Project Manager

Role Overview

Project Manager at Alfanar. This role is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects on time, within scope, and to required quality standards.

Role Purpose

Coordinate with stakeholders, manage risks and changes, and ensure effective communication and reporting throughout the project lifecycle to achieve successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning and Delivery

• Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Define project scope, objectives, and success criteria.
• Coordinate project activities and resources.
• Monitor execution to ensure timely delivery of project outcomes.

Stakeholder and Team Management

• Engage and coordinate with project stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication among project teams and business owners.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and project requirements.
• Conduct project meetings and follow up on action items.

Risk, Issue, and Change Management

• Identify and assess project risks and issues.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Manage and review project change requests.
• Escalate critical risks, issues, and changes when required.

Quality and Performance Monitoring

• Monitor project performance against approved plans.
• Review deliverables against acceptance criteria.
• Ensure compliance with project standards and quality requirements.
• Track project KPIs and report progress to stakeholders.

Governance, Reporting, and Vendor Coordination

• Prepare project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
• Apply approved project management methodologies and templates.
• Support the preparation of scopes of work and project documentation.
• Coordinate with vendors and monitor contractual deliverables.

People and Team Leadership

• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers and create a robust second line of management.
• Recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Treat subordinates equally without discrimination.
• Assess subordinates based on performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix with sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Business Planning and Performance

• Transform corporate goals into business plans.
• Plan, follow up, and execute annual and development plans.
• Monitor plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results.
• Take corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Monitor and control budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development

• Develop organizational structure according to current requirements, taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements

• Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures.
• Seek automation opportunities.
• Navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business.
• Promote automated systems and their culture.

Health, Safety, and Environment

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.

Operational Accountability

• Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and required deliverables.
• Anticipate problems and take necessary proactive steps to prevent them.
• Make necessary and proper timely decisions.
• Deliver required results in a timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Make a tangible difference in the area of operation and exceed business expectations.
• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management or any relevant field.
• 6 to 10 years of work experience.

Skills & Competencies

• Project Management.
• Project Coordination.
• Project Control.
• Project Communications.
• Project Change Management.