IT Project Manager

About This Role

Every employee at Al Rostamani Group plays a role in making a real difference to the business and our customers. We care for our employees by offering them meaningful and purposeful work and an opportunity to grow, learn, contribute and succeed. Today, the Al Rostamani Group has come a long way since its birth in 1957. Our group has grown steadfastly with the guiding principles of Commitment, Care & Vision, alongside a strong sense of active involvement in the community. We are a well-diversified group, with a key presence in industries such as General Trading, Automobiles and Heavy Equipment, Travel, Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Property Management, Construction, Infrastructure Development and Information Technology Services. Our Group employs approximately 2000 people from 41 different nationalities, which contributes to our multicultural and multi-national environment.

Job Purpose Manage and maintain Project Management methodology by Governing, controlling, promoting & monitoring a comprehensive, consistent and coherent set of unified main IT processes and procedures across all ARG activities including projects management, change management, and Documentation management to ensure high-quality IT services delivery of ARG mission critical business systems and applications, for Companies/Group departments to conduct normal continuous business activities.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage IT projects by assisting PMO in project scoping, planning, managing resources, and reporting following IT project management standard and best practice in order to deliver IT projects meeting Business requirements.
• Manage, control, promote and monitor a comprehensive, consistent and coherent set of unified main IT processes and procedures with coordination with IT process owners to have effective IT quality.
• Manage and oversee change requests processes and ensure all necessary liaising and risks management are done with all necessary stakeholders via coordinating change building, testing, implementing, documenting in accordance with schedules in order to manage the fulfilment of customer requirements.
• Oversee and sustain relations with different IT departments, IT vendors and IT customers.
• Oversee and manage suppliers and customer relationship process including development, overall coordination and managing IT customers SLAs and IT suppliers’ contracts to align IT suppliers contracts with Internal IT SLAs to gain better IT services.
• Develop, manage, empower and motivate the project staff to act in a proactive, high quality, and efficient manner to meet objectives set out in IT strategy with customer orientation.
• Manage & maintain the financials of the assigned projects, to deliver the requirement within the allotted budget of the project.
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of assigned IT demands.
• Assessing and analyzing the demand requests from various companies within ARG.
• Preparation of the IT demand proposal in coordination with the business representative.
• Provide required support in the procurement of the solution in coordination with Business & IT procurement team.
• Governing and monitoring the execution of the demand request and handle support and escalations wherever required.
• Mentor IT and business team in the selection of right solution to get the maximum output from the solution.
• Liaise between business and IT in acquiring the right solution, which aligns best with the business initiatives and within the governance framework of IT.
• Participate in solution enhancement discussions and provide necessary inputs to resolve any conflicts, and provide suggestions in improving the service.

Job Requirements Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT field;
• PMP certified;

Additional Qualification

• PMI- Agile certified Project Professional
• ITIL certified
• SCRUM Certified

Experience

• 3 - 4 years, experience as Project Manager;

Knowledge & Skills

• Have thorough experience in implementing full life cycle of a project;
• Managing project team;
• Excellent experience in MS Project;
• Positive attitude, team Player, Committed and hardworking;
• Analytical skills;
• Interpersonal skills;
• Commercial awareness;
• Communication skills;
• Team working skills;
• Ability to motivate people;
• Management and leadership skills;
• Coaching skills.

At Al Rostamani Group, we seek talented people who work hard to achieve great things. We consider not only your skills and experience, but also your passion for the role, your desire to learn and how well you align with our core values of care, commitment and vision. If this position represents an opportunity you wish to pursue, we invite you to apply.