Assistant Digital Projects Manager

Role Overview

Assistant Digital Projects Manager at Al Tayer Group in Dubai, UAE. The role is responsible for planning and coordinating the management of complex business-critical digital projects, taking a cross-functional leadership role to ensure business plans are executed well across all organizational units and, where applicable, with third parties, while ensuring projects are delivered within scope, on time, and on budget.

Role Purpose

To plan, coordinate and deliver complex digital projects across Al Tayer Group using Agile methodologies, maintaining cross-functional alignment and removing impediments to ensure timely delivery of business-critical initiatives within scope and budget.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Execution

• Conduct project planning for assigned work streams following Agile methodology.
• Plan, document, execute and manage projects through all phases including close-out.
• Manage tasks, deliverables and milestones.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Utilize best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify and track project issues, risks, decisions and action items.
• Maintain awareness of all issues facing the project and work with stakeholders to develop solutions.
• Identify innovative solutions to project deadlocks and resolve issues and constraints through consensus and sound judgment.

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

• Manage cross-team dependencies, help identify and remove impediments and escalate to AGM Digital when necessary.
• Proactively establish good working relationships with all project team members and representatives of all impacted organizations.
• Help resolve conflicts as and when required.
• Lead all delivery-related meetings and activities of the project team.
• Encourage, support and guide continuous improvement of people, products and processes.

Status & Communication

• Perform daily and weekly status updates and update team dashboards.
• Plan and schedule meetings as necessary, create agendas and document minutes.
• Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information, trends and project metrics.

Change & Quality Management

• Manage changes to plans through change controls and re-baseline processes.
• Help prepare work stream deliverables and submit them ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Focus on quality and delivering the highest business value in the shortest time.

Resource Planning

• Identify need for initial or supplemental project resources.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
• Three to five years of Project Management experience.
• Good understanding of project and program management with good experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience taking a product through its complete lifecycle using Agile methodologies.
• Ability to balance a practical, real-world approach with an Agile philosophy to complete tasks in a timely manner.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong people management skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Strong understanding of regional market as well as international context.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Proficiency in Autoline (preferred).
• English language proficiency.

Additional Information

• Required to commute across regions within the UAE.