- Location
- Dubai, One Za'abeel Tower, United Arab Emirates
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Transportation
- Seniority
- Lead
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Master
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Description
Responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent projects within a program, ensuring workstreams are aligned, integrated, and executed successfully to achieve program objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee planning, execution, governance, and delivery of multiple interconnected projects.
- Manage project interdependencies, risks, issues, and escalations across workstreams.
- Establish and maintain an integrated program roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Drive delivery excellence by monitoring milestones, budgets, quality standards, and resource utilization.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, sponsors, and project managers to ensure program outcomes are achieved.
- Facilitate decision-making and resolve cross-functional challenges that may impact delivery timelines.
- Provide regular program status updates, reporting, and performance insights to senior leadership.
- Ensure effective change management, communication, and stakeholder engagement throughout the program lifecycle.
- Promote adherence to project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and organizational standards.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize program execution and delivery outcomes.
Job Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field.
- Master's degree or MBA preferred.
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in program, project, or delivery management.
- Proven experience managing large-scale, complex programs with multiple concurrent projects and cross-functional teams.
- Experience working with executive stakeholders and driving strategic initiatives.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong program and project management expertise.
- Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, resources, risks, and dependencies across multiple workstreams.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to influence and drive alignment across diverse teams and business units.
- Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Program Management Professional (PgMP)
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Agile certifications (SAFe, Scrum Master, AgilePM)
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Skills
AgileScrumProject ManagementProgram ManagementChange ManagementPMP
