Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Manager

Job description / Role

Job Details

Faithful+Gould are currently looking for a Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Manager to form part of our Project Management Consultant - Technology Department. The role will be UAE based, embedded with client organizations, with a focus on client facing delivery and implementation of Technology / Digitally Enabled Solutions. Likely clients include: PMOs / PMCs / Programme Management / Authorities & Central Planning organizations.

Core Responsibilities:

- Advise clients on suitable industry standard best practice business intelligence / digital solutions
- Evaluate and provide recommendations to improve existing business intelligence systems
- Lead business requirement workshops to identify and realise operational benefits
- Designing and developing business intelligence / digital solutions
- Configure, implement and maintain digital solutions for project management, cost management, contract documents, document management, and digital reporting.
- Identifying and implement operational efficiencies to existing processes using innovative and new technologies
- Orchestrate information from existing project management systems to provide an integrated environment
- Provide digital solutions to aggregate, present and visualise data to drive executive reporting
- Develop solutions to centralise and store data
- Develop and execute database queries and conduct analyses
- Conduct system acceptance testing activities to troubleshoot and debug deployed business intelligence solutions
- Prepare and deliver digital training to internal and external teams
- Provide support and technical administration to deployed systems and software

The Individual:

- A self-starter who needs minimal supervision to fulfill their primary role and responsibilities
- Assertiveness and technical ability to challenge proposals to achieve results
- Organised and self-motivated with a strong work ethic and an attention to detail.
- Demonstrate a logical approach to developing processes, procedures and best practice
- Ability to produce concise and technical procedures
- Ability to identify and implement continuous improvement
- Strong relationship management skills and the ability to influence others and gain their trust
- Ability to monitor compliance and to give constructive feedback
- Sensitive and accommodating of all cultures
- Ability to work under pressure and to key deadlines

Requirements

Core Requirements:

Qualifications:

- Bachelor Degree Qualified; role related (Engineering, Mathematics, Project Management, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems ), from an accredited institution.
- APM, PMI or RICS qualifications

Essential:

- 10+ years of experience in relevant field
- Excellent Project Management skills
- Experience of working on major projects / within large Programme Management Offices ( PMO's )
- Ability to provide technical direction and creative vision to highly skilled teams
- Process driven. Extensive experience of developing and implementing business systems / technical delivery processes / software and tools
- Programme level understanding of organizations; highly skilled in gap analysis and requirements capture
- Extensive Enterprise Project Management experience
- PMIS Software knowledge: Primavera, Unifier, Ares Prism, Aconex, Proliance, PM Web
- Analytical thinking; analytics, fault finding, continuous improvement
- Client facing with excellent communication skills in English language; can communicate at all levels
- Able to build relationships with software partners / vendors / developers
- Effective IT and communication skills in report writing, presentations and effective conversations.
- Highly competent in MS Excel, SharePoint, VBA, Database, Power BI, Tableau, PowerApps, System Integration
- Interest in technology and innovation

Additional Information:

- Role based in UAE, but occasional overseas travel may be required
- Position is immediately available
- Employment begins with a 3-month probationary period and successful completion is subject to client acceptance of candidates and successful UAE work visa application

Desirable:

- 5+ years of Middle East Experience
- 3+ years of United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) Experience
- Oracle University qualifications: P106-A Administration in Primavera P6
- Oracle University qualifications: Aconex
- Arabic Speaker
- UAE Resident
- UAE Driving License

Rewards and Benefits:

We offer an excellent package which includes:

- A competitive salary
- Accommodation allowance
- Transportation allowance
- 22 working days annual leave
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Assistance Programme - 24-hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants

SNC Lavalin's Faithful+Gould business is one of the world's leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients' interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting - and then developing - brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It's precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, we also have an extensive depth of geographic exposure across 50 countries and the breadth of 53,000 experts. As one of the largest engineering contractors, we have access to 17,000 staff in the Middle East making us one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies in the region.

About the Company

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.