Senior Project Manager

Job description / Role

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with the Operations Director and pre-sales team to understand the project being evaluated to ensure that the successful bid will be managed successfully.
• Manage the handover process from the bidding team to the operations team to ensure the proper kick-off of the project.
• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Prepare the detailed project time plan with detailed time schedule in coordination with all stakeholders including the project manager of the client.
• Ensure that all risks are identified, and applicable action plans are acknowledged by all and ready if applicable.
• Coordinate with procurement, purchasing, and logistics all material ordering and delivery considering all logistics aspects mentioned in the contract.
• Ensure continuous and periodical communication between all stakeholders of the project to ensure that the delivery is on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Represent Jafeer in all meetings and communications with client representatives.
• Monitor the progress of the project and manage the day-to-day activities within the project to ensure successful delivery.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Ensure project revenue and cash status are matching planned for both inbound and outbound.
• Allocate resources on the project, assign work to the team, and monitor the progress of the team, ensuring that all project milestones are achieved in a timely manner.
• Manage the staff chargeability and all other project costs and expenses to ensure that they are within the budget and prepare and submit project profit/loss status reports to the Operations Director.
• Accountable for documenting the progress of the project and keeping track of the progress against planned and required milestones and submitting monthly project progress reports.

Personal skills

• Excellent organizational skills.
• Very good communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Good relationship building and excellent team player.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent command of English.
• Ability to travel frequently and relocate.

Technical skills

• PMP certification is required.
• Good software and application background.
• Cyber security knowledge is a plus.
• Very good at using MS Office and has suitable typing speed.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

About the Company

Giza Systems, a leading systems integrator in the MEA region, designs and deploys industry-specific technology solutions for asset-intensive industries such as the telecoms, utilities, oil and gas, hospitality and real estate among other market sectors. We help our clients streamline their operations and businesses through our portfolio of solutions, managed services, and consultancy practice. Our team of 1000 professionals are spread throughout the region with anchor offices in Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Doha, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Abuja, Kampala and New Jersey, allowing us to service an ever-increasing client base in over 40 countries.