Senior Project Manager Etisalat Abu Dhabi

Etisalat is looking to recruit a Sr. Project Manager for one of their clients. To clarify, for better management of one of their projects, the Project Manager will be working at a client site in Abu Dhabi / Dubai.

Duties Of Senior Project Manager

Project management

• Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple or large-scale projects.
• Oversees managers working on client engagements within practice.
• Reviews high-level deliverables across projects.
• Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology.
• Ensure profitable and successful execution of consulting engagements as measured by regional goals and customer satisfaction.
• Minimizes our exposure and risk across multiple projects.
• Manages scope and mitigates risk across projects.

Project Accounting

• Determines appropriate revenue recognition, ensures accurate invoicing, and monitors receivables for all projects under his/her direction.
• Integrates financial data for multiple projects.
• Compares financial data for practice to that of other practices and seeks ways to maximize revenue.
• Analyses profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects.
• Addresses elevated billing issues when they arise.

Financial Management

• Manages to and achieves revenue goals set for projects.
• Accurately forecasts revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects.
• Sets expectations upward regarding revenue and profitability projections.

What You Will Do More

Business Development

• Identifies partnership opportunities and capitalizes on “add-on” sales opportunities across projects.
• Achieves “add on” revenue goals.
• Assists in the identification of strategic accounts.
• Works in conjunction with the sales team to follow up on sales leads within practice.
• Grows long-term relationships with clients and capitalizes on equity and partnership opportunities.

Communication:

• Serves as key participant in team and client meetings.
• Raises our visibility through involvement in local industry organizations.
• Confronts issues openly and quickly.
• Effectively communicates relevant project/practice information to superiors and peers in other practices.
• Handles difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual.

Technical Understanding:

• Assists in the evaluation and redesign of practice offerings.
• Possesses a thorough understanding of our service offerings, technical preferences, and technical direction.
• Tactfully communicates sensitive information.

Leadership:

• Challenges others to develop as leaders while clarifying roles and responsibilities.
• Pursues excellence in all aspects of business.
• Possesses the expert knowledge to identify opportunities for change and the ability to convey the need for change.
• Builds expert knowledge in our industry and conveys knowledge to others.

Teamwork:

• Evokes creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas and career plans to fruition.
• Helps to determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and distribute responsibilities.
• Works across practice to share lessons learned and best practices.

Additional Responsibilities

Client Management:

• Manages day-to-day client interaction and expectations for multiple or large-scale projects.
• Anticipates clients’ needs and proposes alternative business solutions.
• Continually seeks and capitalizes upon opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
• Possesses a knowledge base of each client’s business, organization and objectives.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Define the project management process to be applied to the project.
• Select team members and, if cross-functional as the Core Team Leader, select Core Team Members.
• Prepare project plan and obtain management approval of the project plan.
• Assure that all team members understand their roles and accept their responsibilities.
• Apply project resources according to the approved project plan.
• Analyze risk and instigate avoidance activities.
• Establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating corrective action.
• Track and report on progress to plan.
• Analyze the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Keep all stakeholders informed of progress and issues.
• Involve functional expertise in design reviews and key decisions as well as risk strategies.
• Assure timely adaptive action is taken.
• Manage change to preserve business plan commitments. Initiate Phase Review if objectives must change.
• Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers.
• Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities.
• Coordinate management and technical decisions.
• Arbitrate and resolve conflict and interface problems within the project.
• Provide input on the performance of project team members to their supervisors.

Coordination of Project Activities:

• Liaison between stakeholders, to ensure they are informed and engaged.
• Technical support to local project partners.
• Project Monitoring & Evaluation.
• Coordination of Project Reporting Process.

Requirements For Senior Project Manager

The eligibility requirements for the role of Senior Project Manager are as under:

• 5+ years of experience in project management in a related field.
• BS/BA in a related field
• PMP certification is a MUST.

Skills & Knowledge Desired

• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and of project management tools.

Project Manager Etisalat Abu Dhabi

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