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About the Project Manager Role at alfanar

alfanar is seeking a Project Manager to oversee project planning, execution, and delivery. This full-time position, based in Riyadh, requires a professional with 5-10 years of experience to ensure projects are completed on time, within scope, and to the required quality standards. The role involves coordinating with stakeholders, managing risks and changes, and maintaining effective communication throughout the project lifecycle to achieve successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Defining project scope, objectives, and success criteria.
• Coordinating project activities and allocating resources effectively.
• Monitoring project execution to ensure timely delivery of outcomes.
• Engaging with and coordinating project stakeholders, managing their expectations and requirements.
• Facilitating clear communication among project teams and business owners, including conducting project meetings and tracking action items.
• Identifying, assessing, and managing project risks and issues, developing mitigation and contingency plans.
• Managing and reviewing project change requests, escalating critical items as needed.
• Monitoring project performance against approved plans and ensuring deliverables meet acceptance criteria.
• Ensuring compliance with project standards and quality requirements, tracking KPIs, and reporting progress.
• Preparing project reports, dashboards, and status updates.
• Applying approved project management methodologies and templates.
• Supporting the preparation of scopes of work and project documentation.
• Coordinating with vendors and monitoring contractual deliverables.

Role Accountabilities and Leadership

The Project Manager is accountable for the overall operation and deliverables of their projects, adhering to general company guidelines. This includes taking full responsibility for anticipating and preventing problems, making timely and proper decisions, and delivering required results with the specified quality and cost. The role requires transforming corporate goals into actionable business plans, executing these plans, and monitoring performance to initiate corrective actions. Budget and expense monitoring for optimum cost efficiency is also a key responsibility. Furthermore, the Project Manager is expected to develop the organizational structure as needed, ensure job descriptions are available and deployed, and promote business process improvements and automation opportunities. Quality is a prime competitive advantage for alfanar, and managers are expected to act accordingly. Adaptation to new techniques, technologies, and business models is essential.

Team Development and Management

This role involves proficient HR management, including the ability to recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to build a robust management pipeline. It also requires identifying low performers and guiding them towards improvement or making necessary release decisions. The Project Manager must treat all subordinates equally without discrimination, using performance that leads to planned results as the primary assessment criterion. Ensuring the availability of a delegation of authority matrix as per company policy is also required.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Business Management or any relevant field.
• 6 to 10 years of relevant work experience.

Technical and Functional Competencies

• Project Management
• Project Coordination
• Project Control
• Project Communications
• Project Change Management
• Proficiency in navigating IT solutions relevant to the job.
• Commitment to ensuring a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.