Specialist Digital Transformation Projects

About the Role

Marafiq is seeking a Specialist, Digital Transformation Projects to join their team in Yanbu, Eastern region. This full-time role involves coordinating and monitoring the execution of digital transformation projects, ensuring they align with approved scope, schedule, budget, governance requirements, and strategic objectives. The specialist will play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of business outcomes through these projects.

Project Coordination and Monitoring

The primary purpose of this position is to oversee and track digital transformation initiatives. This includes ensuring that projects are delivered against approved objectives, timelines, budgets, and quality standards. The specialist will be responsible for tracking progress, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, and dependencies, providing regular status updates and recommendations to stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and monitor the execution of assigned digital transformation projects to ensure delivery against approved objectives, timelines, budgets, and quality requirements.
• Track project progress, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, and dependencies, providing timely status updates and recommendations.
• Coordinate with Project Team Leaders, business units, technology teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to facilitate effective project execution and issue resolution.
• Monitor project expenditures, commitments, forecasts, and payment milestones against approved budgets, highlighting variances for corrective action.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation, dashboards, reports, presentations, and records to support governance and management decision-making.
• Apply approved project governance frameworks, methodologies, standards, and reporting requirements across assigned initiatives.
• Support Project Team Leaders in resolving project delivery constraints and identifying practical, cost-effective solutions.
• Monitor project risks and issues, maintain risk registers, and follow up on mitigation and corrective action plans.
• Support stakeholder engagement, communication, and change management activities to facilitate user adoption and realization of project benefits.
• Monitor and report on project performance metrics, KPIs, and benefits realization against approved targets.
• Coordinate vendor activities and monitor contractual deliverables to support successful project implementation.
• Maintain awareness of emerging digital technologies, project delivery practices, and industry trends, recommending improvement opportunities where applicable.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of digital transformation project management processes, tools, and practices.
• Perform any other related duties as assigned within the scope of the role.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in managing or coordinating digital transformation projects. A strong understanding of project governance frameworks, methodologies, and reporting requirements is essential.

Required Skills

• Proficiency in project coordination and monitoring.
• Ability to track project progress, risks, and issues effectively.
• Strong coordination and communication skills for engaging with diverse stakeholders.
• Competence in budget monitoring and variance analysis.
• Skill in preparing comprehensive project documentation and reports.
• Knowledge of digital technologies and industry trends.
• Problem-solving abilities to address project delivery constraints.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Yanbu, within the Eastern region. The role involves working collaboratively with various internal teams and external vendors to achieve project objectives.