Senior Project Manager

Dubai Holding Entertainment currently has an exciting career opportunity within DHE Corporate. We are looking to hire a Senior Project Manager who is responsible for planning, scheduling, and managing project timelines, dependencies, and milestones using project plans. You will be responsible for shaping the end-to-end strategy for DHE’s IT PMO and support the annual project roadmap that supports several change initiatives and service transformation towards delivery of end-to-end Application Platform services, cloud migration and enabling digital customer and employee experiences.

Key Accountabilities (Includes, but not limited to the following):

Project Delivery (60%)

• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Lead the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing of the project
• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Prioritize and delegate project tasks, providing timely direction and support to project team on a day-to-day basis
• Challenges performance gaps of project team members and provides coaching/mentoring support
• Facilitate meetings and design workshops, testing activities, and post go live support keeping a keen eye on quality
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline work plan
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks and proactively manage said risks, including the identification of mitigation strategies
• Performs project reporting & communications (Including weekly status updates and/or Exec Steering Committee meetings)
• Manages the triple constraint (time vs. scope vs. cost)
• Plan, schedule, and manage project timelines, dependencies, and milestones using a project plan
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation including project budgets
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget

Governance & Oversight (40%)

• Provide governance, an accountability framework and oversight for all projects with significant IT involvement, assuring the project sponsors are held accountable for project success.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment to the organization’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Assure consistency in practice and reporting, and further assure transparency to all stakeholders.
• Set and enforce project standards and assure that core project elements such as organizational change management, training, support, and quality management are considered.
• Create and manage a change control process for project scope, schedule and financials that includes a change process flow enabled by change request forms, change review processes, and change oversight/approvals. Change must be tied back to the original business case and value contribution.
• Continuously evaluate projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
• Manages and controls the actual cost verses budget on periodic basis and provides financial reports/data related to the department/ divisional/ project’s financial performance.
• Develop and manage a stage gate process for projects that includes an ARB and takes a project from an expression of need to a value contribution
• Create a risk management framework that includes a risk register. Assure all risk management is conducted in an actionable fashion and takes a risk from identification, registration, monitoring, mitigation, escalation and through to reporting. Assure that a task-based approach to risk management is woven into the project plan. project intake process providing hands-on support to refine scope and complete complexity assessment and content of CBA costs before proceeding to gate 1 for funding approval.