Project Manager - Business Transformation
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.
Key Skills for This Role
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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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