Emiratization Program Manager

Overview

The Role

Key Accountabilities

• Partner with the Programme Director to deliver the end-to-end project lifecycle, achieving key milestones on time and within budget.
• Identify, manage, and escalate risks and issues effectively, producing clear, concise summaries and management-ready reporting.
• Take a pragmatic, flexible approach to planning and prioritization of tasks, deliverables, and resources, adapt quickly to unforeseen change; apply a test-and-learn mindset, recommend better ways of working, and constructively challenge the status quo.
• Manage material changes to scope, schedule, resourcing, or budget through formal change control processes; understand and champion design thinking across ideation and delivery.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of complex business drivers and imperatives, applying critical thinking and structured problem-solving to bring discipline to large-scale, ambiguous challenges.
• Build credibility through strong interpersonal skills, translating complex information into clear, influential messages; coordinate across cross-functional teams and stakeholders to secure timely decisions.
• Drive change adoption to embed outcomes and realize benefits, combining strong programme/project management discipline with pace and quality of delivery.
• Apply deep knowledge of risk and control taxonomy, including identification, ownership, management, and reporting of inherent and residual risks and control positions.
• Own delivery of one or more global transformation projects from initiation to closure, using agreed delivery frameworks (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) and appropriate tooling.
• Define outcomes, success measures, and benefits realization plans; track progress, report transparently, and take corrective action where required.
• Establish and run governance forums (e.g., SteerCo and working groups), producing high-quality packs, RAID logs, plans, financials, and status reports with clear narrative and explicit decisions required.
• Build strong partnerships across global and regional stakeholders, balancing competing priorities, driving decisions, and maintaining alignment across boundaries.
• Embed risk management and control-by-design, ensuring adherence to relevant policies, regulatory expectations, and audit requirements (refer to applicable FIM/departmental instructions as needed).
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans (scope, schedule, resources, budget), manage dependencies and critical path, and drive execution at pace.
• Partner with Change, Communications, and Training teams to deliver adoption, readiness, and sustainable change, managing impacts to operating model, processes, and people.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and (where applicable) vendor spend, ensuring value for money and transparent cost control.
• Lead matrix teams, coach contributors, and foster a collaborative, inclusive environment that values different perspectives and delivers results.
• Continuously improve delivery practices by simplifying, standardizing, and automating where possible; capturing lessons learned and embedding improvements.
• In order to apply for the role you must have the following:
• A graduation degree is essential for obtaining a UAE visa and work permit. If your university certificate is from outside the UAE, up-to-date attestations and equivalency are also mandatory (Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications Issued Outside The UAE) Demonstrated track record delivering large-scale, multi-workstream transformations within global, regulated environments.
• Strong capability in project governance, integrated planning, RAID management, and executive-level reporting.
• Highly effective stakeholder manager, able to secure decisions and maintain alignment across matrix organizations.
• Sound understanding of financial services risk and control expectations.
• Strong analytical skills, translating strategy into executable plans with clear, measurable outcomes.
• Confident communicator—clear, concise, and able to tailor messages to different audiences and levels of seniority.
• Experience delivering operating model change, process re-engineering (Lean/Six Sigma), and/or digital transformation.
• Familiar with Agile delivery approaches (Scrum/Kanban) and hybrid delivery models.
• Exposure to data-led initiatives, automation, and/or platform migration programmes.
• Extensive project management experience, with evidence of delivering complex change, managing senior stakeholders, and working effectively across regions and functions.
• For further details and application information please visit our careers site, searching for reference number

45067