Project Manager - Application Operations

Job description / Role

Introduction
At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team's overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Your Role and Responsibilities

The experienced Project Manager manages key client projects.

- Project Manager oversee all aspects of projects.Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor and summarize progress of project.
- May require experience in best project management practices and business development skills to expand organizational benefits while fulfilling customer requirements.
- A wide degree of creativity and deep knowledge of technologies and products is expected. Enhance organization reputation by accepting ownership for project objectives and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Requirements

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:
- Proven ability of business development and translating customer requirement into business expansion accelerator.
- Managing and coordinating the implementation of the technical delivery activities based on the relevant project documents, including, as needed, supervision of consultants and team leads with a view to achieving project objectives.
- Monitoring the progress of implementation of project activities and key event schedules observing the work-plans and set deadlines including monitoring of the financial resources and accounting to ensure accuracy and reliability of financial reports.
- Ensuring adherence of project activities to the existing financial, procurement and administrative processes
- Participating in tender/bid process i.e. design, submission and review
- Use and continually develop leadership skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise:
- Proven ability to solve problems creatively
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
- Excellent analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful

About the Company

For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.