Program Management Officer - SAP Expo 2020

SAP Middle East & North Africa

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP442-706

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Work Area: Solution and Product Management
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Limited Full Time

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That's why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it's the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people's lives.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

As a Premier Partner of Expo 2020 Dubai, SAP is running one of its most unusual programs. Flexibility, a high level of organization, project planning experience and a get-go attitude are paramount to working as a PMO with the SAP Expo 2020 team.

The SAP area at Expo 2020 Dubai will require careful set up, control and management. This role encompasses all responsibilities required to ensure the smooth running of the show with a particular skill set around project and people management as well as event set up and control.

The Program Management Officer answers to the Director and should be the person with the highest level of commitment and motivation to see all tasks through from start to finish.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

- Ability to coordinate with managers, clients and team members to set expectations, deliverables, and objectives
- Monitor a diverse set of teams with different skill sets towards a unified goal by guiding each member to complete their unique deliverables on time
- Implement a strategy on how project objectives can be met efficiently in the right sequence, by a diverse group of people with unique skills within project constraints (time, budget, quality, etc.)
- Ability to:
• Accurately map out talent resources, tasks, and dependencies
• Make timeline estimates and set specific and general schedules; and
• Keep everyone up to speed
• Track overall project and individual stakeholder progress up to and throughout the ev resolving conflicts and optimizing gains along the way.

Requirements

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

- Educated to Degree Level with previous experience in managing complex events and projects (minimum 3 years)
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project or equivalent
- Advanced level of English and Arabic (advantage)

TYPE OF CONTRACT

Limited contract up to 18 months

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you're searching for a company that's dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment - apply now .

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT

To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.

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