ME07 Project Manager

Job Description:

Work Location (city) : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Working time model : Sun-Thurs (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)

Mandatory/Preferred Skills:

• 9+ years project management experience
• Hands-on experience with developing web technologies and software platforms for maximum usability
• Proven success working with all levels of management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Very Strong Stake holder Management Skills

Mandatory/Preferred Language Skills:

• Arabic - Preferred
• English - Mandatory

Additional information:

• Project Management Experience - Mandatory - 5 Years
• Experience in Managing Teams - Mandatory - 5 Years
• Stakeholder/Client Management Mandatory - 4 Years
• Knowledge on cloud Applications Preferred - 2 years
• PMP/ Management Certifications Mandatory
• Development Background .Net/Java Mandatory 5 years

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
• Owns the product roadmap.
• Develop scope and define backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.
• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.
• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.
• Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners.
• Assess value, develops cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Identifies and helps the client understand the business model, value and value proposition.
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
• A leader of the team.
• Represents team in front of stakeholders, clients or users.
• A member of the team.
• Work closely with product management and senior management in order to create a product that fits the company portfolio.
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
  Follow our competitors and the industry
• Increase an understanding of Agile practices, Lean Startup, new technologies opportunities and other new trends.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Build and develop the project team to ensure maximum performance, providing purpose, direction, and motivation
• Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans, including risk mitigation
• To coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments
• Analyze project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that project team adheres to project requirements
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes
• Establish and maintain processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle, setting project quality and performance standards, and assessing and managing risk within, and across, multiple projects
• Structure and manage integrated, multi-track project performance databases for multiple digital, print, social, broadcast, and experiential projects, with an eye on overall progress
• Develop and maintain partnerships with outside resources-including third-party vendors and researchers
• Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximize deliverable outputs
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed-escalating issues as necessary based on project work plan
• Professional certificationincluding PMP/PRINCE II
• Previous success in producing deliverable software platforms
• Strong attention to deadlines and budgetary guidelines
• Experience developing in-house platforms for internal processes
• Experience coaching and educating project teams to strengthen team members capabilities and skill sets.
• Development Background with .Net/Java technology stack is must
• Knowledge on Cloud Technologies like Azure/AWS/Google Cloud

Note: 

• First Preference: Suadi Nations Who can join immediately
• Second Preference: Near by countries Who can join within couple of weeks consider the travel
• Third Preference: Open for Other countries