Principal – Delivery Management Services

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of major programs and strategic initiatives across multiple client engagements.
• Oversee planning, execution, governance, budgets, risks, stakeholder management, and performance reporting.
• Serve as senior client contact; lead and develop multidisciplinary teams and oversee resourcing across projects.
• Establish delivery standards, methodologies, tools, and quality requirements; ensure timely, high-quality client deliverables.
• Manage delivery, financial, contractual, and reputational risks and mitigation measures.
• Build senior stakeholder relationships across government, government-related, and private-sector organizations.
• Develop business opportunities and lead proposals covering solutions, delivery approach, staffing, pricing, and commercial considerations.
• Grow the service offering and internal methodologies, tools, knowledge, and capabilities; collaborate across service areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Public Policy, or a related field; a Master’s degree, MBA, MPA, or equivalent is preferred.
• Minimum 10+ years of progressive program and/or project delivery experience, including significant leadership responsibilities.
• Experience in a leading consulting firm, PMO, major program delivery organization, or similar environment.
• Proven delivery of large-scale, complex, multi-stakeholder programs and management of multidisciplinary teams and multiple engagements.
• Demonstrated senior client and stakeholder management experience; strong knowledge of the UAE market, particularly Abu Dhabi’s public-sector and government-related entities.
• Public-sector transformation, strategic programs, major initiatives, events, or public-private partnership experience is highly valued.
• Proven business development, proposal development, and new-engagement securing experience.
• Strong program and project management, commercial, communication, negotiation, client-management, problem-solving, and executive reporting capabilities.