Manager-Project IT
Julphar
- Ras al-Khaimah
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the implementation of medium to largescale projects, following Project management, IT strategies that enable Julphar to manage business objectives.
- Coordinate with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
- Ensure compliance with budget and other project requirements and create and manage project budgets.
- Provide guidance to management as well as internal and external stakeholders on project status.
- Assume ownership of project deliverables and day-to-day management of entire project from the beginning to end.
- Setting up Steering, Project committee and communication with the steering committee members and project sponsor
- Monitor and review project progress and resources.
- Facilitate communication with the global team and help conflict resolution, if conflicts arise, escalate issues and seek resolution.
- Facilitate sign offs and Completion of Trainings within the stipulated project timelines.
- Work closely with Line of business, manage Business deliverables, highlight and manage risk.
- Setting targets for milestones, adhering to deadlines and allocating resources.
- Making effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project.
- Performing quality control on the project throughout to maintain the standards expected.
- Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
- Submitting project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards.
- Preparing status reports by gathering, analysing, and summarizing relevant information.
- Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
- Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
- Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
- Identifying and developing new opportunities with project team.
- Obtaining Business acceptance of project deliverables.
- Managing Business satisfaction within the project transition period.
- Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- ERP Preferably SAP, project oversight.
- In terms of competency you are highly result oriented with strong sense of accountability & ownership.
- Demonstrated ability to manage/complete projects successfully.
- Strong attention to details and project management skills
- Strong troubleshooting and technical experience and ability to do root cause analysis
- Having an analytical mind with ability to think diversely and understand the big picture of the Organization.
- Risk assessment ability, understanding the threat and its impact on the business processes.
- The role holder must be a go getter who can lead, facilitate & implement system change
- Must have a solution centric mind to understand issues and solve them within a stipulated time frame, should possess decision making skill for smooth functioning
- Work effectively on assigned projects by ensuring proper resource utilization from the team
- Excellent in stakeholders' management, team building skill, professional and reliable in approach
- Excellent collaboration skill & customer service mindset to understand the business need
- Demonstrated experience in providing critical input to senior and corporate management
- 4 years Bachelor's degree in IT is mandatory
- Master's degree in IT is a plus.
- At least 8 - 10 years of IT project management experience and Pharma end-to-end project life cycle, complex Projects with multiple integrations, END to END ERP Implementation Projects and experience managing midsize to large teams.
- Proficient in using SAP and implementing Project management tool and software across the organizations, for different platforms.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Able to integrate with different and complex SAP Logistics modules.
- Experienced in leading, facilitating and contributing to project workshops and requirement gathering sessions.
- Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.
- Fluent in English & Arabic as a plus.
- Proficient in Microsoft office tools including Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.