Senior IT Project Manager
Saudi Industrial Development Fund
Total years of experience :15 years, 5 Months
Impact Summary:
Responsible for managing and controlling multimillion USD project/Programs in different domains (DR, Data Centre, applications ERP, Infrastructure, RPA, Security and Software development), developing a good understanding of project objectives, a definition of the project plan, ensures that the project delivered on time, to budget and to the required SIDF PMO quality standard and best practices. Ensures the project is effectively resourced and manages relationships within all project stakeholders.
Highlights of the Role:
▪ Oversee all assigned projects through the Project lifecycle.
▪ Set vendor evaluation criteria then oversee vendor technical evaluation process against the predefined criteria.
▪ Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
▪ Manage stakeholders’ relationships and communications at all levels
▪ Effectively lead, manage, and coordinate project teams and activities.
▪ Proven quality assurance, risk management and change management expertise.
▪ Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
▪ Track project milestones and deliverables.
▪ Manage contractors and subcontractors.
▪ Develop and deliver regular progress and status reports on projects.
▪ Enhance governance control over Infrastructure, security, and application projects as per PMO framework.
▪ Keep project log and prepare assessment report on projects progress.
▪ Manage project closing and sign-off process along with developing lesson learned and vendor evaluation.
▪ Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
Impact Summary:
Responsible for developing a good understanding of company operation, identify areas of improvement within the company different process areas then provide quick wins and small enhancement projects.
Manage client relationships, define their needs and try to meet these requirements.
▪ Direct the overall operations of the facilities, staff and goods.
▪ Maintain inventory item stock levels.
▪ Maintain meetings with sales and operation teams to forecast needs.
▪ Review and approve the company’s’ budgets. Manage expenditures and vendor payments.
▪ Oversee company`s financial position and cash flows.
▪ Keep order delivery on track to meet client expectations.
▪ Provide status reports on timely manner to owner
Impact Summary:
Responsible for developing a good understanding of overall factory operation, drive a continuous improvement process, identify areas for improvement within different teams and process areas then provide rapid and strategic data driven solutions, deliver improvement quick wins and projects.
Allocating and empowering leaders in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative motivated and successful team.
Highlights of the Role:
▪ Provide factory operations leadership and operational experience.
▪ Direct the overall operations of the facilities, staff and goods.
▪ Maintain inventory item stock levels.
▪ Perform regular demand analysis and forecasting.
▪ Maintain meetings with sales and operation teams to forecast needs.
▪ Setting up inventory items minimum and maximum levels.
▪ Use levelling production to solve seasonality.
▪ Analyze manufacturing, personnel, materials, logistics, and other problems, Propose high priority corrective actions.
▪ Review and approve the plants’ operating budgets. Manage and control expenditures and variances.
▪ Manage critical functional dependencies including sales, marketing, procurement and supply chain to support integrity of S&OP, and demand/supply planning.
Impact Summary:
Responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Project Sponsor, a definition of the project. Ensures that
the project delivered on time, to budget and to the required quality standard (within agreed specifications). Ensures the project
is effectively resourced and manages relationships within all project stakeholders.
Lead functional requirements gathering process, manage the relationship between vendor consultants and company SMEs;
allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative motivated and successful team.
Highlights of the Role:
▪ Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and other
stakeholders.
▪ Provide IT project management leadership and operational support expertise.
▪ Develop and maintain a detailed project plan in addition to managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
▪ Oversee projects through the Project lifecycle from requirements gathering up to sign-off.
▪ Supervise the overall project activities, staff and resources to achieve project objectives.
▪ Recorded and managed project issues and escalating where necessary.
▪ Resolved cross-functional issues at a project level as well as managed project scope, change control and project progress.
▪ Applying the appropriate knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to manage the different project processes.
▪ Ensure that projects are always kept on track and completed on time and within budget, plus providing status reports on
timely manner to the project sponsor.
▪ Worked closely with users to ensure the project meets business needs.
▪ Definition and management of the User Acceptance Testing program supervise UAT.
Impact Summary:
Responsible for supporting Business Application Department by managing the ERP/CRM initiatives across all implementation stages starting from business analysis and requirement gathering, functional design document preparation, fit GAP analysis, UAT up to go-life support activities.
Monitoring and controlling project cost, scope and project timeline.
Highlights of the Role:
▪ Owned the life cycle of the project from initiation to close-out.
▪ Lead gathering process for functional requirements from stakeholders, developing an overall project plan, defining project scope, goals and deliverables in liaison with team members and stakeholders on an on-going basis.
▪ Perform gap analysis between system functionality and client requirements.
▪ Suggest and implement leading practices and process improvements.
▪ Delivered business value within the agreed upon schedule and budget.
▪ Planned and scheduled duties including developing project plans, monitoring and reporting status.
▪ Identified and managed issues to closure, identifying and mitigating risk.
▪ Facilitate Communication within the project team.
▪ Apply Microsoft sure step Methodology in managing the implementation and project delivery.
▪ Status reporting and achievement presentation.
▪ Manage new and existing applications, provide recommendations for improvements as necessary, in addition to providing day to day application support of issues for end users.
▪ Monitored and controlled project plan execution as per the department initiatives.
▪ Maintain agreed Service Level Agreement, monthly achievement presentation.
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