JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
- Managing the assigned digital projects within the agreed scope, budget and timeline.
- Determine timelines and key milestones for implementation and facilitate delivery
- Manage proactively against the initiative plan and changing business environment, anticipating
- and identifying issues and risks and working with initiative sponsor and initiative team to
- resolve.
- Identify any impact on or changes required and recommend and manage documentation changes.
- Ensure Project is delivered within organizational project management standards
- Ensure detailed project documentation for both functional and non-functional items (Status
- Update Dashboards, Issue Logs, Risk Logs etc)
- Pro-actively support the development teams with unblocking software development issues, using
- a hands-on approach
- Coordinate and manage efforts of the development teams, vendors and other project team
- members with respect to the deployment.
REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ Years of hands-on experience in a software development project
- Self-starter, team player and excellent attention to details
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge and experience on using some general project management tools (MS Project, Jira,
- Confluence etc)
- Confidence and strong analytical skills
- Excellent coordinator and influencer
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Knowledge of Agile Project Management Methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum.
- Domain and ecosystem knowledge for digital services such as OTT TV, video on demand
- projects, mobile apps etc.
- Experienced in working with and managing people remotely located in different time zones
- Experience working in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
ABOUT THE COMPANY
MBC GROUP is the largest media company in the Middle East & North Africa region that enriches people’s lives through information, interaction and entertainment. In 2002, nearly a decade after the launch of MBC1 in London, in 1991, MBC GROUP moved its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates.
Today, MBC GROUP includes over 17 leading TV channels: MBC1 (general family entertainment); MBC2 & MBC MAX (24-hour western movies); MBC3 (children’s edutainment with a mix of both local productions and western acquisitions); MBC4 (entertainment for young families with a female-focus); MBC ACTION (an indigenous adrenaline-packed channel targeting young males with local and homegrown productions); MBC VARIETY (Western films and general entertainment with uninterrupted broadcasting); MBC DRAMA (24/7 Arabic drama) & MBC+ DRAMA (a joint pay-TV channel between MBC and OSN); MBC PERSIA (general family entertainment dubbed and subtitled in Farsi); WANASAH (24-hour Arabic music channel); MBC MASR & MBC MASR2 (general family entertainment geared towards the Egyptian family); MBC BOLLYWOOD (delivering the freshest in Bollywood content geared towards the region via an Arabized interface); MBC USA (on “Dish Network” in the US); MBC IRAQ (a premium channel aimed at the entire Iraqi family), MBC5 (new satellite channel dedicated to the Maghreb); all of them benefit from MBC STUDIOS which produces the region’s most compelling premium content for cinema, television and on-demand platforms. MBC GROUP also includes two FM radio stations: MBC FM (Gulf music) and Panorama FM (contemporary Arabic hit music).
Furthermore, part of MBC GROUP is Shahid and its premium subscription-based service Shahid VIP, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform, home to highly rated original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive movies and premieres, as well as the top watched live Arab TV channels.
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