Project Manager - IT Projects

About the role

BlackStone eIT is hiring a Project Manager in Dubai, based on site, within its Outsource department. The role plans, coordinates and delivers IT projects according to the FTA's project governance framework, approved scope, schedule, budget, quality standards and business objectives. It manages project teams and stakeholders, monitors progress and risks, keeps project documentation and reporting, and escalates issues needing management decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Initiate and plan projects: define objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, resources, dependencies, assumptions and success measures.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, work breakdown structures, resource plans, budgets and logs of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Coordinate business owners, IT teams, vendors and other stakeholders so responsibilities are clear and decisions are timely.
• Monitor performance against approved baselines and recommend corrective actions when variances appear.
• Prepare regular status reports, dashboards, steering committee updates and escalation papers using PMO-approved templates and tools.
• Identify, assess, manage and escalate risks, issues, scope changes and blockers in line with PMO governance and change-control procedures.
• Manage vendor and outsourced team performance against deliverables, service levels, contracts, timelines and quality.
• Coordinate requirements, design, testing, user acceptance, deployment, transition to operations and project closure.
• Maintain project documentation, decisions, approvals, lessons learned and benefits-realisation data in the project management system.
• Ensure compliance with FTA policies, information security, procurement and contract processes and regulatory obligations.
• Facilitate meetings and workshops, follow up on actions, resolve conflicts and support portfolio reporting, resource planning and PMO improvement.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field.
• PMP certification from PMI, mandatory and valid.
• At least 3 years of proven experience as a Project Manager, with 8+ years overall, planning and delivering projects end to end.
• Experience managing schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, stakeholders and reporting, and coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors or outsourced teams.
• Preferred: experience with IT, digital transformation, systems implementation or enterprise technology projects; experience in a formal PMO, project governance and change-control process; knowledge of project financial management, resource planning, procurement and contract management.