SM / Strategy and Project Management

Etisalat - UAE

Sharjah, UAE

Ref: HP440-289

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Principal Functions (Major Areas of Responsibility):
Responsible to organize and effectively deliver strategic programs and provides project reporting and co-ordination function to ensure that project are delivered in timely, cost-effective manner. Identify potential roadblocks and recommend opportunities to enhance operational efficiencies.

Duties & Responsibilities :
• Identify key strategic initiatives, set up and manage progress tracking, warning of risks and future issues.
• Contribute in define and reviews all policies, procedures and guidelines for Team and monitors and supervises their implementation.
• Providing timely and accurate project status updates and reporting.
• Discuss and negotiate project reporting requirements to ensure prompt and accurate project reporting with minimal rework.
• Analyze projects performance with available data to see if there are; recurring issues, roadblocks, constant delays, short cuts and inefficiencies. Recommend and implement ways to alleviate project delays and budget over run.
• Assist in ad hoc projects and initiatives that will assist to streamline the business and drive operational efficiencies.
• Presentation of reports and results in a way that will generate actionable recommendations and outcomes.
• Reports to and maintains ongoing dialogue with Regional GM and provides updates periodically about operational performance and achievement of key strategic and financial targets
• Involvement in business budgeting and forecasting activities as required from time to time.
• Monitors quality assurance measures & standards to ensure compliance with corporation practices and international standards; ensure respective functions effectively support the corporate objectives, targets, standards and procedures.
• Performs other duties, as required.

Requirements

• Candidate must have a bachelor’s degree IT / Engineering/Business
• Candidates should have a minimum of 5-6 years of experience in Telecommunications environment with Strategy and Project Management functions.

About the Company

Etisalat has been the telecommunications service provider in the UAE since 1976, and has built up a modern telecom infrastructure and established itself as an innovative and reliable operator.

Etisalat stands 140th among the Financial Times Top 500 Corporations in the world in terms of market capitalization, and is ranked by The Middle East magazine as the 6th largest company in the Middle East in terms of capitalization and revenues. The Corporation is the largest contributor outside the oil sector to development programmes of the UAE Federal Government, and is an award-winning socially responsible corporation. Etisalat has also won accolades from across the region for its nationalization programme.

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