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About the Project Manager Role

Celestial Stars Arts Academy is seeking a Project Manager to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires 5-10 years of experience and involves leading a significant multi-workstream digital transformation program. The role is hands-on and client-facing, demanding strong delivery ownership and effective coordination across multiple stakeholders, partners, and time zones.

Key Responsibilities

The Project Manager will be responsible for integrated planning, governance, and day-to-day delivery coordination, ensuring all workstreams align with agreed scope, timelines, and quality. Specific responsibilities include:

• Own the integrated project plan, milestones, and delivery schedule across all workstreams.
• Lead the overall delivery cadence, including status meetings, steering updates, and action tracking.
• Coordinate Business Analysts and consolidate workstream-level progress into a single project view.
• Act as the primary coordination point between client stakeholders, the solution provider, and the development team.
• Ensure requirements, development, testing, and business sign-offs progress in line with the project plan.
• Manage cross-workstream dependencies and resolve resource or scheduling conflicts.
• Maintain the project RAID log, covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Track scope, deliverables, decisions, and change requests, assessing their impact on timelines and resources.
• Escalate critical issues early, supported by clear impact assessments and recommended actions.
• Monitor the solution provider’s commitments, deliverables, and outstanding actions.
• Coordinate development capacity and priorities across workstreams.
• Oversee integrated testing and UAT readiness, including defect resolution and stakeholder sign-off.
• Prepare and present clear project status reports to client and internal leadership.
• Support delivery readiness, transition, and project closure activities.
• Represent the project on-site with the client and solution provider as required.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess the following qualifications and experience:

• Proven experience leading enterprise digital transformation or application delivery projects.
• Experience managing multiple parallel workstreams and distributed delivery teams.
• Strong experience coordinating external solution providers, vendors, and development teams.
• Strong understanding of requirements, development, testing, UAT, and business sign-off processes.
• Experience working with multinational and cross-cultural teams.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent project-management certification is an asset.
• Experience in procurement, finance, budgeting, or invoice-management projects is a plus.
• Public-sector transformation experience is a plus.

Essential Skills and Attributes

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

• Ability to manage project scope, timelines, resources, risks, dependencies, and change requests.
• Strong client-facing communication, governance, and stakeholder-management skills.

Work Environment and Travel

This role requires comfort working across different time zones, including regular collaboration with development teams. Frequent travel to the Middle East is also required.

Application Information

We invite qualified candidates to apply for this challenging role at Celestial Stars Arts Academy.