Description
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi’s airport.
JOB OBJECTIVE
• Responsible for managing the PMO function on a portfolio of services support programs, both SLAs and FOS contracts,
• To support the Project Managers with project structuring, strategy definition and implementation, progress reporting including workload, schedule updates, forecast to complete, variance identification and opportunities for improvement
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Deploy Group processes, methods and tools applicable to Project Management target Operating Model
• Consolidate non-financial data for BORs, Bid & Project dashboards
• Establish and monitor project management performance indicators appropriate to the projects within the portfolio
• Build and maintain a workload plan (for ongoing and future project activities within the portfolio)
• Coordinate risks analysis and monitor the updates throughout the project lifecycle
• Works closely with the project Contracts Manager to efficiently report performance and record issues that negatively impact the project to support claim management
• Attend Core Team/ Project reviews internal and when appropriate with Customer reviews to report on schedule updates, forecast to complete, variance identification and opportunities for improvement
• Deploy Lessons Learnt practices over the project lifecycle
• Implement Project management / Process improvement initiatives
• Maintains a positive and professional working relationship with customers
• Ensures full compliance to Company safety and quality procedures
WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
• 5 years of experience of working on large scale and multi-countries Projects
• 5 years of experience in managing Project Management Office
• Experience in large multi-discipline and entities projects is a plus
QUALIFICATION, CERTIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Minimum a Bachelor Degree or equivalent in relevant field
• Professional Qualification in Project Management
PREFERRED SKILLS
• Experience of implementing & embedding new PMO processes & governance model.
• Able to understand the baseline programme timeline and work with the project team identifying risks and issues that could impact the delivery plan
• Able to engage and motivate people.
• Provide coaching to the Project Managers in all functions of the PMO.
• Excellent verbal & written communication, presentation skills, questioning, listening and negotiating skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and a methodical approach.
• Attention to detail
• Good Time management skills
• Coordinating and updating project plans / documents
• Ability to take on responsibility and use initiative to prioritize and work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
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