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Project Manager - Business Transformation

edari
Dubai, UAE
Full-time
Entry
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Business transformationDigital transformationProject managementBusiness process transformationStakeholder managementVendor management

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Role overview

Lead and deliver strategic business transformation projects for a large semi-government entity in Dubai.

The role sits within the Strategy & Value Creation team and is a six-month renewable contract.

Projects span technology, digital, business processes, operations, and functional departments.

Project delivery

  • Manage projects from scoping and requirements gathering through planning, implementation, stabilization, and benefits realization.
  • Translate strategic objectives into plans, deliverables, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Manage scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, and critical paths across multiple workstreams.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and work with department heads, senior stakeholders, technology teams, and project teams.
  • Manage vendors and third-party partners, including delivery, timing, dependencies, and commercial commitments.
  • Coordinate testing, UAT, process changes, implementation, migration, and rollout where applicable.

Transformation and governance

  • Lead process improvement, operating model, digital transformation, and technology-enabled change initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities to improve processes, systems, customer journeys, ways of working, and operational efficiency.
  • Support change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, and business readiness.
  • Monitor project financials and budgets; track benefits, KPIs, and outcomes against intended business value.
  • Provide project updates, reporting, and escalations to senior stakeholders and leadership.

Experience and capabilities

  • Strong experience delivering complex business, digital, technology-enabled transformation, or enterprise change projects.
  • Experience managing projects across multiple business units, functional departments, and large stakeholder groups.
  • Strong understanding of business process transformation, operational improvement, organizational change, and project delivery controls.
  • Experience working across technology, digital, operations, and functional business teams, and managing vendors or consultants.
  • Strong stakeholder management, including work with senior leaders and department heads.
  • Good understanding of change management and business adoption; strong financial and commercial understanding of project delivery.
  • Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams in a large, matrixed organization with a technology-agnostic approach.
  • Technology implementations, digital initiatives, process improvement, or system transformation experience is preferred.

Availability

  • Candidates available immediately or with a maximum 30-day notice period after accepting an offer are preferred.
  • Candidates must be able to work in the United Arab Emirates.

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