Manager - Project Management - Payments

About the role

This role owns the PMO's operating model across noqodi's strategic programme portfolio: governance forums, reporting, action tracking, change control, document control and regulatory evidence. It runs the portfolio's day-to-day governance rhythm so the Senior Project Manager can focus on delivery leadership and strategic initiatives. The position is based in Dubai.

Key responsibilities

• Own the PMO governance framework (project lifecycle, stage gates, RACI, templates and reporting standards) and ensure every programme follows it
• Run the governance calendar, including programme meetings, workshops, the weekly Group CEO update and the bi-weekly SteerCos, and deliver on-time agendas, pre-reads, minutes and action logs
• Maintain the PMO dashboards and prepare ad-hoc analyses and board pack inputs
• Drive closure of open actions with internal teams and external counterparties such as banks, acquirers, card schemes and government entities
• Maintain the RAID log for each programme and track cross-programme dependencies
• Run change control (intake, logging, impact assessment, change register) and own document control, including tracking NOC, contract and counterparty onboarding submissions
• Own the evidence tracker for CBUAE outsourcing and partnership findings remediation and coordinate audit, compliance and certification packs
• Lead selected workstreams or smaller projects and support squads moving to an Agile/Scrum rhythm, tracking sprint metrics

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance or a related field
• 5-7 years in project, programme or PMO management, including at least 3 years running PMO governance or reporting for a portfolio
• Experience leading projects or workstreams end to end with internal teams and external vendors
• PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or Agile certification (e.g. PSM I) is a strong advantage
• Experience in banking, payments or fintech, and with UAE regulators or government entities, is a strong advantage
• Fluent English; Arabic is an advantage

Required skills

• Programme governance: stage gates, RAID management, change control, RACI, milestone and dependency tracking
• Agile/Scrum delivery and project tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project and SharePoint
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of payments and fintech delivery (cards, acquiring, wallets, bank and government integrations)