouse, and children.
- Visa sponsorship for employee, spouse, and children if required.
- Flexible office times and working from home twice per week.
- Remote working from a place of your choice for 2 weeks per year.